Digital Culture

Writing is a necessary part of the study, and an important way to learn. What is the difference between a good and a bad paper? Part of the answer is that you must read and use literature to be able to write a good thesis. The library's collections and databases are there for you.

• Search and write
• PhD on track "Review and discover" is useful for masterstudents too
• Books about academic writing: 808.066
   
• Keenious - Keenious is  a new type of academic search tool that utilizes technology based on artificial intelligence to find research articles.
   
• Sage Research Metods, including Methods Map.
  Sage Research Methods Project Planner 
  Digital Methods Initiative på YouTube og på web
   
• Recommended books:
  - They say, I say: The moves that matter in academic writing
  - Writing your master's thesis : From A to Zen
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  - Akademic writing in English
  - Academic Writing
  - Stylish Academic Writing
• The use of sources in written work
   
• Reference styles
  "Reference styles are standardised rules for presenting information about the sources used in a text. Typically, a style will describe how to organise information about author(s), publication year, title and page numbers." Which style you should use depends on the subject you are studying. You must clarify this with your supervisor. You can find literature about styles in the library. We have for example Chicago manual of style and A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses and Dissertations : Chicago Style for Students and Researchers
• Present your work

By searching the library catalog Oria.no you find both e-books and paper books. After a search, you can choose only fulltext documents.

At the Art and humanities library you'll find the most important literature in digital culture, including the syllabus. The books in the library are arranged by disciplin, so books that are within the same disciplin stand together on the shelf. Within the disciplin books about the same subject are co-located. Each book has a number written on the back that determines where the book is placed on the library shelf. This is a so called Dewey number and the first numbers indicate the disciplin, while the next says something about the topic. You can also search in Oria on Dewey number, combined with words. You will also find e-books.

Computers - history: 004.09
Computers and women: 004.082
Computer games: 794.8 and 306.487
Digital culture / digital humanities: 001.30285
Digital Art: 776
Digital poetry: 802.85
Electronic literature: Collection in Oria
Academic writing: 808.066
   Litteraturreview: 808.066 and literature review
Information technology - impact on society: 303.4833
Programming languages 005.133
[Javascript] [Java]
Digital rhetoric: 808.00285
Social media: 302.231
Webdesign: 006.7
   Markup languages, among them HTML, CSS: 006.74

 

Collection of new books - not complete

Can’t find the book you’re looking for? Please send a book suggestion!

• List of databases from Oria
  Arts and humanities
  Digital Culture

• ACM Digital Library

• Science Direct

• JSTOR

• Find examples of best practice

• Oria.no is a union catalog for the academic libraries in Norway:
  Sign in at Oria 
  Request checked out books
  Request books and articles from other libraries
   
• Web of Science
• Sage Research Metods, inclusive Methods Map.
• Google Scholar
• Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
   
• BORA (Bergen Open Research Archive)
  is the archive of scientific material produced by University of Bergen. Here you find master's theses, doctoral theses, articles and other free material. Texts produced by Digital culture is interesting for readers belonging to other disciplines, and it is important that they become publicly available. The University Library will no longer receive the printed thesis, so BORA is the best option for storage and dissemination. Documents in BORA are included in NORA (Norwegian Open Research Archives), a service harvesting the content in all the Norwegian institutional archives, and Open Access journals in Norway.

When you submit your thesis you will get a choice to make it available in BORA. Passed assignments will then be transferred to BORA. Send questions to bora@uib.no

• The Literature kiosk UiB
  The Literature kiosk allows you to buy study literature for your courses at UiB. The files will be available within the semester.
   
• Electronic literature
  Cell Search Engine
  ELMCIP
  ELMCIP Anthology
  
  The Next
  
  Electronic Literature Organization Repository
  Electronic Literature Collection, vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4
  
  Posters collection

The Search and Write pages and Phd on Track provide guidance in searching. You can search in Oria using the Dewey number.
Please note that many e-books do not have Dewey numbers. It is therefore important to use various search techniques.

Oria
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This is humanities-driven research in electronic literature, games studies, digital culture, and computation to advance understanding of digital narrative. CDN is a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence funded by the Norwegian Research Council from 2023-2033. CDN focuses on algorithmic narrativity, new environments and materialities, and shifting cultural contexts.

• Publications

For electronic literature, the vision is to have one of the world's best book collections.

• Books on electronic literature at the University Library.
   

• Gender, Race, and Power in AI
   
• New media art
   
• Filter bubble critiques
   
• Metaphors of Data
   
• Electronic Literature Directory

• Mobile technologies
  The table of contents is a very useful bibliography of the research in the field

• Critical Algorithm Studies
   

Films:
Brodsky, I.T. (regi). (2016). Beware the Slenderman. New York: HBO

Brooker, C. (forfatter). (2016). Black Mirror. Los Gatos: Netflix

Lang, F. (regi). (1927). Metropolis. London: Eureka Entertainment

Nolan, J.,  Joy, L. & Gross, H.W. (forfattere). (2016): Westworld. New York: HBO

Spielberg, S. (regi). (2002). Minority Report. Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox

Stanton, A. (2008): Wall-E. Burbank: Walt Disney Pictures

Wachowski, A. & Wachowski, L. (regi). (1999): The Matrix. Burbank: Warner Brothers
 

Novels

Bradbury, R. (1953). Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine.

Brodin, E. (2003). Sverm. Oslo: Aschehoug.

Cline, E. (2011). Ready Player One. Overs. Pål Stokka. Original publisering 2011. Kristiansund: Vendetta forlag.

Doctorow, C. (2009). Veslebror ser deg. Overs. Øystein Vidnes. Original publisering som Little Brother (2008). Oslo: Samlaget.

Eggers, D. (2013). The Circle. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Gibson, W. (1989). Nevromantiker. Overs. Torgrim Eggen. Original publisering 1984. Oslo: Aschehoug.

Huxley, A. (1948). Brave New World

Orwell, G. (1962). 1984. Overs. Trygve Width. Original publisering 1948. Oslo: Gyldendal.

Roth, V. (2013). Divergent. Overs. Torleif Sjøgren-Erichsen. Original publisering 2011. Oslo: Schibsted.

Suarez, D. (2009): Daemon. New York: Dutton.

Suarez, D. (2010): Freedom. New York: Dutton.