"Four Theses on #AlgorithmicFolklore" just out, which concludes the theory-building efforts planned for the first half of the ALGOFOLK project

I’m speaking about the Narrative Nubs project (to reimplement story generators from decades past) at the upcoming, online ELO conference. Join the ELO to attend; there’s no other fee. My talk’s in the Thu July 16 10:30am-11:30am session. stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/comb...

Very much looking forward to my virtual flight with @sebomat.bsky.social!

If you're wondering what ALGOFOLK is up to, check out the first edition of our lexicon here!

This is a fantastic opportunity: a Fulbright fellowship with the Center for Digital Narrative (@cdn-bergen.bsky.social) at the University of Bergen in Norway. Apps due by September 15!

come to Bergen fulbrightscholars.org/award/digita...

After more than a year of careful planning, we are happy to announce that our Interdisciplinary Network for Research on Gender and Games (GG) is now open to new members. www4.uib.no/en/research/...

current status of the #algorithmicfolklore archive

Kom og jobb med meg! Dette er et rått prosjekt med veldig hyggelige folk på en utrolig bra arbeidsplass! Lik og del!

This spring Alinta Krauth and Jason Nelson held four virtual events on meetings between art, science and technology in cooperation with Leonardo. These Leonardo LASER talks are now available here: www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Brenn du for korleis historier formar måten vi ser og forstår data rundt oss? Vi søkjer ein stipendiat i narrativ datavisualisering hos CDN, tilknytt @jilltxt.bsky.social sitt #ERC-prosjekt #AIStories og VisGroup på institutt for informatikk: www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige... @erc.europa.eu

New on the AI Update: Da Pope! Jhave and I talk about the Pope's encyclical on AI: Magnifca Humanitas. And we train Claude to answer ethical questions on the Pope's behalf, and then hear from Claude itself: open.spotify.com/episode/3jE2...

CDN’s Pride event has started!! First up is Joakim Johansen Østbye about queer gaming experiences in Norway. If you’re in Bergen we’re at Kvarteret (Pride House!) until about 21:00.

I‘m happy to announce this talk by @jilltxt.bsky.social from the @cdn-bergen.bsky.social at Freie Universität Berlin on July 7th 2026: „Dangerous Narration. The rhetorical vices of AI-generated stories“ – www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we03/institu...

Queer Games and AI Resistance with Joakim Johansen Østbye, Oliver @haimson.bsky.social, Daniella Gatí and CDN researchers in #BergenPride tomorrow, June 2nd, 18.30-21.00: www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Next week I'm speaking as part of this Bergen Pride event on Queer Games and AI Resistance. Looking forward to being in conversation with co-panelists Daniella Gati and Joakim Johansen Østbye. Thanks to @jilltxt.bsky.social for the invitation! www4.uib.no/en/research/...

It was quite surprising to read the Pope’s encyclical and find it is basically an STS or media studies textbook.

I strongly recommend going somewhere you're not from for a while and talking to people who are from there

While it was a bit silent here for iGGi in recent months - not for long! Watch this space for news about the next iGGi Conference!! But first, here's 1 thing we got up to this spring: Research Exchange with the Center for Digital Narrative in Bergen, Norway READ ON 👇 www.iggi-phd.org/news/norway-...

The deadline for submissions for the XDN After Virtual Reality: Extending Immersive Narrative Symposium has been extended to May 31st! www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Today is release v1.0 of Narrative Nubs — Story generators based on systems from the past 65+ years, capturing essentials, as in “the nub of the argument.” GESTER, Story Machine, TAILOR, and “Through the Park” nubs are ready for research, teaching, creative practice. codeberg.org/nickmontfort...

New dataset published: this is the audio + transcripts of AI-generated podcasts using NotebookLM to analyse how it "translated" source documents from different times and cultures. My favourites are the 20 podcasts generated from an empty PDF. The paper about it is in press. doi.org/10.18710/RNT...

73 years after Roald Dahl warnings and Christopher Strachey's generated love letters, @newyorker.com asks what about AI slop is actually new. Featuring quotes from CDN's @docmofo.bsky.social and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's OUTPUT book: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Genre glitching: a new sign of AI-assisted writing? Thanks to @doremus-schafer.bsky.social and @srettberg.bsky.social who shared the two examples of this that I discuss in today's blog post. Please please please send me any other examples you see of this! jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...

