Jill Walker Rettberg
Jill Walker Rettberg (born Jill Walker in 1971) is 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, having started her research blog jill/txt in 2000, and developed "Snapchat Research Stories" in 2017. Education and academic career. After completing an MA in Comparative Literature at the  University of Bergen in 1998, Rettberg worked for a year on a research project developing educational MOOs, and in 2003 completed a doctoral degree in Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen under the supervision of Espen Aarseth. Rettberg was hired as an associate professor at the University of Bergen after her PhD, and was promoted to full Professor of Digital Culture in 2009. In addition to her tenured position at the University of Bergen, Rettberg has been a visiting scholar at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, University of Illinois Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of  Chicago. In addition to her academic positions, Jill Walker Rettberg is a member of the Research Council of Norway's portfolio board for Humanities and Social Sciences (2019-2023), and was previously a member of Arts Council Norway's research and development committee. She co-authored the official Norwegian report NOU 2013:2 on hindrances for digital growth. Blogging and social media. With the book Rettberg examined three key modes of self-representation in social media: textual, as in blogs, visual, as in selfies, and quantitative, as in self-tracking and the growing quantitative self movement. Seeing these modes in combination  is key to understanding social media as a whole.