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SUMMARY:NMD: AI and the media industry: Where do we stand? Where do we go?
DESCRIPTION:When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022\, it sparked a rapid democratization of generative AI technology. It also marked the beginning of a new era for the media industry. \nThis session is lead by technology and news leaders from four major Norwegian media companies sharing the impact that the rapid AI development has had on their companies and the media industry in general so far. \nMediaFutures Steering Board Member Pål Nedregotten (NRK)\, Juan Carlos Lopez Calvet (Schibsted)\, Jan Thoresen (Labrador CMS)\, and Markus Jensen (Amedia) will delve into the challenges and opportunities that AI technology brings them. How has the technology changed the way they work? What are the biggest differences in their AI strategies? And\, importantly\, what lies ahead for AI in Norwegian media production? \nThe conversation will be moderated by Sofie Braseth Guldbrandsen\, editorial project manager at Aftenposten and chair of Nona. \nThis session is part of the Nordic Media Days and requires a conference ticket.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/ai-and-the-media-industry-where-do-we-stand-where-do-we-go/
LOCATION:Dovregubben\, Grieghallen
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:NMD: Media Survey 2024: American Conditions
DESCRIPTION:As part of this years Nordic Media Days\, MediaFutures associate professor Erik Knudsen will present the Medieundersøkelse. \nFall 2024 marks another presidential election in the United States\, prompting this year’s Media Survey to delve into the media habits of the American populace and their level of trust in the press. How and from where do Americans gather political information – and how critical are they of their sources? How do they perceive the degree of freedom of expression and societal polarization? Are they affected by cancel culture\, and if so\, how? The responses from the U.S. will be juxtaposed against the critical media literacy of the Norwegian population. Are we inching towards what can be termed “American conditions”? Are there segments of the population with media habits more aligned with those of Americans than others? We will also explore the extent to which Norwegian and American populations feel represented in media coverage. Do they have a voice in societal debates\, and do they find it useful to exercise their right to vote? The survey also examines how artificial intelligence has influenced media coverage\, trust in the media\, and media literacy. What are journalists’ attitudes towards this tool compared to the average citizen on the street? Are Norwegian media professionals\, Norwegians\, and Americans equally adept at distinguishing between content created by AI and by humans? \nThe 2024 Media Survey is conducted among a representative sample of the population in the United States\, as well as members of the Norwegian Union of Journalists\, the Norwegian Editors’ Association\, and a selection of other individuals in Norway.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/media-survey-2024-american-conditions/
LOCATION:Grieghallen
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:NMD: ChatGPT\, Copilot & Bard – How do Large Language Models Work?
DESCRIPTION:Large language models have taken over Norwegian media companies\, and the technology is being used in increasingly more phases of news production\, from idea development\, transcription\, translation\, to summarization. \nBut what exactly is a language model\, and how do they work? Samia Touileb is an associate professor in language technology at the Department of Information and Media Studies at the University of Bergen\, works in SFI MediaFutures and is an expert on language models. In this session\, she will “open the hood” and show us what lies inside the large language models. \nWhat is so-called deep learning? What architectures are hidden between our input and the model’s output? Where are the language models’ training data sourced from? And what ethical blind spots and problematic biases exist in this data? \nThe session is part of the Nordic Media Days and required a conference ticket.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/chatgpt-copilot-bard-how-does-large-language-models-work/
LOCATION:Troldtog\, Grieghallen
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Master Student Demonstration
