{"id":20243,"date":"2025-02-17T10:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T09:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordmedianetwork.org\/?post_type=news&p=20243"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:56:38","slug":"jill-walker-rettberg-annette-markham-and-kim-schroder-to-take-the-stage-as-keynote-speakers-at-nordmedia25","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nordmedianetwork.org\/de\/latest\/news\/jill-walker-rettberg-annette-markham-and-kim-schroder-to-take-the-stage-as-keynote-speakers-at-nordmedia25\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Walker Rettberg, Annette Markham and Kim Schr\u00f8der to Take the Stage as Keynote Speakers at NordMedia25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is with great pleasure that we announce Jill Walker Rettberg, Annette Markham and Kim Christian Schr\u00f8der as the keynote speakers for the upcoming NordMedia25 conference in Odense. “We are beyond excited to have this outstanding trio delivering the keynotes, and can\u00b4t wait to see their take on the conference theme“<\/em> say Susana Tosca and Lene Heiselberg, co-chairs of the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The opening keynote will take the form of a dialogue between Jill Walker Rettberg and Annette Markham, offering a thoughtful exchange to kick off the conference. Kim Schr\u00f8der will deliver the closing keynote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a moment to get to know all the speakers. Details of the talks will be announced later this semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jill Walker Rettberg, 2023. Photographer: Eivind Sennesvik\/UiB.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n


Jill Walker Rettberg<\/a><\/strong> is Professor of Digital Culture and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative<\/a> at the University of Bergen. She leads the project AI STORIES: Narrative Archetypes of Artificial Intelligence, which is funded by an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. From 2017-2024 she led an ERC Consolidator project on Machine Vision, looking at how it is represented and used in video games, digital art, movies and novels. Jill’s books include Machine Vision: How Algorithms are Changing the Way We See the World (Polity 2023) and Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves (2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Annette Markham<\/strong><\/a> is Chair Professor of Media Literacy and Public Engagement in the department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University, Netherlands. She holds a PhD in organizational theory (Purdue University, 1997), with special emphasis on interpretive qualitative methods. She has been researching the impact of digitalization on identity and organizing practices since 1995 and now holds specializations in the lived experience of human\/machine interactions, impact of datafication and algorithmic logics on social practices, and critical approaches to digital and algorithmic identity. She also studies research methodologies to devise ethical models for speculative, mixed-method, ethnographic, and multi-entity research design. Methods specializations include guided digital autoethnography, critical pedagogy, arts-based interventions, citizen social science, digital and data literacy through critical pedagogy, and digital ethnography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Annette co- founded and directed the international Masters degree program in\u00a0Digital Living<\/a>\u00a0at Aarhus University from 2013-2020 and was co-director of Aarhus University\u2019s\u00a0Digital Living Research Centre<\/a>.\u00a0 She created and directed the\u00a0Future Making Research Consortium<\/em>, a collaboratory to bring together scholars, artists, and activists, particularly early career researchers, to study the intersection of digital technology, ways of being in the world, and future possible meanings, practices, and social structures. She regularly hosts post-graduate workshops, an annual Skagen Institute\u00a0Conference on Transgressive Methods, PhD summer schools, and special interest seminars and symposia in the area of digital culture, ethical decision making in automated and algorithmic society, citizen social science research methods, and participatory models for scholarly activism.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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