Jill Walker Rettberg

Current
  • Associate Professor at University of Bergen
  • Freelance speaker and writer at Jill Walker Rettberg (Sole Proprietorship)
  • Blogger at jill/txt (Sole Proprietorship)
Past
  • Researcher at Lingo project, University of Bergen
Education
  • Universitetet i Bergen
  • Universitetet i Bergen
  • Universitetet i Stavanger
  • Universitetet i Bergen
  • Bergen Katedralskole
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Industry
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Jill Walker Rettberg’s Summary

I research the ways we tell stories online, and have studied hypertext fiction, weblogs, World of Warcraft, MOOs, electronic literature and spam fiction. My book, Blogging, just came out on Polity Press and an anthology of critical essays about World of Warcraft I co-edited was published by MIT press earlier this year. I frequently give talks about blogs, electronic literature and the web.

Jill Walker Rettberg’s Specialties:

Blog research, new media research, narratology, teaching with blogs, lectures on blogs and new media.


Jill Walker Rettberg’s Experience

  • Associate Professor

    University of Bergen

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    January 2003Present (5 years 11 months)

    Research on networked literature and art, weblogs. Advisor to post grad students, teach lower and upper level courses in subjects including Digital Media Aesthetics, ICT & Learning, Web Design, Digital Culture.

  • Freelance speaker and writer

    Jill Walker Rettberg (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)

    January 2002Present (6 years 11 months)

    I give talks at seminars, conferences and internal workgroups on topics within the general field of current digital culture. I have given talks on corporate blogging to Microsoft Norway, Chess Communications and the Norwegian Advertisers' Union, and I have lectured on blogs, social software and electronic literature for groups of librarians, literature and media teachers, artists and the general public. Additionally, I write reviews and other popular articles within these areas.

  • Blogger

    jill/txt (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

    October 2000Present (8 years 2 months)

    I was one of the first academic bloggers, and still use my blog jill/txt (http://jilltxt.net) to publish work-in-progress, research notes, ideas, probings and the occasional personal note. I have also published various academic articles on blogging, including a much-cited definition of weblogs for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory and a book simply titled "Blogging" to be published by Polity Press in 2008.

  • Head of Department

    Dept of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    February 2005June 2007 (2 years 5 months)

    Coordinate teaching for department, responsible for hiring short-term staff, manage research and initiate and encourage projects, responsible for department's budget, coordinate strategic planning for department.

  • PhD Fellowship

    University of Bergen

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    January 2000December 2002 (3 years)

    PhD. Thesis: "Fiction and Interaction: How Clicking a Mouse Can Make You Part of a Fictional World".

  • Visiting Scholar

    RMIT University

    (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    June 2000June 2002 (2 years 1 month)

    Visiting scholar at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology for a month at a time on several different occasions 2000-2002.

  • Researcher

    Lingo project, University of Bergen

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

    January 1999December 1999 (1 year)

    Research and implementation of courseware for teaching English literature in online collaborative environments (MOOs). http://lingo.uib.no/dream/


Jill Walker Rettberg’s Education

  • Universitetet i Bergen

    Dr. art., Humanistic Informatics, humanistisk informatikk, 20002002

  • Universitetet i Bergen

    Cand. philol., Comparative Literature, 19951998

  • Universitetet i Stavanger

    Høgskolekandidat, Kultur- og mediefag, 19931995

    University College of Stavanger, now the University of Stavanger.

    Activities and Societies:
    Journalist for Hugin.
  • Universitetet i Bergen

    Cand. mag., Comparative Literature and Theatre Studies (mellomfag litt. vit., grunnfag teatervit.), 19911993

    Activities and Societies:
    Studentradioen, StudVest, Prosopopeia.
  • Bergen Katedralskole

    19871990

    Activities and Societies:
    SOS Rasisme, Elevrådet, RadioAktiv.

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Jill Walker Rettberg’s Websites:

Jill Walker Rettberg’s Groups:

Association of Internet Researchers, Digital Arts and Culture, SigWEB, Electronic Literature Organization, Kritikerlaget, Forskerforbundet, Chicago Metaverse Meetup

  •    ACM sigWeb
  •    Cross Media Experts (crossmediaexperts.ning.com)

Jill Walker Rettberg’s Honors:

The Meltzer Foundation's Prize for Excellence in Dissemination of Research, 2006.
The Inaugural Ted Nelson Newcomer Award for Best Paper by a Newcomer, ACM Hypertext 1999.


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