Born Digital: Towards A Glossary of Digital Narrative

Das BWS plus-Projekt „Born Digital: Towards a Living Glossary of Digital Narratives“ wird im Rahmen des Programms Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM für Studierende von der Baden-Württemberg Stiftung durchgeführt.

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Kurzbeschreibung

Born Digital, funded by the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung as part of the BWSplus Programme, focuses on the joint development of an online glossary of digital narrative in collaboration with the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen. The glossary will be expanded continuously by (early-career) researchers at Bergen and Stuttgart – and beyond.

Between 2023 and 2026, Born Digital offers stipends for (incoming and outgoing) MA/MEd and PhD students to support collaboration and exchange between the universities of Stuttgart and Bergen. In addition, we will organise joint (online) workshops (1) to involve a large number of students beyond the grantees, (2) to build and expand the glossary, (3) to spark and support research on digital narratives, and (4) to open up the project to interested researchers and students worldwide. 

The Living Glossary of Digital Narrative (LGDN) was launched on 14 March 2025 as part of the collaboration between the University of Stuttgart and the CDN. It is a peer-reviewed glossary that will be expanded continuously through contributions from experts across different disciplines and career stages. If you would like to contribute to the glossary, you can find more information on our guidelines here

Team

Participating researchers

Ein Bild von Prof. Dr. Sibylle Baumbach.
A picture of Prof. Dr. Scott Rettberg.

Prof. Dr. Sibylle Baumbach (Project leader)

Sibylle Baumbach is professor of English literatures and cultures. LitAttention builds on her previous research on literature, attention, and fascination as well as on her expertise in literary theory and interdisciplinary approaches to literature. She is Principal Investigator of LitAttention and focuses on developments of the short story as attention narrative (SP 2).

 

Prof. Dr. Gabriel Viehhauser

Digital Humanities, University of Vienna (gabriel.viehhauser@univie.ac.at



 

Prof. Dr. Joseph Paul Tabbi

Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen (joseph.tabbi@uib.no)

 

 

Prof. Dr. Scott Rettberg

Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen (scott.Rettberg@uib.no)

 

 

Studentische Hilfskraft

Kerstin Kurz 

Institute for Literary Studies, Department of English Literatures and Cultures, University of Stuttgart

Mail: kerstin.kurz@ilw-uni-stuttgart.de

Stipendien im Rahmen des Projekts - Go Digital at Stuttgart and Bergen!

  • Masterstudierende (MA/MEd.) und Doktorand:innen, die an der Universität Stuttgart im Bereich Literaturwissenschaft und/oder Digital Humanities eingeschrieben sind und sich für elektronische Literaturen und digitale Narrative interessieren. Ebenso vorausgesetzt wird ein Interesse an der Mitarbeit am Living Glossary for Digital Narrative.
 

Auch wenn Sie bereits an Ihrer Master-/Doktorarbeit arbeiten, können Sie sich bewerben.

  • Auslandssemester 5 Monate
  • Forschungsaufenthalte mindestens 3 Monate und maximal 5 Monate

Erfolgreiche Bewerber:innen erhalten während ihres Aufenthalts in Bergen ein Baden-Württemberg-Stipendium in Höhe von 1.100,-Euro/Monat. Das Stipendium wird finanziert durch die Baden-Württemberg Stiftung (https://www.bw-stipendium.de/de/).

Erfolgreiche Bewerber:innen werden die Möglichkeit haben zu dem Living Glossary of Digital Narratives beizutragen, einem online, öffentlich-zugänglichen Wörterbuch über elektronische Literaturen.

Stipendiat:innen können insbesondere Kurse der Abteilung Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (https://www.uib.no/en/lle/courses) belegen. Außerdem bekommen sie Zugriff auf die Ressourcen des Center for Digital Narrative (https://www.uib.no/en/cdn), können Veranstaltungen des Center besuchen und an dessen Forschungskolloquien teilnehmen. Zudem wird die Teilnahme an (online) Kolloquien und Treffen des Born Digital Projekts erwartet.