DESCRIPTION:UiBs media network Teklab is organising the first ever Master Student Demo at the program for media and interaction design (MIX). The event will take place in the Atrium in Media City Bergen from 10.00 to 12.30 on Friday May 3rd. \nThis is an event in the newly established “Innovation Days” at the MIX program. This time around our master students will present their value propositions and minimum viable prototypes. The audience will give them input and help them to learn as much as possible about the potential for value creation in their projects. The event is free for all\, but you have to register. The deadline for lunch registration is Thursday May 2nd at 12.00. Please register here and you will get a free lunch. \nThe “Innovation Days” is a joint effort from alle the teachers at MIX plus the administration and the students themselves. The event is organized by the program board for the media and interaction design (MIX) program at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies\, with professor Lars Nyre as the main organizer. The Infomedia department and TekLab sponsors the event with a free lunch for participants and audience alike \nProgram schedule\nThe event takes place in the Atrium of Media City Bergen on Friday May 3rd from 10.00 – 12.30. \n10.00 – 10.05. Introduction by MIX program chair Lars Nyre. \n10.05 – 10.30. “Introduction to Open Innovation: Harnessing Collective Intelligence for Innovative Solutions”. Lecture by Joao Ribeiro. \n10.30 – 11.00. Demo of value propositions by the first year students (MIX303). Introduction by Joao Ribeiro. The students will stand in front of their posters and explain their project and talk to audience members. There will be around 15 separate projects (see details below). \n11.00 – 11.30. Demo of minimum viable prototypes by the second year students (MIX350). Introduction by Joao Ribeiro. The students will stand in front of their posters and technical equipment (f.ex. computer screens and VR gear) and explain their projects. The audience members will be able to test the prototypes themselves. There will be 7 separate projects (see details below). \n11.30 – 12.30. Free lunch and countinued mingling around the stands. Conclusion by UiB Innovation Pilots Johannes Helleve and Stine Lines. \n 
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/master-student-demonstration/
LOCATION:Media City Bergen\, Atrium
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SUMMARY:Webinar on EU elections and how to prevent interference
DESCRIPTION:The EU elections\, Europe Day\, Victory Day and Eurovision are approaching – and so are the opportunities for spreading false information and fomenting polarization. That’s why Faktabari\, in cooperation with its NORDIS partners\, is organizing a free webinar for journalists on the EU elections and election interference on May 3. \nThe webinar will be held on International Press Freedom Day from 12:15 to 15:30. The webinar to be held on May 3 has an interesting coverage of both domestic and Nordic experts. All Finnish journalists and journalist students who want to update their knowledge about EU elections\, disinformation and fact-checking tools are welcome to the lines. \nAlso MediaFutures Ph.D candidate Sohail Khan is present and will present his research on deep fake detection as well as NORDIS.2\, a project he works on together with UiB-infomedia associate professor Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen. \nBetween 2022 and 2023\, the Norwegian fact-checking organization played a crucial role in providing guidance to MediaFutures’ PhD candidate\, Sohail Ahmed Khan\, as he developed two prototypes: an image classifier and a language detector. Both tools have earned great acclaim among fact checkers and journalists\, including those operating in war-torn Ukraine. One of the tools Sohail will showcase at the webinar is the tank classifier. \nThe event is hosted and held mainly in Finnish. Sohail Ahmed Khan will speak in English. \nProgram:\n12.15–12.30\nOpening Words\nPipsa Havula & Joonas Pörsti/ Faktabaari \n12.30–13.00\nWhat kind of disinformation narratives circulate about the EU? What can we learn from the Eurovision Song Contest?\nAndreas Önnerfors/ Director of Fact-Checking Program at Sweden’s Fojo Institute \n13.00–13.30\nWhat is important for journalists to know before the EU elections?\nNiina Saloranta/ Press Officer at the European Parliament’s Finland Office. Saloranta provides an overview of the EU institutions\, how decision-making works\, what happens before and after the elections\, and gives examples of journalists’ sources of information. \n13.30–13.50\nHow to find EU news.\nHannele Muilu/ Yle’s Brussels Correspondent \n13.50–14.00\nBreak \n14.00–14.15\nWhat is EFCSN? How is the European fact-checking network preparing for the elections?