Jill Walker Rettberg
Jill Walker Rettberg cand.philol., dr.art. | |
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Dr. Rettberg at a panel debate at Nordiske mediedager in 2011. | |
| Born | 1971 (age 53–54) |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Other names | Jill Walker |
| Known for | blogging, social media, digital narratives |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Internet studies, Digital humanities, Science and Technology Studies |
| Institutions | University of Bergen |
| Thesis | Fiction and interaction how clicking a mouse can make you part of a fictional world (2004) |
| Website | jilltxt |
Jill Walker Rettberg (born Jill Walker in 1971) is co-director of the Center for Digital Narrative and Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. She is "a leading researcher in self-representation in social media" and a European Research Council grantee (2018–2023) with the project Machine Vision in Everyday Life: Playful Interactions with Visual Technologies in Digital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media. Rettberg is known for innovative research dissemination in social media and electronic literature having started her research blog jill/txt in 2000, and developed Snapchat Research Stories in 2017.