UiB Internship at the Center for Digital Narrative

This is an opportunity for current students in the Digital Culture BA program at the University of Bergen who have completed at least 60 ECTS in the specialisation. As an intern you will work at our Center of Research Excellence with one of our research teams two days a week. This is an excellent opportunity to get real work experience while also learning about research and earning 15 ECTS towards your degree. 

More information is available in the course description for DIKULT210 on the UiB website.

The following projects at the Center for Digital Narrative have available positions for interns for the spring 2026 semester: 

Project 1: Extending Digital Narrative  

Interested in learning how research insights emerge from creative practice in digital media? The XDN group at the Center for Digital Narrative, led by Professor Scott Rettberg, explores emerging technologies as storytelling environments, with a current focus on generative AI and extended reality platforms.  The group mixes creative practice, historical analysis, and aesthetic analysis of exemplars of new genres of digital narrative. XDN also produces public-facing exhibitions as part of our research. 

We are offering an internship position for a Digital Culture student interested in helping to document and archive creative projects produced by the group, past exhibitions we have curated, and other work of XDN researchers in the CDN collection and other online databases and archives. The intern would also participate in the preparation for our 2026 exhibition on extended reality narratives, our international seminar on the same topic, and forthcoming publications, and would join in the weekly meetings of our research group. The intern will be trained in digital archiving, event planning and collaborative research skills over the course of the semester. 

Project 2: ALGOFOLK  

Are you interested in algorithms and the stories people tell about them? The ALGOFOLK project (Algorithmic folklore: The mutual shaping of vernacular creativity and automation) is looking for an intern who is interested in collecting and transcribing stories about algorithms. As an ALGOFOLK intern, you will be trained in ethnographic methods and tasked with conducting observations and interviews that will contribute to the project’s goal of documenting contemporary narratives about technology. 

Project 3: SurvivingSOGICE 

SurvivingSOGICE (external link) is a digital, open-access platform dedicated to raising awareness and promoting policy action on SOGICE (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts) in Europe. Also known as “conversion therapy” or “conversion practices”, SOGICE refers to harmful interventions aimed at changing, suppressing, or repressing an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. Despite being widely discredited by medical, psychological, and human rights bodies, these practices continue to affect LGBTQIA+ people worldwide. The SurvivingSOGICE platform collects survivor testimonies, media coverage, and educational resources to fill critical knowledge gaps, raise public awareness, and support advocacy for policy change. The project combines digital storytelling, interactive media, and research-based documentation to preserve and share these narratives. The intern will work as part of the SurvivingSOGICE research and creative team, contributing to the project through one or more of the following areas: 

• Data Collection and Curation: Assisting in gathering, organizing, and verifying materials for the digital archive (media reports, survivor accounts, and related documentation).
• Research Communication: Supporting the dissemination of the project’s open call, press releases, and social media materials.
• Creative Collaboration: Contributing to the development of the web-based interactive experience and the accompanying VR documentary exploring survivor narratives. 

Project 4: Experimental digital creations 

This internship with Jason Nelson will involve researching and developing experimental digital narrative interfaces.  Interns should have experience working creatively with such tools as JavaScript, game engines like Construct3, Godot or Unity.  The intern will gain experience in helping develop new digital creations and identify and understand developing forms of interaction design in a digital writing and art context. Plus, it will be fun. 

Project 5: Developing the Babbage’s Soirée larp and dataset 

This project would suit a person interested in the history of technology and/or larping (live action roleplaying). The Soirée project consists of a dataset of guests who attended the famed scientific soirées Charles Babbage held for scientists, artists, writers and politicians in the 1830s and 1840s, and a larp to be organised for DIKULT104 students in spring 2026, where students will take on roles as one of the characters who actually participated in the historical events. An MA student in informatics is currently developing a data visualisation of the dataset. Tasks for an intern on this project could include data collection and curation, so finding and documenting more guests and verifying existing data, helping run the larp in DIKULT104, and developing more characters and better relationships and goals for characters in the larp based on the dataset and other materials.