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Figshare for sharing academic papers with their datasets 26 Aug 2013 | 03:07 pm
My paper for Chercher le texte, the Electronic Literature Organization’s 2013 conference in Paris next month, is about ready and I’ve uploaded it to the ELO conference website and to Figshare. Figsha...
Busy start of sabbatical: joint course, e-lit exhibition, visualisation seminar, kids! 15 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm
So busy. Last week was a wonderfully fun and inspiring intensive summer class, Collaborative Creativity in New Media, with ten US and ten Norwegian students as well as wonderful faculty: Rob Wittig, J...
Follow me on Facebook instead? 5 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
With national elections coming up next month here in Norway, I’m interested in how politicians are using social media. There’s certainly a lot of activity on Facebook, and KrF’s Knut Arild Hareide is ...
Being Norwegian AND another nationality 5 Aug 2013 | 01:22 pm
I was born in Norway and have lived here for more than 35 of the 41 years I’ve been alive, but I’m still not a Norwegian citizen. You see, Norway is among the dwindling group of countries that still i...
Norwegian values 30 Jul 2013 | 05:08 pm
I would probably vote for SV if I was a Norwegian citizen and could vote in the Norwegian elections this September, as I agree with them more than I agree with most other parties, but I think Mathias ...
Dating project blogs: 40 Days of Dating 29 Jul 2013 | 06:41 pm
Blogs are a genre that work beautifully for projects with clear rules and goals that can be tracked in daily posts. Lose weight, cook everything in Julia Childs’ cookbook, stop buying things, declutte...
An offline troll 29 Jul 2013 | 03:10 pm
I arrived home from holidays to find a hand-addressed letter in the letter box. The contents weren’t so nice, though: The anonymous writer clearly took great offence at my opinion piece in Aftenposte...
Being offended at joy or grief in social media 13 Jul 2013 | 01:00 pm
I wrote an opinion piece for Aftenposten this week arguing that we need to be more tolerant of people who share personal crises – or for that matter, personal happiness – in social media. Yesterday, j...
Beginning a network analysis of creative works of electronic literature as cited in 28 PhD dissertations 5 Jul 2013 | 07:42 pm
Our research group is doing a panel at the ELO conference in Paris this September about ways we can use the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base to better understand the field of electronic lit...
Glassed-out stare: the latest in new tech anxieties 25 Jun 2013 | 11:57 am
Ian Bogost’s analysis of the “glassed out” vacant stare of Google Glass users surfing the web is particularly interesting in that it allows us to think more clearly about the now-familiar way people m...
