MediaFutures is happy to invite you to join our three seminars in May.

First up is our invited speaker, Professor Neil Maiden, Professor of Digital Creativity, Cass Business School, City University of London, who will give a talk about JECT.AI – a new digital product for augmented journalism. Maiden will also demonstrate a series of the tool’s features in the context of newsroom activities.

TITLE: JECT.AI: Using digital technologies to augment work in the newsroom.
WHEN: 4 May 2021, 12:15-13:00.
MORE INFO:
https://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-professor-neil-maiden-city-university-of-london/

Shortly thereafter, we invite you to join CEDAS (Center for Data Science, UiB)  and MediaFutures for a seminar by Himan Abdollahpouri from the Northwestern University, USA, on the topic of popularity bias in recommender systems.

TITLE: User-centered Investigation of Popularity Bias in Recommender Systems.
WHEN: 6 May 2021, 14:15-15:00
MORE INFOhttps://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-user-centered-investigation-of-popularity-bias-in-recommender-systems/

We round up May with a talk by Tomasz Kosinski from the Chalmers University of Technology, who will talk about design challenges of privacy controls for IoT systems.

TITLE: Should we have PETs in “smart” homes?
WHEN: 20 May 2021, 13:00-14:00
MORE INFO: https://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-tomasz-kosinski-chalmers-university-of-technology/

Welcome to all!