Dr Leah Henrickson is a Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultures at the University of Queensland. She is the author of Reading Computer-Generated Texts (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and other peer-reviewed articles about how we understand text generation systems and output, artificial intelligence, and digital media ecosystems. Dr Henrickson also studies digital storytelling for critical self-reflection, community building, and commercial benefit. She regularly supports projects and organisations in their digital storytelling efforts as consultant and advisor.
Dr Henrickson is especially keen to collaborate on projects involving digital methods and media, hermeneutics, histories of communications media, and unconventional text production and dissemination.
Journal Article: Prompting meaning: a hermeneutic approach to optimising prompt engineering with ChatGPT
Henrickson, Leah and Meroño-Peñuela, Albert (2023). Prompting meaning: a hermeneutic approach to optimising prompt engineering with ChatGPT. AI & SOCIETY, 1-16. doi: 10.1007/s00146-023-01752-8
Henrickson, Leah (2023). Review of: Mark Vareschi and Heather Wacha, eds. Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 202 pp. $79.95. Hardcover (ISBN 9780299338107).. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 117 (2), 262-264. doi: 10.1086/725503
Journal Article: Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots
Henrickson, Leah (2023). Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots. Media, Culture & Society, 45 (5), 016344372211476-966. doi: 10.1177/01634437221147626
Reading computer-generated texts
Henrickson, Leah (2021). Reading computer-generated texts. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108906463
Henrickson, Leah (2022). “Ummmmm, guys? Don’t microwave your books”: readers, authors, and institutions in #PandemicReading tweets. Bookshelves in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic. (pp. 259-279) edited by Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Shafquat Towheed. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-05292-7_13
Authorship in computer-generated texts
Henrickson, Leah (2020). Authorship in computer-generated texts. Oxford research encyclopedia of literature. (pp. 1-21) edited by Paula Rabinowitz . Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1226
Prompting meaning: a hermeneutic approach to optimising prompt engineering with ChatGPT
Henrickson, Leah and Meroño-Peñuela, Albert (2023). Prompting meaning: a hermeneutic approach to optimising prompt engineering with ChatGPT. AI & SOCIETY, 1-16. doi: 10.1007/s00146-023-01752-8
Henrickson, Leah (2023). Review of: Mark Vareschi and Heather Wacha, eds. Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 202 pp. $79.95. Hardcover (ISBN 9780299338107).. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 117 (2), 262-264. doi: 10.1086/725503
Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots
Henrickson, Leah (2023). Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots. Media, Culture & Society, 45 (5), 016344372211476-966. doi: 10.1177/01634437221147626
Soft skills, stories, and self-reflection: Applied digital storytelling for self-branding
Henrickson, Leah, Jephcote, William and Comissiong, Rhys (2022). Soft skills, stories, and self-reflection: Applied digital storytelling for self-branding. Convergence-The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies, 28 (6), 1577-1597. doi: 10.1177/13548565221091517
The Lovelace effect: Perceptions of creativity in machines
Natale, Simone and Henrickson, Leah (2022). The Lovelace effect: Perceptions of creativity in machines. New Media & Society, 146144482210772. doi: 10.1177/14614448221077278
The Hermeneutics of Computer-Generated Texts
Henrickson, Leah and Merono-Penuela, Albert (2022). The Hermeneutics of Computer-Generated Texts. Configurations, 30 (2), 115-139.
Henrickson, Leah and Dumbill, Eleanor (2021). Tangling and untangling the Trollopes: a stylometric analysis of Frances Milton Trollope, Frances Eleanor Trollope, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, and Charles Dickens. Victorian Review: an interdisciplinary journal of victorian studies, 47 (2), 243-262. doi: 10.1353/vcr.2021.0032
Digital technology and the practices of humanities research
Henrickson, Leah (2020). Digital technology and the practices of humanities research. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 52 (4), 1253-1254. doi: 10.1177/0961000620945125
Henrickson, Leah (2020). Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. English, 69 (265), 194-197. doi: 10.1093/english/efz050
The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
Henrickson, Leah (2020). The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity. Configurations, 28 (3), 398-400. doi: 10.1353/con.2020.0023
THE BOOK IN THE DIGITAL AGE: AN INTRODUCTION
Henrickson, Leah (2020). THE BOOK IN THE DIGITAL AGE: AN INTRODUCTION. Publishing History, 83, 7-18.
Scenarios of countercultural representation: an analysis of inventory books' visualities
Henrickson, Leah (2019). Scenarios of countercultural representation: an analysis of inventory books' visualities. Visual Communication. doi: 10.1177/1470357219877560
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature
Henrickson, Leah (2019). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature. English, 68 (260), 95-98. doi: 10.1093/english/efz010
Computer-generated fiction in a literary lineage: breaking the hermeneutic contract
Henrickson, Leah (2018). Computer-generated fiction in a literary lineage: breaking the hermeneutic contract. Logos, 29 (2-3), 54-63. doi: 10.1163/18784712-02902007
Butterflies, busy weekends, and chicken salad: genetic criticism and the output of @Pentametron
Henrickson, Leah (2018). Butterflies, busy weekends, and chicken salad: genetic criticism and the output of @Pentametron. Authorship, 7 (1). doi: 10.21825/aj.v7i1.8619
Tool vs. agent: attributing agency to natural language generation systems
Henrickson, Leah (2018). Tool vs. agent: attributing agency to natural language generation systems. Digital Creativity, 29 (2-3), 182-190. doi: 10.1080/14626268.2018.1482924
Literature in a Changed Publishing Environment
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