Nina Lager Vestberg
@lagernina.bsky.social
Professor of visual culture @ NTNU Trondheim | Media, Data, Museums | Author of Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization @ MIT Press 2023 | Campuslivet (akademisk nyhetsbrev på norsk): campuslivet.substack.com
Meta never fail to answer their founding question: “how can we use tech to embolden and empower creeps?”
TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using Meta 'smart glasses'
The "content maker" published videos of encounters with young women and a female Sikh shop worker where he talked of a plot to "breed out the white race".
bbc.co.uk
1/ Information literacy has a confidence problem. We often teach novices to “evaluate the evidence” as though a checklist can turn them into temporary experts.
Jeg kunne lagt til: erkjenn at du neppe får jobb i akademia, og kjenn etter om du fortsatt er motivert.
Så du tror du vil ta doktorgrad? 7 vinnerlodd i årets lotteri der jeg jobber! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Up to 7 PhD Research Fellow Positions (304877) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: Up to 7 PhD Research Fellow Positions (304877), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Thursday, October 1, 2026
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Dette er så nær jeg noen gang vil komme en "gratitude journal" – en liste over ting som ikke er prestasjoner eller resultater, men som likevel har gitt meg glede i jobben dette semesteret 🙏 Anbefales for alle som føler seg bakpå før ferien! www.campuslivet.no/hva-har-gjor...
"After all, what is a university? Clearly not the students; they pass through like mayflies, eating, breeding, failing to do the reading and not bringing us enough money. Academic staff? They too are ephemeral, and a drain on our income streams." Read the whole thing 🔥
Neville Morley@nevillemorley.eurosky.social · last mo.Why are you concerned? Do you not trust your senior management team? Do you not love us? thesphinxblog.com/2026/06/24/t...
The only thing worse than summarising other people's research is summarising my own research. (I suspect I have to write chapter-by-chapter summaries of this thesis I'm examining because the college wants to ensure I have read all of them, and right now I find that professionally offensive.)
Anyway, the last interesting thing here is the way he describes his daughter as a General Purpose Nerd, and I think what he's describing here is probably a person with a humanities degree who has high levels of autonomy and confidence - which is exactly the thing people are no longer educated for
NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet
Get with the times — here's what a 'Luddite' means today
It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.
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My latest publication, open access in the Live Handbook Environmental Humanities. link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/... #OpenAccess #EnvHum #FilmStudies #TelevisionStudies
Environmental Film and Television Studies
Environmental Film and Television Studies encompasses a set of interdisciplinary scholarly practices designed to foreground ecological issues in film and television. Drawing on approaches from across ...
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Jeg mener... 🙄 "Regjeringen bytter ut høyere utdanning med innovasjon" www.universitetsavisa.no/forskning-ho...
Regjeringen bytter ut høyere utdanning med innovasjon
Når det presenteres en ny langtidsplan for sektoren neste år, er fokuset på høyere utdanning byttet ut med fokus på innovasjon.
universitetsavisa.no
Reading this thread I simply cannot fathom the speed with which some scholars *resign* their vocation the moment the option to defer to AI arises. I fought many years for the privilege to write and teach. Even if AI *could* do my job (it can’t) they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands
Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
Kom og jobb med meg! Dette er et rått prosjekt med veldig hyggelige folk på en utrolig bra arbeidsplass! Lik og del!
Center for Digital Narrative@cdn-bergen.bsky.social · 2mo agoBrenn du for korleis historier formar måten vi ser og forstår data rundt oss? Vi søkjer ein stipendiat i narrativ datavisualisering hos CDN, tilknytt @jilltxt.bsky.social sitt #ERC-prosjekt #AIStories og VisGroup på institutt for informatikk: www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige... @erc.europa.eu
Til alle som hele tiden snakker om tidsbesparelser: "Vi har ikke sett betydelige tidsbesparelser. I noen situasjoner gir KI raskere oppstart, men behovet for gjennomgang og kvalitetssikring reduserer ofte den sparte tiden, og kan i enkelte tilfeller føre til merarbeid."
Jill Walker Rettberg@jilltxt.bsky.social · 2mo agoDo you know of studies that actually evaluate use of LLMs in the public sector or other kinds of knowledge work? Teknologirådet in Norway just published a report evaluating their own use of LLMs, based on careful logs from 35 cases. teknologiradet.no/publication/...
“SpaceX's IPO… is almost certain to be the biggest in history. I've mostly heard that framed as a business story… but here on the Gulf Coast, the SpaceX story has always been about the land.”
Poor Man's Beach
The biggest IPO in history is also about what the Gulf Coast should be [The weekender: 06.05.26]
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"Den viktigste begrunnelsen for medvirkning ved et universitet er ikke at ansatte skal føle seg hørt. Den viktigste begrunnelsen er at beslutningene blir bedre når relevant kunnskap trekkes inn før de fattes." www.universitetsavisa.no/ansatt-ledel...
