If you're wondering what ALGOFOLK is up to, check out the first edition of our lexicon here!

胡子哥@notsaved.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the first edition of the #algorithmicfolklore lexicon is out!!! Free download here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Next up at #CDNequinox the Algofolk project explains how they collect and document algorithmic folklore yakng an Obsidian Vault.x @notsaved.bsky.social @mareinna.bsky.social Hanna Lauvli and Yagmur.

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...

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."

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.

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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/...

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

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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

Front Page

digital futures of literature, theory, criticism, and the arts

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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

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.

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.

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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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.

Home Alone 2 is a horror movie.

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

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.

uib.no

New hobby unlocked: Asking AI to create prompts to uncover itself. Digital void or human-like figure? Results may vary.

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...

What is algorithmic narrativity?

Stories are no longer exclusively a human domain.

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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"