PhD halfway presentation by Peter Daniel Andrews
Nygårdsgaten 5, Nordre Allmenning 3 at LæringsarenaenOn November 28th, MediaFutures PhD candidate Peter Daniel Andrews will hold a midway presentation on his work. Anyone can drop by to listen and ask questions. Abstract Young adults rank among the least engaged consumers of digital news media. Generation Z predominantly engages with news through social media platforms, significantly altering traditional news consumption patterns. […]
Bergen-Boston Forum
Philosophy Department of the University of BergenWe are happy to invite to a two-day hybrid workshop about AI and the Future of Protest Politics: Politics and Emotions in the Age of Digital Transformation and Surveillance Capitalism. Our goal is to bring together prominent scholars from different disciplines to discuss the impact of AI-based platforms, and their underlying technological and economic principles, […]
What is News? Understanding news perceptions and practices among young adults
Digital media has fundamentally changed what news is: how it is produced, distributed, practiced and understood, particularly among young audiences, across the world. The concept of news is changing, as well as the information repertoires of young adults. These processes of transformation have had fundamental consequences not only for news industries, but also for news […]
Workshop on forthcoming AI calls from Horizon Europe and Digital Europe
OnlineNORA and the Oslo Cancer Cluster are collaborating to host a workshop that focuses on upcoming opportunities for EU funding in Artificial Intelligence. The session will highlight presentations covering AI subjects under Cluster 4: Digital, Industry, and Space within Horizon Europe and The Digital Europe Programme. Following these presentations, there will be group discussions in […]
A Norwegian Center for AI?
digitalMediaFutures partner NORA is organising a digital discussion on the allocation of the AI billion. In Norway, there is an ongoing discussion about how to best allocate the 'AI billion.' Some suggest that we should use various tools to support AI research, following the traditional approach of calling for proposals managed by The Research Council […]
Realizing AIs Potential at the Workplace – Can Copilot Unlock its Opportunities?
Terminushall, Jernbanebakken, 5015 BergenBergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry is hosting a meeting on AI at work. Amongst many others, also MediaFutures Associate Professor Samia Touileb is holding a speech about Limitations and Ethical Considerations Surrounding Language Models. Many have started to explore AI in the form of ChatGPT and similar services over the past year. We have […]
UiB AI #9 Trustworthy AI
Storsalen, Nygårdsgaten 5, første etasje.How do we work with trust in artificial intelligence? Meet our researchers and participate in the next UiB AI seminar! Artificial intelligence today is maybe not yet human-centric, but it is definitely human collaborative. That means that people use AI to augment their abilities: the spam filter saves me time, the route finder helps me […]
Women in AI 2024
Domus Bibliotheca, Karl Johans gate 47, 0162, OsloOn the 8th of March, MediaFutures partner NORA invites to the Women in AI celebration at Domus Bibliotheca, Oslo. The event will also be streamed live. Doors open at 17:30 - mineral water, refreshments & canapes will be served. Register here Together with our partners, NORA has dedicated efforts towards supporting universities, university colleges, research […]
Media Innovation Xchange. EU Conference on Digital Transformation and Media Innovation
digitalImmerse yourself in the future of European media and join the event in Brussels (or digitally) on March 13-14, 2024, for a conference on the digital transformation and innovation of the media sector. The media sector is in a constant state of flux, with many technological advances emerging at a rapid pace, bringing forth significant […]
CuttingEdgeAI: Open Norwegian language models as common property.
Domus Bibliotheca, Karl Johans gate 47, 0162, OsloEarlier this month, MediaFutures professor Lilja Øvrelid and Erik Velldal released in collaboration with other partners several Norwegian language models openly available and trained on open data. These have now been downloaded over 6000 times and put into active use. Now, NORA is organising a launch event, where they will present the models alongside their […]
Building to learn, not to launch
Lauritz Meltzers Hus - SV-bygget - Fosswinckelsgate 6 - - Auditorium Storetinget 1st floor, BergenApril 16, Lasse Mejlvang Tvedt, and Christopher Pearsell-Ross from Futures Lab will hold a guest lecture in professor Frode Guribyes course, where they talk about how Schibsted works with prototyping and AI to make new applications. Join Lasse Mejlvang Tvedt, Senior Creative Technologist, and Christopher Pearsell-Ross, Senior UX Designer, to learn more about how Schibsted […]
Christie Conference 2024
UiB Universitetsaulaen and onlineThe Christie Conference aims to be UiB's key forum connecting research, politics, administration, culture, society, and business. Held annually in late April at the University Aula, it's named after Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie, founder of Bergen Museum, a prominent political figure, and a bridge between the museum and societal stakeholders. On Tuesday, April 23rd, the […]