Derfor har jeg endret syn på valgte ledere ved NTNU
Jeg trodde tidligere at bedre styring først og fremst handlet om tydeligere ledelse. I dag tror jeg at bedre styring først og fremst handler om å bygge institusjoner som gjør det mulig å oppdage egne ...
universitetsavisa.no
Subskeeting MIT news but it could be any number of places. 📚
Många goda poänger här. Jag skulle jättegärna vilja göra en undersökning av människor som fått lämna akademin. Jag tror att de har mycket att säga om forskningens villkor som många framgångsrika forskare inte förstår.
Forskning & Framsteg@fof.se · 2mo agoUnder de senaste sex åren har över tusen forskare vid svenska lärosäten blivit av med jobbet. Orsaken är ett allvarligt systemfel, skriver oceanografen och klimatforskaren Léon Chafik. ⬇️ vist.ly/55ut2
Update: now I'm wondering what the prevalence of refs to Stuart Hall and Jürgen Habermas in media studies BA dissertations can tell us about LLMs. How stochastic is that parrot?
Nina Lager Vestberg@lagernina.bsky.social · 3mo agoAmazing how much Marx and Gramsci the media studies undergrads are able to drop in casual into their dissertations these days. Very much looking forward to our in-depth discussions during the accompanying oral examinations!
EdTech: rich kids get humans poor kids get tech EdTech: you’re welcome
Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3mo agoWith the caveat that tech exists that is very helpful to students with disabilities and their teachers, the headline here tells the story of AI mania in schools: AI is being deployed in lieu of what kids need: teachers who have appropriate workloads because the profession can attract enough talent.
They’re at it again. None of this is valuable historical research. It’s about exploiting historical artifacts and historians to develop computer vision further and to make a soft cultural argument for surveillance tech. This nonsense has been going on since c2010.
New dataset published: this is the audio + transcripts of AI-generated podcasts using NotebookLM to analyse how it "translated" source documents from different times and cultures. My favourites are the 20 podcasts generated from an empty PDF. The paper about it is in press. doi.org/10.18710/RNT...
A dataset of AI-generated podcasts created using NotebookLM
Audio files and transcripts of AI-generated podcasts created using Google's NotebookLM. Four podcasts were created by uploading specific PDFs. Twen...
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Amazing how much Marx and Gramsci the media studies undergrads are able to drop in casual into their dissertations these days. Very much looking forward to our in-depth discussions during the accompanying oral examinations!
Vil du jobbe med digital forskningsstøtte ved OsloMet *OG* jobbe med et av verdens beste mennesker (dvs @supercamilla.bsky.social)? Universitetsbiblioteket ved OsloMet har ledig to stillinger som seniorrådgiver ved seksjon for forskningsstøtte:
Camilla Holm Soelseth@supercamilla.bsky.social · 3mo agoBli min kollega!
Kunne ikke vært mer enig. Derfor jeg alltid har bedt studenter tenke seg godt om før de går for spørreskjema som innsamlingsmetode på bachelor. Det gir sjeldent noe bra
Spørreskjema gir en illusjon om måling
Spørreskjemaet har lenge vært en bærebjelke i forskning på mennesker. Har metoden blitt en snarvei som gir mer trygghet enn innsikt? spør Sigve Høgheim og Eirik S. Jenssen.
forskerforum.no
In addition, Family Search frequently utilizes prison labor to digitize materials they make available so it's just a turducken of exploitation activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...
Who Digitized Your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives
Kristen C. Howard In today’s increasingly online world, historians, researchers, and students want and expect online access to historical documents offered by galleries, libraries, archives, and mu…
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis@caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3mo agoRecently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
DHKO is now an official associated partner of MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity! This partnership comes with the opportunity for DHKO members to join MishMash work packages and weekly webinars (MeshUps), for those who would like to become more involved. mishmash.no
MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity
A Norwegian AI centre funded by the Research Council of Norway (2025-2030)
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Så denne saken om dodgy printer-virksomhet på Oslomet og tenkte umiddelbart på @supercamilla.bsky.social 👀 www.khrono.no/oslomet-inng...
OsloMet inngår forlik etter ulovlig printeravtale
OsloMet inngikk ny printeravtale, samtidig som universitetet var bundet av en statlig fellesavtale. Nå er forlik inngått og den ulovlige avtalen terminert.
khrono.no
I'm sure there's a lot to be learnt from handwashing clothes, but I'm delighted by the privilege of having a washing machine, of the time that creates, and I'd never want to roll that back. But it's an efficiency event, not an end-to-end system. My washing machine doesn't also choose what I wear
