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Nina Lager Vestberg

@lagernina.bsky.social
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Professor of visual culture @ NTNU Trondheim | Media, Data, Museums | Author of Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization @ MIT Press 2023 | Campuslivet (akademisk nyhetsbrev på norsk): campuslivet.substack.com

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I honestly thought this was a speech by the US president just laid out as a poem.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Note from my notebook (2016). Still relevant.
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Stefan Fisher-Høyrem @stfisherhoyrem.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Enkelt nok å finne ut hvor gammel boken det siteres fra er. Du bare slår opp i sluttnotene, taster inn hele url-koden, som tar deg til Amazon-nettsiden til en utgave av boken, og...
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
SAVE THE DATE: Am 13. November findet in Zürich der vierte Workshop in der Reihe «Bildlosigkeit» statt. Mit Nina Franz und Bernard Geoghegan geht es dieses Mal um das Thema «Muster/Patterns». Freue mich schon sehr darauf!
digitalculturesandarts.ch
Bildlosigkeit
With the current AI hype, the concept of the pattern has once again gained prominence. For what is currently marketed as “artificial intelligence” is
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online
Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture
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Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm doing a talk in LA in a few weeks about blank forms, C18 stationers, and the Burying in Woollen Acts. If you have basically zero pain threshold for C18 booktrade chat, I think it'll be quite good. Anyway, it'll be on YouTube and you can sign up here if you like: 1718.ucla.edu/events/odiou...
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“Odious! In Woollen!”: Blank Precedents and the London Stationers, 1690-1830 - The Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Thursday, November 5, 2026 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST - Twenty-First Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade Lecture by Dennis Duncan, Associate Professor, University College London This paper begins with a collection of four dozen Burying in Woollen affidavits from the village of Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire, dating from the first decade of the eighteenth century to the last. Each affidavit testifies to a burial in [...]
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My sentiments EXACTLY:
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My sentiments EXACTLY:
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Blimey! Maybe they're all using hallucinating AI agents to do their emails for them...
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well-timed nudge, I have just ordered it!
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Anne Sigrid Refsum @annesigrid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ammagaad de lagde til og med en yotube short (jeg har for mange tenåringer i huset, nå føler jeg meg famous) NB jeg sa også i samme sammenheng at akkurat det poenget har jeg fra @lukasrawilde.bsky.social !
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Hvor intelligent er KI?
YouTube video by Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mamma ble overrasket da hun hørte at jeg hadde en annen sjef enn meg selv på universitetet. Som professor er jeg jo på mange måter min egen sjef, men dermed ofte også min egen eneste medarbeider. Og noen ganger må vi to ta en prat for jobbe bedre sammen. www.campuslivet.no/hvordan-ta-e...
campuslivet.no
Hvordan ta en medarbeidersamtale med deg selv
Ikke la din indre sjef legge planer uten å ta din indre medarbeider med på råd.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My piece was stuck in production for a few months so it reads a bit outdated ... but nevertheless, the special issue as a whole is great: Hogan, M. (2026). "Rotting empires". European Journal of Cultural Studies, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/1367...
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how your email finds me today.
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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 24/09/2026
The program for our Critical AI Studies? conference, happening Oct. 9&10 at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, is now online: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Hope to see you there!
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Amazing line-up!
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
