Author: Jill Walker

Jill Walker is an associate professor at the Department of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her current research focus is distributed narrative, both in physical and networked spaces. She also researches electronic literature and art more generally. Jill has been an avid blogger for several years, and her research blog can be found at jilltxt.net.

Essays in EBR by Jill Walker

2004-03-23

Jill Walker's response

Jill Walker questions who (or what) sets the rules for interaction.

Jill Walker
2004-04-02

Jill Walker responds in turn

"Thinking around the responses," Jill Walker reconsiders how gender and identity influence the reader-reading-the-reader in Online Caroline.

Jill Walker
2005-04-18

How I Was Played by Online Caroline

Jill Walker's encounter with a participatory, and vaguely sinister, online narrative.

Jill Walker
2004-04-03

How I Was Played by Online Caroline (sidebar)

Sidebar images from "How I Was Played by Online Caroline."

Jill Walker
2008-04-20

A Network of Quests in World of Warcraft

Jill Walker argues that although the quests in World of Warcraft lack the narrative or linguistic sophistication that we expect from literary texts, the sustained attention that players give to games equates with the attentiveness that readers give novels (or at least that readers once gave novels - back when novels had readers).

Jill Walker