  • Motivationsschreiben (maximal 2 Seiten), aus dem Ihr Interesse an dem Bereich elektronische Literaturen hervorgeht
  • Tabellarischer Lebenslauf
  • Aktuelle Leistungsübersicht

Alle Bewerbungsunterlagen sollten auf Englisch verfasst sein. Bitte senden Sie Ihre Bewerbungsunterlagen als eine pdf-Datei an sibylle.baumbach@ilw.uni-stuttgart.de.

Deadline für Bewerbungen für Aufenthalte im Jahr 2025 ist der 01. September 2024.

Weitere Informationen zum Projekt und der Bewerbung um einen Stipendiumsplatz finden Sie hier: 

Für Studierende der Universität Stuttgart Für Studierende der Universität Bergen


Bei weiteren Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte an Prof. Sibylle Baumbach (sibylle.baumbach@ilw.uni-stuttgart.de).

Das Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM fördert den internationalen Austausch von qualifizierten Studierenden und jungen Berufstätigen. Seit 2001 konnten über 28.000 junge Menschen aus Baden-Württemberg Auslandserfahrungen sammeln bzw. junge Menschen aus dem Ausland konnten einige Zeit in Baden-Württemberg verbringen. Jedes Jahr werden rund 1.500 Stipendien im Rahmen des Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUMs vergeben.

Das Programm Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM für Hochschulkooperationen - BWS plus

Mit dem Programm BWS plus unterstützt die Baden-Württemberg Stiftung Kooperationen baden-württembergischer Hochschulen mit internationalen Partnern. Das mit jährlich ca. 1 Million Euro dotierte Programm wird seit 2011 ausgeschrieben. Seitdem wurden mehr als 130 BWS plus-Projekte an baden-württembergischen Hochschulen unterstützt.

http://www.bw-stipendium.de/

 

Sommersemester 2024

  Zeitraum des Aufenthalts in Bergen
Christin Walter Oktober – Dezember 2024
Polina Barmina August – Dezember 2024


Wintersemester 2024

  Zeitraum des Aufenthalts in Bergen
Charlotte Ammer Januar – Mai 2025

 
Sommersemester 2025

  Zeitraum des Aufenthalts in Bergen
Nadja Hieber August – Dezember 2025
Tim Schumacher August – Dezember 2025

Die Baden-Württemberg Stiftung setzt sich für ein lebendiges und lebenswertes Baden-Württemberg ein. Sie ebnet den Weg für Spitzenforschung, vielfältige Bildungsmaßnahmen und den verantwortungsbewussten Umgang mit unseren Mitmenschen. Die Baden-Württemberg Stiftung ist eine der großen operativen Stiftungen in Deutschland. Sie ist die einzige, die ausschließlich und überparteilich in die Zukunft Baden-Württembergs investiert – und damit in die Zukunft seiner Bürgerinnen und Bürger.

http://www.bwstiftung.de/

Weird Stories & Wicked Communities: A Workshop at the University of Bergen

As part of the BWSPlus Born-Ditigal project, a group of Stuttgart students and postdocs went to Bergen for a workshop at the Center for Digital Narrative to discuss ‘weird stories and wicked communities’. Many thanks to our partners in Bergen, especially to Hannah Ackermans, Scott Rettberg, and Joseph Tabbi for a fantastic event and for making us so welcome!

Gabriele de Seta (University of Bergen) kicked of Weird Stories & Wicked Communities with his keynote “On entitification: P-zombies, shoggoths, stochastic parrots and Waluigis”. In the focus were the treatment and conceptualisation of chat-bots as entities in the space of online discussion.

The panel “Technological Anxiety” included two presentations. Hanna Hellesø Lauvli’s (University of Bergen) input “From Spam to Spirit: Dead Internet Theory, Creative Practice, and the Algorithmic Self” on the evolution of spam, AI-slob and the end of useful, true or human-generated content was followed by Marianne Gunderson’s (University of Bergen) “‘Don’t worry about formalities’: Prompting as an affective genre,” which showcased her research into the so-called Eigenprompt. The Eigenprompt allows users to customize the content and style of automatically generated output, oftentimes aiming for a sarcastic imagination of a millenial’s tonality.

Following, Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang (Sydneshaugen Skole) gave his talk “The Rhethoric of Space in African Digital Literature”. Opoku-Agyemang demonstrated how authors of African Digital Literature reflect on the interplay of urban and rural spaces as well as overcome those categories and find new perspectives.