Yes this is what we research in the AI STORIES project at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social! Except. You know. That training data isn't exactly just sci fi stories. But rather *all* the stories

retts.net/works.html In progress -- a major overhaul of my web archive of creative work, including both refurbished versions of old work such as the hypertext fiction Meddlesome Passenger (2002) and the poetry generator Frequency (2009), which now runs in the web browser and newer work. More soon.

Deadline approaching, a week left of the call for the 2027 CDN Guest Researcher #Fellowship. We are funding a 3 month stay with us Spring next year for a researcher employed full-time at a university outside of #Norway. Apply by May 15th: www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Coming up tomorrow: #BornDigital Workshop on #ImaginariesOfTheFuture! Very much looking forward to welcoming our guests from @cdn-bergen.bsky.social as well as @astridensslin.bsky.social who will deliver the keynote tomorrow morning. Do join us in K2, 17.23, Keplerstr. 17! lnkd.in/dqvcKF6F

After reading @bildoperationen.bsky.social's thread about Heimatstrom's AI-generated pro-clean energy images, I had to write a blog post comparing their satirical fascist aesthetics to the equally AI-generated but more earnest aesthetics of Norwegian Dieselbrølet. jilltxt.net/ai-generated...

If you're interested in applying for an MSCA postdoc with us here at the Center for Digital Narrative, read this and submit a statement of interest before May 1st! We'll get back to you within a week or so after that :) www4.uib.no/en/research/...

new ALGOpod episode with @drryder.bsky.social on Sri Lankan influencer activism, internet shutdowns, and small platform ethnography open.spotify.com/episode/56Io...

Where an idea is believed to come from matters. And when those origins are obscured, things get really interesting. That's the basis of my latest *open access* chapter, 'The Obscurity of Origins in Reality Formation: Slender Man and Digital Mythology'.

Come stay with us! We're nice, and we will provide you with an umbrella!

In March, Lina Ruth Harder from UiB's Center for Digital Narrative @cdn-bergen.bsky.social discussed how generative image systems produce convincing visions of history and why these images matter for research, teaching and public memory: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-TE...

#algorithmicfolklore is wild, man

When @kishonna.bsky.social visited CDN, she shared her feelings about "Synthetic Kishonna", a generic AI clone of herself. In our new podcast, she and @jilltxt.bsky.social discuss how this "distillation of blackness" erases her real identity. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/7ETb... 🎙️

Im wearing my invisibility sweater in Morgenbladet’s long article about surveillance and Meta’s glasses. www.morgenbladet.no/kultur/overv...

brainrot materials algofolk.substack.com/p/the-materi...

I couldn't resist

Hanna Lauvli inyroduces the first panelists: Tom Legierse and @mikkomerilainen.bsky.social are speaking about Men, Masculinities and Feminist Gaming Futures.

@srettberg.bsky.social welcomes the crowd to CDN Equinox, our semiannual open research day.

It's my turn to cook Wednesday lunch at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social today. I'm making carrot and lentil soup with bread from Godt Brød. Taking turns cooking for each other been one of the best community-building things we've done at CDN. Sharing homemade food is good for us. Oh, we have talks too!

Are you interested in being a guest researcher at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social in the spring of 2027? Apply for our Fellowship! Funds cannot cover salary, but cover extra costs associated with spending a semester abroad for people with PhDs in full time jobs. Deadline 15 May. www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Om éi veke held vi open dag i #Bergen med CDN Equinox, kom for å høyre om noko av det vi held på med: www4.uib.no/en/research/...

new ALGOpod episode with Santtu Raisanen discussing "convenience content" and other absurdities of algorithmic culture (subscribe to the official @cdn-bergen.bsky.social podcast Off Center!) open.spotify.com/episode/2AQ0...

Our next Critical AI Theory Reading Group meeting is coming up on Tuesday at noon Norway time. We're reading @ryanheuser.com's paper doi.org/10.22148/001... - if you've read the paper and want to discuss it, join us in the glass house at CDN.

Deadline to apply is March 11! Come to this self-directed September residency at Banff w/ me, @lillianyvonne.bsky.social & Kalen Iwamoto www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

🚨 It's publication day! 🚨 My latest article has been published in the Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds! 'What went wrong with Cities: Skylines II, according to players: How players understand game development in the context of a poor digital game launch'.

new ALGOpod episode with Anya Shchetvina (@anya-shchetvina.bsky.social) going deep into the history of internet manifestos open.spotify.com/episode/5N0r...

I'm one of five who has each written briefly on this topic for LARB https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/artificial-intelligence-literary-future-chatgpt-large-language-model