Research Areas
Our main research areas are
- Digital Textuality, including electronic literature and digital art and aesthetic aspects of computer games
- Historical and Critical Perspectives on Technology, including the history of computing, gender and technology, social and cultural aspects of computer games and the ethics and philosophy of computing
- ICT and Learning
The Digital Culture Research Group is currently led by Daniel Apollon.
Study Digital Culture?
You may also be interested in courses taught in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. Many of our courses are closely connected to our research, and most courses are taught in English.
Researching Digital Culture
The Digital Culture Research Group gathers researchers and post-graduate students from different humanities disciplines who share an interest in studying how technology and culture interact. Members work on topics related to cultural and aesthetic aspects of our use of social, digital technologies. Most of the researchers are shown in this photo: Jill Walker Rettberg, Rolf Beev, Daniel Apollon (leader), Patricia Tomaszek, Scott Rettberg, Daniel Jung, and in front, Kolbjørn Slethei, Hilde Corneliussen, Silje Hommedal and Eric Rasmussen. Myriam Coco was not present when the photo was taken.
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News
Digital Culture Welcomes our 2012/13 Fulbright Scholar, Leonardo Flores
Coming from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Leonardo Flores will spend a year in Bergen, combining teaching and research.
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News
HERA funds UiB-led project on Creativity in Electronic Literature
UiB's Scott Rettberg is to lead a major European project exploring the emerging field of electronic literature as a networked, creative community.
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Collaborative Networked Art and Literature at Landmark and UiB
Letters dancing on the walls, computer-interpreted voices represented on the screen, projected haikus created from phrases in today's newspapers - these are just a few of the performances shown at our conference this November.
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News
Short video lecture on blogging and learning available
Blogging can help you to gain confidence, practice writing, and participate in networks of other learners. How can you help students to use blogs so that they also learn these things?
Conference
The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice
8.11.2009 - 10.11.2009
News
- Short video lecture on blogging and learning available (07.08.2012)
- HERA funds UiB-led project on Creativity in Electronic Literature (05.01.2010)
- Collaborative Networked Art and Literature at Landmark and UiB (10.11.2009)
- Virtual Role-Playing in Training Language Teachers and in Research (24.08.2009)