Last Updated on November 3, 2021 by SnorreA
Thank you to all participants of the MediaFutures Annual Meeting 2021.
Presentations and research posters from the conference are now available. Click on the selected title to open the file.
Day 1, 29 September – Research Day
- Welcome Address – Prof. Christoph Trattner, Centre Director MediaFutures, University of Bergen
- Designing the News: datafication of new values, infrastructures and publics – Prof. Jannie Møller Hartley, Roskilde University
- Using Recommender Systems to Support Changes in Preferences and Behaviour – Assoc. Prof. II Alain Starke, Wageningen University & Research/ University of Bergen
- Computational News Discovery: Designing Journalistic Tools to Support Algorithmic Lead Generation -Assoc. Prof. Nicholas Diakopoulus, Northwestern University / University of Bergen
MediaFutures Work-package leaders’ presentations:
- Understanding Media Exeriences – Prof. Brita Ytre-Arne, WP1, Univesity of Bergen
- User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement – Assoc. Prof. Mehdi Elahi and Prof. Christoph Trattner, WP2, University of Bergen
- Media Content Production & Analysis – Prof. Andrea Lothe Opdahl & Prof. Bjørnar Tessem, WP3, University of Bergen
- Media Content Interaction & Accessibility – Senior Researcher Njål Borch, NORCE & Prof. Morten Fjeld, WP4, University of Bergen
- Norwegian Language Technology – Prof. Lilja Øvrelid & Prof. Koenraad De Smedt, WP5, University of Oslo / University of Bergen
Research posters:
- Reaching teenagers: Public broadcasting among new media experiences, John Magnus Ragnhildson Dahl, MediaFutures, University of Bergen
- Dodging the paywalls, Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus, MediaFutures, University of Bergen
- Datafication, Media and Democracy – Transformation of news work in datafied society, Ana Milojevic, MediaFutures, University of Bergen
- Nudging behavioral change with recommenders, Ayoub El Majjodi, MediaFutures, University of Bergen
- How can news sites personalize people’s news experiences without making readers more polarized and fragmented?, Erik Knudsen, MediaFutures, University of Bergen
- Exploring Recommender Systems: Towards Fair and Ethical Recommendation, Anastasiia Klimashevskaia, MediaFutures, Univeristy of Bergen
- Large scale language models are good! But are they fair?, Samia Touileb, MediaFutures, University of Bergen
- Fusing Media and UX, Ingar Arntzen, NORCE
- A brief introduction to event extraction, Huiling You, Univeristy of O
Master’s Students Poster:
- From tweet to story outline, Torstein Hatlebakk and Ulrik Wilhelm Koren
- Movie recommendation based on deep visual features, David Kvasnes Olsen
- The Use of Smartphones at a concert environment, Ingrid Haugsvær Årmot
- Visual analysis, recommendation and personalization, Daniel C. Jakobsen
- Why do people enjoy react-videos, and how come they prefer this over the original content?, Benjamin Aniket Stenerud
- Building Event Graphs from GDELT Streams, Marius Alexander Pedersen
Day 2, 30 September – Industry Day
- Natural Language Processing for Diverse News Recommendation: Challenges and Chances , Prof. Antske Fokkens, VU Amsterdam – coming soon
- Automatic News Classification, Prof. Enrico Motta, Open University/ University of Bergen
- The Future of Graphics in Online Live Video Production, Prof. Oskar Juhlin, Stockholm University / University of Bergen