\nThomas Hedin/ Managing Editor at Tjekdet and Board Member of EFCSN \n14.15–14:35\nAI tools for journalists.\nSohail Ahmed Khan/ PhD Candidate at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies\, University of Bergen. The University of Bergen/MediaFutures has developed AI tools in collaboration with the Norwegian fact-checking organization Faktisk to assist journalists. Sohail Ahmed Khan presents them. \n14.35–14:55\nInsights into the Digivaalivahti project by Faktabaari and CheckFirst and their findings so far.\nPipsa Havula & Guillaume Kuster \n14:55–15:30\nSummary of the most important fact-checking tools currently available\nKatja Lehtisaari\, University Lecturer in Journalism at Tampere University\, discusses fact-checking courses for journalism students and future collaboration within the NORDIS project framework.\nFuture plans \nThe event concludes at 15:30. \nTo register for the webinar\, please follow the link.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/webinar-on-eu-elections-and-how-to-prevent-interference/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240523T090000
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SUMMARY:Academic breakfast with Erik Knudsen
DESCRIPTION:The SV-faculty invites all students and employees at UiB to attend Erik Knudsens presentation about news avoiders in Norway. \nHave you found yourself consciously avoiding news or specific news topics over the past year? For instance\, have you refrained from clicking on stories about the dire situations in Ukraine or Gaza? If so\, you’re not alone. New figures from the Media Survey 2024 reveal that a whopping 34 percent of Norwegians are classified as “news avoiders.” Is it a democratic issue that so many people are dodging the news? Should news avoiders feel guilty? Erik Knudsen doesn’t think so. He discusses his research on people’s selective media consumption and news avoidance\, citing results from the Media Survey 2024 recently presented at the Nordic Media Days. Knudsen will also offer insights from an ongoing MediaFutures study on whether so-called “constructive news” – solution-oriented news that emphasizes hope and possibilities over negativity – could serve as a kind of “antidote” to reduce news avoidance. \nErik Knudsen is an associate professor at the Department of Information and Media Studies and works as work package 1 leader in SFI MediaFutures.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/academic-breakfast-with-erik-knudsen/
LOCATION:Vrimearealet\, SV-bygget\, 3.etasje
CATEGORIES:Events,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240529T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240530T170000
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SUMMARY:Ethical considerations regarding the use of AI
DESCRIPTION:Western Norwegian Film Centre\, in collaboration with the Zephyr Media Fund\, BIFF\, and the Film Association\, invites you to industry days and a film festival at Kode Permanenten on May 29th and 30th in Bergen\, where we gather the film industry in the region for inspiring lectures\, presentations of fresh film and TV projects\, and professional updates! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor Samia Touileb from the University of Bergen will shed light on ethical considerations regarding the use of AI. What challenges may arise from the use of tools like ChatGPT and OpenAI in the development of a film idea\, contracts\, or a script? And will it hinder artistic creativity if one must consider these ethical issues? \nSamia Touileb is an associate professor in language technology at the Department of Information and Media Studies and holds a master’s degree in artificial intelligence and a doctorate in language technology. She has previously been a researcher at MediaFutures – UiB and a postdoctoral fellow at the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. \nHer research interests include fairness and justice in language technology models\, information extraction\, automatic summarization generation\, and the application of language technology and machine learning methods in social science research.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/ethical-considerations-regarding-the-use-of-ai/
LOCATION:Kode Permanenten\, Nordahl Bruns gate 9\, Bergen
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240530T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240531T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T232642
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SUMMARY:International Workshop: “AI & Political Conflict”
