New Avenues for Digital Narrative
Projects Understanding Masculinity in Gaming and AI STORIES gathers researchers who will discuss the effect of digital technology on storytelling in different ways.
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The digital affects the way we tell stories. While this fact is easily observable through computer graphics in blockbuster Hollywood films and triple-A videogames, it operates more subtly through recommendation algorithms and generative AI in online content such as news media, social media, and streaming platforms. Digital narratives thus have broad impacts on culture and society.
Organized by the Center for Digital Narrative, this symposium gathers researchers who will discuss the effect of digital technology on storytelling in different ways. The speakers will address topics spanning how people use digital media as part of their identity formation to how algorithms affect world views and storytelling within groups.
Program is subject to change.
Monday November 25
Location: Auditorium A, Sydneshaugen skole
10.00-10.20 – Opening: Welcome by professors Jill Walker Rettberg and Kristine Jørgensen
10.30-11.15 – Lin Prøitz, Professor, Østfold University College
11.15-11.30 – BREAK
11.30-12.30 – Megan Condis, Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University: Whatever Happened to GamerGate 2? Notes on a Failed Sequel
12.30-13.30 – LUNCH
13.30-14.30 – [TBA]
14.30-15.00 – BREAK
15.00-16.00 – Panel discussion, chaired by CDN Communications Officer Andreas Hadsel Opsvik
Reception at CDN, Langesgt 3, Bergen
Dinner for speakers
Center for Digital Narrative (CDN)
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.