<<cackles darkly>> How much of this tech bro shit is driven by the disappearance of female secretaries, who, let's be honest, kept a lot of companies running, and ability of wives to now say "No, time, honey, got a board meeting then school pickup, you gotta make the res for your mom's bday."
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Akademisk friskap! For et supert konsept! Dette skulle jeg gjerne fått med meg, men jeg er verken på Facern eller i Oslo, så atte... får nøye meg med å lese boka 🤓
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Anne Sigrid Refsum @annesigrid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
100 prosent alt hun sier her
kode24.no
– Å bruke KI er som å gå med bloddiamant
Etikkforsker mener måten kunstig intelligens trenes på, gjør teknologien uetisk.
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Noen (andre) halvgamle akademikere som kjenner seg igjen? www.forskerforum.no/forskerlivet...
forskerforum.no
Jeg er midt i karrieren, men får jeg stadig følelsen av at den nærmer seg slutten
En akademisk versjon av den biologiske klokken ser ut til å ha løpt fra meg uten at jeg ante det.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm 😡 of being told I should take seriously these unserious people whose *only* skills are technical. Even worse, I hate living in a society that fetishizes, elevates, incentivizes, and materially rewards these very particular skills, despite their inverse correlation with other critical skills.
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Noen (andre) halvgamle akademikere som kjenner seg igjen? www.forskerforum.no/forskerlivet...
forskerforum.no
Jeg er midt i karrieren, men får jeg stadig følelsen av at den nærmer seg slutten
En akademisk versjon av den biologiske klokken ser ut til å ha løpt fra meg uten at jeg ante det.
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@lukasrawilde.bsky.social 🤩
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Anne Sigrid Refsum @annesigrid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nobody in their right mind would say Midjourney or other image generators had developed sentience. But it's the same technology, the output is just visual not language
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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Jeg vet ikke om noen trenger å høre det men... I forskningsetikk ligger også det å gjøre vurderinger av hvilken programvare man benytter seg av. Hva du tar i bruk til å _gjøre_ forskning er et forskningsetisk spørsmål du må kunne forsvare i en fagfellevurdering.
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Skal du bevare evnen til å tenke selv må du bli KI-resistent! Her er fem regler for å unngå kognitiv overgivelse! www.khrono.no/fem-regler-f...
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Fem regler for KI-resistent forskning
Det er helt nødvendig at vi forskere lærer å gjenkjenne typiske KI-feil både som lesere og som skribenter, skriver KI-forsker Jill Walker Rettberg.
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Anne Sigrid, da... mandatet til enhver institusjon som finansieres av skattebetalernes penger er selvfølgelig å bruke minst mulig av dem! (Gjerne slik at før nevnte skattebetalere ser seg nødt til å gå til private tilbydere/utsugere og gi dem pengene/dataene/sjelene sine i tillegg.)
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Flink og snill Vegard @rakettkirurg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Det var sannelig godt KI endelig kom på banen, så vi omsider kan illustrere ting som skjedde for hundrevis av år siden
- Produksjonsselskapet har brukt Kl for a teste ut korleis ein kan illustrere noko som skjedde for hundrevis av ăr sidan, forklarer sjef i innkjopsredaksjonen i NRK, Fredrik Færden.
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
17 September 9:30-16:00 @futures-studies.bsky.social Klockan, Olof Palmes gata 29-31
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Picturing Baskerville’s Punches –Caroline Archer Parré Proto-photographic Reproductive Phantasmagoria –Wolfgang Brückle Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020 –Nina Lager Vestberg & Anna Näslund @annanaslund.bsky.social
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Realism revisited. The persistence of photography in the age of AI –Estelle Blaschke What Did the Victorians See? Using Multimodal AI to Analyze 72,000 News Illustrations –Thomas Smits @thomassmits.bsky.social What Are Artificial Intelligence Models Models Of? –Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Fancy an excuse to come to Stockholm in September? Open seminar on PICTURE CULTURES with various folks involved in the project Selling Pictures: Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020 (IFFS/VR). Speaker list in the comments!
A poster of various AI-generated cats accompanied by the following invitation to an
OPEN SEMINAR
PICTURE CULTURES