DESCRIPTION:The Boston-Bergen Forum on Digital Futures invites to a two-day hybrid event\, bringing together prominent scholars to discuss the impact of AI-based platforms and their underlying technological\, normative\, and economic principles\, on political discourse\, deep disagreement\, and conflict. \nWe are happy to invite to our second international workshop “AI & Political Conflict”\, a two-day\, hybrid event scheduled for 30th May (Thursday) and 31st May (Friday) 2024\, from 9:00 to 17:00 (CET)\, and taking place at MediaFutures Research Centre as well as the Philosophy Department at UiB. \nOur goal is to bring together prominent scholars from different disciplines to discuss the impact of AI-based platforms\, and their underlying technological\, normative\, and economic principles\, on political discourse\, deep disagreement\, and conflict. \nThe event will draw on the Boston-Bergen Forum on Digital Futures—an international research network among the ‘Culture\, Society & Politics’ and the ‘Practical Philosophy’ research groups at UiB’s Philosophy Department\, SFI MediaFutures Research Centre Bergen\, the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston\, and the MIT Program Human Rights and Technology. \nConfirmed speakers for the event include \n\nKeynote by Natali Helberger (Amsterdam)\nGloria Origgi (CNRS Paris)\nAnna Maria Lorusso (Bologna)\nJoão Vieira Magalhães (Groningen)\nAnat Biletzki (Quinnipiac)\nLeif Hemming Pedersen (Roskilde).\nCarl Öhman (Uppsala)\nEugenia Stamboliev (Vienna)\nMark Thomas Young (UiB)\nAlec Stubbs (UMass Boston)\nMaria Brincker (UMass Boston)\nFilipe Campello (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)\nJacob Burley (UMass Boston & Harvard)\n\nTo join digitally\, please open the following zoom link. \n  \n			\n				Download the abstracts\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				First Workshop Day\, Thu.\, May 30th / Media City\, 3rd Floor / SUJO Undervisningsrom\n				09.00 am.: Welcome Notes \nSection I: Keynote \n09.15 am.: Natali Helberger (Amsterdam\, online): “ChatGPT: What is the Impact of LLMs on our Democracy?” \n09.45 am.: Q&A \nSection II: Algorithmic Injustice \n10.15 am.: Jacob Burley (UMass Boston & Harvard): “Algorithmic Agency!?” \n10:45 am.: Carl Öhman (Uppsala\, online): “Gods of Data: Language Models as the personified Authority of the Past” \n11.15 am.: Q&A \n12.00 am.: Lunch break \nSection II: Algorithmic Recognition \n13.15 pm.: Leif Hemming Pedersen (Roskilde): “Recognition Struggles in the (In)visibilization Society” \n13.45 pm.: João Vieira Magalhães (Groningen\, online): “The End of Recognition Theory?” \n14.15 pm.: Q&A \n15.00 pm.: Coffee break \nSection III: Political Technologies \n15.15 pm.: Mark Thomas Young (UiB) “What’s Missing from AI Ethics: Economics\, Politics and Power” \n15.45 pm.: Eugenia Stamboliev (Vienna\, online): “Trustworthy AI as a Politicized Conflict” \n16:15 pm.: Q&A \n17.00 pm.: End \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Second Workshop Day\, Fri.\, May 31st / Media City\, 3rd Floor / SUJO Undervisningsrom\n				09.45 am.: Welcome Note \nSection I: Algorithmic Epistemology \n10:00 am.: Gloria Origgi (CNRS Paris) “How Algorithms Deconstruct Collective Hermeneutical Resources” \n10:30 am.: Anna Maria Lorusso (Bologna) “Facts\, Fictions\, Gossips and other Truth Claims” \n11.15 am.: Q&A \n12.00 am.: Lunch break \nSection II: Activism and Philosophy in the Age of AI \n13.15 pm.: Maria Brincker (UMass Boston): “Responsible Agency and the Nature of Surveillance Effects” \n13.45 pm.: Anat Biletzki (Quinnipiac) “Israel 2023: A Tale of Two Conflicts” \n14.15 pm.: Q&A \n15.00 pm.: Coffee break \nSection III: Artificial Relations \n15.15 pm.: Filipe Campello (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco\, online): “Artificial Affects: Making AI a tool for Social Freedom” \n15.45 pm.: Alec Stubbs (UMass Boston\, online): “AI Friendship: On the Uncontrollability of the Other”
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/international-workshop-ai-political-conflict/
LOCATION:Media Futures at Media City Bergen\, 3rd Floor\, SUJO Undervisningsrom
