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: Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models
Munn, Luke and Henrickson, Leah (2024). Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models. Learning, Media and Technology, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/17439884.2024.2327024
Journal Article: On constructive bewilderment: using special collections material for teaching digital practices
Henrickson, Leah, Hall, Benjamin and Procter, Timothy (2024). On constructive bewilderment: using special collections material for teaching digital practices. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 50 (2) 102852, 102852. doi: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102852
Book Chapter: Mit den Toten chatting. Die Hermeneutik von Thanabots
Henrickson, Leah (2024). Mit den Toten chatting. Die Hermeneutik von Thanabots. Quellcodekritik: Zur Philologie von Algorithmen. (pp. 245-275) Berlin, Germany: August Verlag. doi: 10.52438/avaa1004
Mechanics of Imagination: Arthur Coghlan and Generative AI in Creative Nonfiction
Doctor Philosophy
Literature in a Changed Publishing Environment
Doctor Philosophy
Reading computer-generated texts
Henrickson, Leah (2021). Reading computer-generated texts. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108906463
Mit den Toten chatting. Die Hermeneutik von Thanabots
Henrickson, Leah (2024). Mit den Toten chatting. Die Hermeneutik von Thanabots. Quellcodekritik: Zur Philologie von Algorithmen. (pp. 245-275) Berlin, Germany: August Verlag. doi: 10.52438/avaa1004
Artificial intelligence in politics
Henrickson, Leah (2023). Artificial intelligence in politics. Handbook of Digital Politics. (pp. 242-271) edited by Stephen Coleman and Lone Sorensen. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781800377585.00026
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
Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models
Munn, Luke and Henrickson, Leah (2024). Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models. Learning, Media and Technology, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/17439884.2024.2327024
On constructive bewilderment: using special collections material for teaching digital practices
Henrickson, Leah, Hall, Benjamin and Procter, Timothy (2024). On constructive bewilderment: using special collections material for teaching digital practices. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 50 (2) 102852, 102852. doi: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102852
Dietz, Laura and Henrickson, Leah (2023). Introduction: books on screen. Participations, 19 (3), 259-271.
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
Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots
Henrickson, Leah (2023). Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots. Media, Culture and Society, 45 (5), 949-966. doi: 10.1177/01634437221147626
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
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 and 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. doi: 10.1353/con.2022.0008
Juan Enriquez, Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics reviewed by Leah Henrickson
Henrickson, Leah (2022). Juan Enriquez, Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics reviewed by Leah Henrickson. Prometheus, 37 (4), 409-413. doi: 10.13169/prometheus.37.4.0409
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
Anand, Pranit, Li, Dongmei, Keen, Joel and Henrickson, Leah (2023). Positioning large language model artificial intelligence tools within discourse analysis : Opportunities, challenges and ethical considerations. ASCILITE 2023 Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 3-6 December 2023. Tugun, QLD, Australia: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. doi: 10.14742/apubs.2023.524
Mechanics of Imagination: Arthur Coghlan and Generative AI in Creative Nonfiction
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