Off Center

Off Center

Off Center is a podcast series from the Center for Digital Narrative, a Norwegian Center of Research Excellence at the University of Bergen, Norway. In each episode, host Scott Rettberg and a guest delve into a topic revolving around digital storytelling and its effect on contemporary culture. The series covers academic research on digital narratives in electronic literature, computer games, social media, computational narrative systems, AI, XR and more in an enjoyable and understandable way.

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 ALGOpod #7: Bokar N'Diaye

ALGOpod #7: Bokar N'Diaye

In episode seven of ALGOpod, Gabriele de Seta catches up with Bokar N'Diaye, doctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, regarding the past and ...

6 Huhti 1h 4min

The AI Update XX - AI Consciousness

The AI Update XX - AI Consciousness

On this episode Scott and Jhave talk about AI Consciousness, debating whether recent research into mechanistic interpretability suggests that frontier models are developing introspection, nascent sent...

31 Maalis 33min

Episode 45 - Don’t Let AI Neutralize Your Voice with Kishonna Gray

Episode 45 - Don’t Let AI Neutralize Your Voice with Kishonna Gray

When Professor Kishonna Gray visited the Center for Digital Narrative in February 2026, she showed us “synthetic Kishonna”, an AI-generated version of Kishonna somebody made to share on social media w...

24 Maalis 33min

Episode 44: AI Characters with Lukas Wilde

Episode 44: AI Characters with Lukas Wilde

What happens when we treat AI not just as a tool, but as a character? In this episode of Off Center, guest host Jill Walker Rettberg sits down with Lukas Wilde to explore the evolution of AI personas....

16 Maalis 40min

ALGOpod #6: Santtu Raisanen

ALGOpod #6: Santtu Raisanen

In episode six of ALGOpod, Gabriele de Seta and Hanna Lauvli geek out with Santtu Raisanen, doctoral researcher at the Center for Consumer Society at The University of Helsinki, about the pervasive co...

9 Maalis 44min

Episode 43 - AI and the Humanities with Davis Schneiderman

Episode 43 - AI and the Humanities with Davis Schneiderman

What happens when you drop generative AI into the middle of a liberal arts curriculum? This week on Off Center, Scott sits down with Davis Schneiderman at Lake Forest College to find out. We dive into...

2 Maalis 55min

ALGOpod #5: Anya Shchetvina

ALGOpod #5: Anya Shchetvina

In episode five of ALGOpod, Gabriele de Seta is joined by Anya Shchetvina, PhD fellow with the Literary and Epistemic History of Small Forms research group at the Humboldt University in Berlin, to hea...

23 Helmi 40min

The AI Update XIX - World Models

The AI Update XIX - World Models

What are “World Models,” and why should we care? Could AI really understand reality? Scott and Jhave sit down to explore the rise of World Models - the "engines" of machine intuition -to discuss how q...

16 Helmi 17min