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SUMMARY:Humaniora meets Artifical Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:UHR-Humaniora and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bergen invite to a conference on artificial intelligence and the humanities on May 31st. \nThe event will be in Norwegian.\nArtificial intelligence (AI) has opened up new possibilities for how we communicate\, create art\, and participate in democracy. However\, while the development of AI is often led by quantitative disciplines\, there is a growing need for insights from the humanities. The deep understanding of texts and cultural expressions provided by the humanities is crucial for guiding the development of AI in ways that both respect and reflect human experience and cultural diversity. \nThe goal of the conference is to emphasize the important role of the humanities in the development and understanding of AI. Therefore\, we aim to create a forum where humanities researchers can share knowledge\, explore new ideas and methods\, and build networks that can strengthen the humanities’ contribution to AI research. The conference will thus shed light on the ethical\, cultural\, and societal implications of AI\, and how the humanities contribute and can contribute to this exploration. \nThe program is still under development and will be updated and adjusted in spring 2024. \nProgram\nKonferansier: journalist og tidligere kultur- og debattredaktør i Bergens Tidende\, Hilde Sandvik. \n09:00 Velkommen \nPinar Heggernes\, prorektor ved Universitetet i Bergen\, åpner konferansen sammen med Frode Helland\, dekan ved Det humanistiske fakultet ved UiO og leder for UHR-Humaniora\, og Camilla Brautaset\, dekan ved Det humanistiske fakultet ved UiB. \nHvorfor trenger KI humaniora?  \nHva er språkmodeller egentlig?  \nSamia Touileb er førsteamanuensis i språkteknologi og forsker hovedsakelig på etiske og sosiale utfordringer ved språkteknologiske modeller.  I dette foredraget viser hun hvordan språkmodeller trenes\, hva slags data de er bygget på\, og hvordan de stadig blir mer avanserte. Touileb viser eksempler på hva språkmodeller kan brukes til\, i tilleg til å dele noen eksempler som illustrerer mulige utfordringer og problemstillinger ved bruk av språkmodeller. \nKan kunstig intelligens forstå språk?\nChatGPT og andre store språkmodeller viser imponerende resultater i en rekke oppgaver\, som for eksempel spørsmålsbesvarelse\, oversettelse og oppsummering. Selv oppgaver som å skrive dikt eller lage korte historier blir nå utført av språkmodeller. Men hvordan forstår egentlig en språkmodell innholdet i en tekst?  Pierre Lison er sjefsforsker ved Norsk Regnesentral hvor han jobber med maskinlæring og språkteknologi. Han inviterer oss med til en utforsking av hva som skiller en språkmodell fra menneskelig språkforståelse. \nEr kunstig intelligens bra for samisk?\nHva kan store språkmodeller lære om språk med begrenset tekstmateriale\, og hvordan påvirkes resultatene når modellene forsøker å kompensere for mangel på tekst ved å inkludere alle språk i samme analyse? Hilde Sandvik møter Trond Trosterud til samtale om Hvordan kunstig intelligens vil påvirke små språk som samisk.  Trond Trosterud er professor i samisk språkteknologi og leder av Giellatekno\, Senter for samisk språkteknologi ved Universitetet i Tromsø. \n10:00 Pause  \n10:30 Keynote: \nThe AI Mirror: Reclaiming our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking\nShannon Vallor \, professor ved Edinburgh Futures Institute\, University of Edinburgh. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies increasingly claim to be able to tell us who we are\, what we want\, what we can do\, and where we will go. Yet these predictions reflect only the choices we have already made\, not those still open to us. In this talk\, Professor Vallor acknowledges the power and utility of these new algorithmic mirrors\, while exposing the deception in their promise to define humanity and guide our shared futures. \n11:30 Lunsj  \nKunst\, medier og KI \n12:30 KI-forestillinger og humanioras sentrale rolle: Mellom hype\, dystopi og hverdagsliv\nTaina Bucher\, professor og forskningsleder ved Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon ved Universitetet i Oslo. I dette innlegget tar utgangsounkt i  “HumAIn: Reimagining AI” som er et nytt møtested for tverrfaglig forskning og utdanning innen humanistiske perspektiver på KI. Hubben utforsker både eksisterende historier og narrativ omkring KI\, i tillegg til å ha et uttalt mål om å utvikle nye forestillinger og fortellinger omkring hva KI kan og bør være. \nAI as Artistic Intelligence\nDavid Jhave Johnston is a digital-poet writing in emergent domains: A.I.\, 3D\, VR\, and code. Author-programmer of the multimedia human + A.I. writing art-project ReRites (Anteism Books\, 2019)\, the theoretical-history Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry’s Ontological Implications (MIT Press\, 2016)\, and many online multimedia literary explorations at www.glia.ca. He is currently employed as an Ai-narrative researcher at the UiB Centre for Digital Narrative from August 2023-26 on a team investigating Extending Digital Narrative. He will show and discuss a couple examples of #genAI as “artistic intelligence”\, using AI to simulate and stimulate insights into questions of identity.  \nAIwriting: Creative Practice as a Critical Method for Investigating Large Language Models\nIn this talk Scott Rettberg explores AI chatbots and text-to-image generation systems as writing environments\, and in turn considers how the production of sustained creative works in these environments can serve as critical digital humanities method that reveals the structure\, biases\, operations and effects of the models themselves. It considers the importance and function of human writing\, or “cyborg authorship” within these computational environments\, and their potentialities for new genres of dialogic digital narrative. Scott Rettberg is the Director of the Center for Digital Narrative and a professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. \n13:30 Pause  \n14:00 Shaking the black box: Creative approaches to generative models \nIn this talk Gabriele de Seta showcases some creative approaches to generative models\, which use machine learning to synthesize various kinds of content such as text\, images\, videos or sounds. Inspired by Malte Ziewitz’s idea of “shaking the black box”\, he proposes to a more critical and reflexive interaction with these new computational actors. Gabriele de Seta is\, technically\, a sociologist. He holds a PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. De Seta was part of the ERC-funded project “Machine Vision in Everyday Life” at the University of Bergen and is currently leading the ALGOFOLK TMS-funded project at the University of Bergen  \nAvsluttende diskusjon\nHilde Sandvik inviterer til oppsummering og paneldiskusjon med:    \nShannon Vallor\, professor at Edinburgh Futures Institute\, University of Edinburgh\nPinar Heggernes\, prorektor og leder for styringsgruppe UiB AI\nTaina Bucher\, professor og forskningsleder ved Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon ved Universitetet i Oslo\nSamia Touileb\, Samia Touileb\,  Førsteamanuensis i språkteknologi ved Universitetet i Bergen\nScott Rettberg\, Professor and Director for Center for Digtial Narrativ ved Universitetet I Bergen \nKonferansen avsluttes klokken 15:00 \nProgramkomite for konferansen:  professor Jill Walker Rettberg (UiB)\, professor Petter Bae Brandtzæg (UiO) og professor\, prodekan Aurora Hoel (NTNU) og professor Gillian C. Ramchand (UiT). 
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/humaniora-meet-artifical-intelligence/
LOCATION:Universitetet i Bergen\, Storsalen\, Nygårdsgaten 5
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Political news analysis by YouTubers : Initial results from quantitative processing of a textual corpus
DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures Work Package 1 and The Network for culture\, inequality and democracy (KUD/CID) at Infomedia invite to a public lecture on the topic of alternative political analysis on YouTube\, given by Quentin Gilliotte\, Professeur Junior at Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris\, France) There will be time for a Q&A.     \nThe productions on digital platforms are becoming an increasingly significant source of information. Within this context\, a large number of actors on digital platforms offer analyses and commentary on political current events. Within the Francophone space\, we find video creators such as HugoDécrypte\, Tatiana Ventôse\, Usul\, and Gaspard G. These actors place themselves in opposition to traditional media (television\, radio) : they advocate for an “alternative” way of handling information\, whether in terms of the audience they target\, the topics they cover\, or the formats they use. How do these different actors address political current events? Considering both economic models and political positions\, what topics are mobilized? \nThe communication will proceed in two stages. Firstly\, I will present the method for constructing the corpus of selected channels through data extraction from the YouTube API\, utilizing network analysis tools. Secondly\, I will present a mapping of the topics addressed by these different video creators based on the automated textual analysis of a corpus of 8740 transcribed videos (representing all videos published by the selected actors between January and July 2023) using a topic modeling method (Latent Dirichlet Allocation).
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/political-news-analysis-by-youtubers-initial-results-from-quantitative-processing-of-a-textual-corpus/
LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008
CATEGORIES:Events,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences
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