17 Sept. 09.30–16.00

Klockan Konferens

Olof Palmes gata 29-31

Welcome to a seminar where researchers as well as the advisory board involved in the project Selling Pictures: Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020 (IFFS/Vetenskapsrådet) will present recent and ongoing research on various of aspects of how mass-produced and mass-reproduced pictures can be interpreted, datafied and studied.

Speakers:

Realism revisited. The persistence of photography in the age of AI 
–Estelle Blaschke

What Did the Victorians See? Using Multimodal AI to Analyze 72,000 News Illustrations
–Thomas Smits

What Are Artificial Intelligence Models Models Of?
–Fabian Offert

Picturing Baskerville’s Punches
–Caroline Archer Parré

Proto-photographic Reproductive Phantasmagoria
–Wolfgang Brückle

Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020
–Nina Lager Vestberg & Anna Näslund
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
One of the most captivating reads I have come across in 25 years of subscribing to @lrb.co.uk – I am setting my calendar for March next year when I gather the book-length version is due.
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Og en av disse organisasjonene kan man mistenke for å være Bane Nor...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“In the 1990s + 2000s, gov’ts, uni’s, + libraries—the institutions that historically bore responsibility for organizing + preserving public knwldg—declined to, or were prevented from, bldg the digital infrastructure plainly required by an age when democracy seemed ascendant + universally desirable”
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What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.
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Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The first two opportunities for my new ERC project are now being advertised.  Both have an emphasis on critical AI studies, creative research practice and photography/ visual AI. Postdoc:  tinyurl.com/f8jnxynv PhD (UK/Irish applicants): www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/ai-a...
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Job Specification
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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"The book didn't get done in the length of time I wished. It took much longer, but I'd rather get it done right, than... I was also switching academic fields. I wanted to be accurate. You can be accurate, or you can be fast. Rarely can you be both.” - Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries in new interview
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Why it took 16 years to write a book with Anna O. Law
It takes a long time to write a book. Anna Law took 16 years. We discuss why it was worth persisting through career pressures, time pressures, and the needs of the research.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Just saw an intriguing new article about digital enclosure, planned obsolescence, and extractive big tech… in a Springer journal. Please, academics, stop publishing in journals controlled by commercial publishers that embody the worst of Silicon Valley! Think abt the means of knowledge production!
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This! Which somehow made me think about when software used to have "authors". Remember how every new version of Photoshop had an increasingly long list of names credited on the label thing that was displayed while the programme was loading? (I am ancient)
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Meta never fail to answer their founding question: “how can we use tech to embolden and empower creeps?”
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TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using Meta 'smart glasses'
The "content maker" published videos of encounters with young women and a female Sikh shop worker where he talked of a plot to "breed out the white race".
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Håper du slipper for mange "fällt aus"-meldinger på ferden...
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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
1/ Information literacy has a confidence problem. We often teach novices to “evaluate the evidence” as though a checklist can turn them into temporary experts.
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Stefan Fisher-Høyrem @stfisherhoyrem.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Jeg kunne lagt til: erkjenn at du neppe får jobb i akademia, og kjenn etter om du fortsatt er motivert.
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Veldig godt poeng!
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Og hvis du trenger å tenke over saken en stund, anbefaler jeg å starte her: www.campuslivet.no/sa-du-tror-d...
campuslivet.no
Så du tror du vil ta doktorgrad?
Endelig andre del i Campuslivets miniserie om doktorgradsstudier! Inneholder topp 3 tips om søknadsskriving og intervju med forfatteren av en etterlengtet bok om ph.d.-livet.
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Så du tror du vil ta doktorgrad? 7 vinnerlodd i årets lotteri der jeg jobber! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
jobbnorge.no
Up to 7 PhD Research Fellow Positions (304877) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: Up to 7 PhD Research Fellow Positions (304877), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Thursday, October 1, 2026
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Sukk, ja... dere er vel ikke alene der 😆
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Thank you!
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Den stranda e itj i Trøndelag, da veintle'?
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Dette er så nær jeg noen gang vil komme en "gratitude journal" – en liste over ting som ikke er prestasjoner eller resultater, men som likevel har gitt meg glede i jobben dette semesteret 🙏 Anbefales for alle som føler seg bakpå før ferien! www.campuslivet.no/hva-har-gjor...
Fareskilt som viser skiløper i utforbakke mot en bakgrunn av grønne løvtrær og elektrisitetsledninger.
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