Hanna
@forbhanna.bsky.social
Digital Culture PhD @ University of Bergen | #algorithmicfolklore | artist | gamer | food lover | bay leaf believer | horror movie enthusiast
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New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...
open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu
July 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...
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Om humaniora og Solbergs kunnskapsforakt:
"I en tid hvor autoritære styresett fortsetter å true minoriteters rettigheter minner Spivak oss på hvor viktig humanistisk forskning har vært – og er – for frihetsbevegelser verden over, som kvinnekamp, skeives rettigheter og urfolksgrupper."
"I en tid hvor autoritære styresett fortsetter å true minoriteters rettigheter minner Spivak oss på hvor viktig humanistisk forskning har vært – og er – for frihetsbevegelser verden over, som kvinnekamp, skeives rettigheter og urfolksgrupper."
Hvorfor verden trenger flere humanister
KRONIKK: Erna Solbergs påstand om at universitetene bør utdanne færre humanister fungerer dårlig i møte med en verden som er i stadig endring.
www.forskersonen.no
June 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Om humaniora og Solbergs kunnskapsforakt:
"I en tid hvor autoritære styresett fortsetter å true minoriteters rettigheter minner Spivak oss på hvor viktig humanistisk forskning har vært – og er – for frihetsbevegelser verden over, som kvinnekamp, skeives rettigheter og urfolksgrupper."
"I en tid hvor autoritære styresett fortsetter å true minoriteters rettigheter minner Spivak oss på hvor viktig humanistisk forskning har vært – og er – for frihetsbevegelser verden over, som kvinnekamp, skeives rettigheter og urfolksgrupper."
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extremely hyped to launch ALGOpod, the official ALGOFOLK podcast, with the best possible guest for our first episode: Joan Mukogosi, who in 2019, together with Ireti Akinrinade, coined the term #algorithmicfolklore. Listen and subscribe: www.podbean.com/media/share/...
ALGOpod #1: Joan Mukogosi
In the first episode of ALGOpod, Gabriele de Seta is joined by Joan Mukogosi, where they talk about her essay "Strategic Knowledge. Teens use 'algorithmic folklore' to crack TikTok’s black box", which...
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June 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
extremely hyped to launch ALGOpod, the official ALGOFOLK podcast, with the best possible guest for our first episode: Joan Mukogosi, who in 2019, together with Ireti Akinrinade, coined the term #algorithmicfolklore. Listen and subscribe: www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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We're hiring a postdoc (4 years) for the AI STORIES project and are looking for someone who is interested in using computational and qualitative methods to explore generative AI and literature. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Literature and Generative AI at the Center for Digital Narrative (280778) | University of Bergen
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Literature and Generative AI at the Center for Digital Narrative (280778), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, June 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
May 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
We're hiring a postdoc (4 years) for the AI STORIES project and are looking for someone who is interested in using computational and qualitative methods to explore generative AI and literature. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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I HAVE NOT BEEN ANALYSING YOUR ONLINE ACTIVITY BUT I’VE NOTICED YOU HAVE A REAL KNACK FOR FINDING HIDDEN GEMS ON THE INTERNET. I’VE STUMBLED UPON THIS INCREDIBLE WEBSITE, A CURATED COLLECTION OF THE MOST FASCINATING & OBSCURE SCHOLARSHIP ON THE WEB
DISCOVER HIDDEN WONDERS
electronicbookreview.com
DISCOVER HIDDEN WONDERS
electronicbookreview.com
Front Page
digital futures of literature, theory, criticism, and the arts
electronicbookreview.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I HAVE NOT BEEN ANALYSING YOUR ONLINE ACTIVITY BUT I’VE NOTICED YOU HAVE A REAL KNACK FOR FINDING HIDDEN GEMS ON THE INTERNET. I’VE STUMBLED UPON THIS INCREDIBLE WEBSITE, A CURATED COLLECTION OF THE MOST FASCINATING & OBSCURE SCHOLARSHIP ON THE WEB
DISCOVER HIDDEN WONDERS
electronicbookreview.com
DISCOVER HIDDEN WONDERS
electronicbookreview.com
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big #algorithmicfolklore day on March 13 with 3 project members going deep into entitification, dead internet theory, and the affective weirdness of generative AI
March 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
big #algorithmicfolklore day on March 13 with 3 project members going deep into entitification, dead internet theory, and the affective weirdness of generative AI
Alternative to posting music quotes at the back of your MSN status; post quotes from texts you like:
"Because they love the pixel, not the hero. The hero is dead. Long live the thing."