Under the umbrella of “Vernacular Creativity,” Maria Kraxenberger (University of Stuttgart) presented “Practices, Motivations, Effects of Using Online Literature Platforms: an Exploratory Survey Study”. Her research highlighted female usership, diversity in preferred genres and the double role of users as consumers and creators of online literature. During “Sims Family Sagas: Emergent Narrative Approaches to the ‘Legacy Challenge’ by Sims 2 Players” Tegan Pyke (University of Bergen) gave an introduction into narratives created predominantly by female players of the Sims 2 and the players’ interactions with their creations. Christin Walter (University of Stuttgart) closed the first workshop day with her presentation “Fanon vs. Canon: Character Centrality in Re-Imaginings of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in AU-Fanfiction”. Her preliminary findings suggest that fanfiction authors stay true to the original character dynamics even when changing spatial or temporal circumstances.

The second day started out with a peer-review workshop by Lai-Tze Fan (University of Bergen). Peer-review as an often under-represented and overlooked but also time-intensive task became the centre of attention. Fan provided attendees with helpful tips, guidelines and what to look out for when acting as peer-reviewer.

In the panel “Artificial Voices” presenters showcased how digital contexts influence the shape and meaning of communication. Lina Ruth Harder (University of Bergen) discussed how grief and a desire for closure might motivate someone to train a chat-bot on the data of a deceased relative or loved one as well as possible ethical implications in “Haunted Algorithms: Techno-Necromancy and Ghosts in the Machine”. In the talk “The ‘Weird and Wicked’ Intersection of Human and Mechanical Voices in Digital Literature” Nadja Hieber (University of Stuttgart) reflected upon how generated speech is employed by poets and what effect it might have on human listeners. Ceyda Yazici (University of Stuttgart) explored in her presentation “Shape Me: The Self-Realization of Digital Id(Entities)” different philosophical approaches for interpreting the relationship between Original Characters and their creators as well as the surrounding communities and their usage of chat-bots.

The panel “World Building” began with “Devs on Devs: Exploring Video Games about the Video Game Industry” by Daniel Johannes Rosnes (University of Bergen). He deconstructed the formula of Video Game Development Simulators and discussed how it pertains to visions of and hopes for the industry. Merve Munz (University of Stuttgart) followed with “Compu(e)ting Gods in Afşin Kum’s Kübra”, analysing the imagination of a god-like AI, its prophet and resulting cult following. In “Virtual Worlds: From Entertainment to Sociopolitical Laboratories” Svitlana Tarasova (University of Stuttgart) demonstrated how video games and their culture pick up real-world phenomena as well as surpass the medium.

The workshop ended on a high note with the launch of the Living Glossary of Digital Narratives. The LGDN aims to be a reference point for students as well as researchers and welcomes contributions by everyone interested in the crafting and study of digital narrative.

Veranstaltungen

“Launch of The Glossary of Digital Narrative”, Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen

13.03.-14.03.2025 | Call for Presentations Weird Stories & Wicked Communities  - University of Bergen, Center for Digital Narrative (https://www.ilw.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/aktuelles/news/13.-14.04--Call-for-Presentations---Weird-Stories--Wicked-Communities/). To the programme.

13.03. - 14.03.2025 | Workshop Weird Stories, Wicked Communities (Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen)

30.09. - 01.10.2024 | Workshop Digital Futures of Literature  - University of Stuttgart, KII, Room 17.23 (https://www.ilw.uni-stuttgart.de/abteilungen/englische_literaturen/veranstaltungen/digital-futures-of-literature/. To the programme.

05.02.2024 | 10:00-12:00 | „Let’s Build a City: The Encyclopedia Project as Essential Work“ – Dr. Hannah Maria Leontine Ackermans – Online (https://www.ilw.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/aktuelles/news/05.02.--Lets-Build-a-City-The-Encyclopedia-Project-as-Essential-Work---Dr.-Hannah-Maria-Leontine-Ackermans/).

28.11.2024 | 13:00-14:00 | Go Digital at Stuttgart and Bergen! - Online (https://www.ilw.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/aktuelles/news/28.11.-1300-1400--Go-Digital-at-Stuttgart-and-Bergen/).

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