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Center for Digital Narrative

Center for Digital Narrative

Humanities-driven research in electronic literature, games studies, digital culture, and computation to advance understanding of digital narrative.

CDN is a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence funded by the Norwegian Research Council from 2023-2033. CDN focuses on algorithmic narrativity, new environments and materialities, and shifting cultural contexts. We will investigate how the interactions of human authors with non-human agents result in new narrative forms, how the materiality of digital narratives have changed, and how cultural contexts are reshaping the use and function of digital narrative.

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CDN launches CELL, the Index

Combining the extensive reach of crowd-sourced platforms with the rigor of peer-reviewed academic databases to document electronic literature in Wikidata.

Off Center
Rob Wittig

Episode 24: Netprov with Rob Wittig

In the final episode of this second season of Off Center, Scott Rettberg is joined by Rob Wittig, a digital writing pioneer. Rob is an experimental writer in digital media and helped invent the genre Netprov.
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CDN is hiring: open positions

Join the Center for Digital Narrative.

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Jill Walker Rettberg

ERC wants to see what shapes the stories AI tells us

Professor Jill Walker Rettberg receives an ERC Advanced Grant to see how narrative archetypes influence the future of artificial intelligence.

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CDN Director, Scott Rettberg

The Economist on "Cyborg authorship" and collective writing

Professor Scott Rettberg comments on collaborating with machines in literature.

Norwegian Centre of Excellence

A Centre of Excellence – Senter for fremragende forskning – Funded by the Norwegian Research Council and the University of Bergen. Project no. 332643