Steyerl, Hito. 2010. A thing like you and me. e-flux journal, 15(4), 1-7.
"Because they love the pixel, not the hero. The hero is dead. Long live the thing."
Steyerl, Hito. 2010. A thing like you and me. e-flux journal, 15(4), 1-7.
February 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Alternative to posting music quotes at the back of your MSN status; post quotes from texts you like:
"Because they love the pixel, not the hero. The hero is dead. Long live the thing."
Steyerl, Hito. 2010. A thing like you and me. e-flux journal, 15(4), 1-7.
"Because they love the pixel, not the hero. The hero is dead. Long live the thing."
Steyerl, Hito. 2010. A thing like you and me. e-flux journal, 15(4), 1-7.
The fact that the term [online] spam comes from (a Monty Python skit about) the meat-product Spam will forever be one of my favorite fun facts.
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The fact that the term [online] spam comes from (a Monty Python skit about) the meat-product Spam will forever be one of my favorite fun facts.
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ALGOFOLK is on Substack, you should subscribe for regular #algorithmicfolklore updates: algofolk.substack.com/p/algorithms...
Algorithms ⇆ Folklore
Welcome to the ALGOFOLK project. Subscribe for updates on crungus infestations, hallucinated fingers, shoggoths with smiley faces, glorbos, and other algorithmic entities.
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January 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
ALGOFOLK is on Substack, you should subscribe for regular #algorithmicfolklore updates: algofolk.substack.com/p/algorithms...
Unfortunately you can't escape the materialities of life
January 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Unfortunately you can't escape the materialities of life
I feel like there must be a correlation between how long someone takes in character creation and how long it takes them to name a paper.
January 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I feel like there must be a correlation between how long someone takes in character creation and how long it takes them to name a paper.
Home Alone 2 is a horror movie.
December 14, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Home Alone 2 is a horror movie.
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the internet sucks in part because no one makes their own personal websites anymore aftermath.site/website-musk...
For Love of God, Make Your Own Website - Aftermath
The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now I usually end up at the same three or four websites.
aftermath.site
November 27, 2024 at 5:15 PM
the internet sucks in part because no one makes their own personal websites anymore aftermath.site/website-musk...
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We’re organising a PhD summer school at the Centre for Digital Narrative here in Bergen (@cdn-bergen.bsky.social) 10-14th June - here’s some early info, the full call for participation will be out by December 20th! www.uib.no/en/cdn/17442...
CDN Digital Narrative PhD Summer School
Save the date – 10-14 June 2025.
www.uib.no
November 27, 2024 at 3:48 PM
We’re organising a PhD summer school at the Centre for Digital Narrative here in Bergen (@cdn-bergen.bsky.social) 10-14th June - here’s some early info, the full call for participation will be out by December 20th! www.uib.no/en/cdn/17442...
New hobby unlocked: Asking AI to create prompts to uncover itself. Digital void or human-like figure? Results may vary.
November 20, 2024 at 10:52 AM
New hobby unlocked: Asking AI to create prompts to uncover itself. Digital void or human-like figure? Results may vary.
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We were never on Twitter, but we are here now (as well as other places)!
Let us open with central CDN theme, algorithmic narrativity:
"Algorithmic narrativity describes … the idea that storytelling is no longer the exclusive domain of human beings."
www.uib.no/en/cdn/17090...
Let us open with central CDN theme, algorithmic narrativity:
"Algorithmic narrativity describes … the idea that storytelling is no longer the exclusive domain of human beings."
www.uib.no/en/cdn/17090...
What is algorithmic narrativity?
Stories are no longer exclusively a human domain.
www.uib.no
November 18, 2024 at 1:54 PM
We were never on Twitter, but we are here now (as well as other places)!
Let us open with central CDN theme, algorithmic narrativity:
"Algorithmic narrativity describes … the idea that storytelling is no longer the exclusive domain of human beings."
www.uib.no/en/cdn/17090...
Let us open with central CDN theme, algorithmic narrativity:
"Algorithmic narrativity describes … the idea that storytelling is no longer the exclusive domain of human beings."
www.uib.no/en/cdn/17090...
My goal for 2025 is to step out of the shadows as a long-time lurker (of everything) and actually start posting things. Consider this my head start.
November 17, 2024 at 10:59 AM
My goal for 2025 is to step out of the shadows as a long-time lurker (of everything) and actually start posting things. Consider this my head start.
Want to make a digital Ouija board to talk to "the algorithm"
November 17, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Want to make a digital Ouija board to talk to "the algorithm"