BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MediaFutures - ECPv6.15.13.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:MediaFutures X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://mediafutures.no X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MediaFutures REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Oslo BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240606T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240606T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063408 CREATED:20240514T134153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T134153Z UID:18212-1717675200-1717678800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Transparency\, Privacy\, and Fairness in Recommender Systems DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures has invited Dipl.Ing. Dr.techn. Dominik Kowald from Graz\, Austria to talk about transparency\, privacy and fairness in recommender systems. He is research area manager in Fair AI at the Know-Center and senior researcher and lecturer – ISDS (TU Graz). \nRecommender systems have become a pervasive part of our daily online experience by analyzing past usage behavior to suggest potential relevant content\, e.g.\, music\, movies\, or books. Today\, recommender systems are one of the most widely used applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Therefore\, regulations and requirements for trustworthy artificial intelligence\, for example\, the European AI Act\, which includes notions such as transparency\, privacy\, and fairness are also highly relevant for the design\, development\, evaluation\, and deployment of recommender systems in practice. \nThis talk elaborates on aspects related to these three notions in the light of recommender systems\, namely: (i) transparency and cognitive models\, (ii) privacy and limited preference information\, and (iii) fairness and popularity bias in recommender systems. Specifically\, with respect to aspect (i)\, I highlight the usefulness of incorporating psychological theories for a transparent design process of recommender systems. Additionally\, I show that cognitive models can further contribute to transparency aspects by illustrating how the models’ components have contributed to generate the recommendation lists. In aspect (ii)\, I study and address the trade-off between accuracy and privacy in differentially-private recommendations. \nDominic Kowald presents a novel recommendation approach for collaborative filtering based on an efficient neighborhood reuse concept\, which reduces the number of users that need to be protected with differential privacy. Furthermore\, he outlines the related issue of limited availability of user preference information\, e.g.\, click data\, in the settings of session-based recommendations\, by using variational autoencoders. With respect to aspect (iii)\, he discusses popularity bias in collaborative filtering-based recommender systems and shows that the recommendation frequency of an item is positively correlated with this item’s popularity. This also leads to the unfair treatment of users with little interest in popular content\, since these users receive worse recommendation accuracy results than users with high interest in popular content. Besides\, Kowald presents results of an online study on popularity bias mitigation in the field of news article recommendations. He closes the talk by illustrating the trade-off between privacy and popularity bias in recommender systems and by outlining future research possibilities in this direction. \nAfter the talk\, Kowald will present the Know-Center\, and some of their success stories and lessons learned of applied research projects with industry partners. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/transparency-privacy-and-fairness-in-recommender-systems/ LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008 CATEGORIES:Events,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-20-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240605T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240605T173000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063408 CREATED:20240506T143914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240506T143953Z UID:18190-1717576200-1717608600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:AI Regulation and Governance: A Cross-Jurisdictional Approach DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures associate professor Samie Touileb is giving a keynote speech on AI technology at this conference. \nWith the EU’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act being adopted and various major jurisdictions deliberating AI policy at both national and international levels\, this conference provides a timely platform to navigate the myriad legal and policy issues AI presents\, from intellectual property and tort law to safety legislation. The conference contributes to shaping the discourse on the governance of artificial intelligence in Europe and beyond. \nPreliminary Programme\n08:30: Registration and Welcome Coffee \nOpening Session \n09:00: Opening Remarks (Tobias Mahler) \n09:10: Key Note: AI Technology (Samia Touileb)\n09:45: Break \nArtificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property \n(Chair: Ole-Andreas Rognstad) \n09:55: Copyright Protection of AI-Generated Outputs (Tito Rendas) \n10:30: AI and Copyright (Guro Bøe Linnet) \n11:05 Break \nDigital Constitutionalism and the AI Goveranance Discourse \n(Chair: Ingunn Ikdahl TBC) \n11:20: AI and Digital Constitutionalism (Giovanni de Gregorio) \n11:55: Rhetoric and Reality in AI Policy and Practice (Heather Broomfield) \n12:30: Lunch Break \nAI and Civil Liability \n(Chair: Johannes Hygen Meyer) \n13:30: The EU’s Proposed AI Liability Directive (Henrique Sousa Antunes) \n14:05: AI Liability and Norwegian Tort Law (Anne Marie Frøseth) \n14.40 Break \nThe EU AI Act and its Alternatives \n(Chair: Samson Esayas) \n15:00: Lessons Learned from the Drafting of the AI Act (Vera Lucia Raposo) \n15:35: Decent Law: Envisioning a Decentralized\, AI-optimized Legal Regime (Samuel Becher) \n16:10: Break \nConcluding Session \n(Chair Rebecca Schmidt) \n16:25: AI Risk in an International Context (Tobias Mahler) \n17:00 Concluding Discussion \n17:25 Closing Remarks (Henrique Sousa Antunes) \n17:30 Reception \n  \nRegistration closed\nAttendance is gratis but the conference is completely booked. You can sign up for a growing waiting list until May 26th 2024 via this online form. Stay tuned for information about web streaming! \nThe conference is organised by the UiO’s Research Group on Law and Technology and held under the aegis of the research project ‘Vulnerability in the Robot Society’ (VIROS). The VIROS project is run by the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL) in collaboration with the Robots and Intelligent Systems (ROBIN) group at the Department of Informatics\, University of Oslo. It is funded by the Research Council of Norway. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/ai-regulation-and-governance-a-cross-jurisdictional-approach/ LOCATION:Domus Bibliotheca\, Karl Johans gate 47\, 0162\, Oslo CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/rtgregytergf.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240604T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240604T112000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063408 CREATED:20240603T122232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240603T122232Z UID:18885-1717498800-1717500000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:One size fits one - accessibility through preferences DESCRIPTION:Yngvar Nordberg\, representing TV 2 Skole AS and WP4 on Media Content Interaction & Accessibility\, will be an invited presenter at the COST LEAD-ME Seminar on “Media Accessibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”\, taking place on June 4\, 2024\, at the St. Raphael Resort\, Limassol\, Cyprus.\n\n \nRemote participants are welcome: \nVideo call link: https://meet.google.com/mdr-wyvp-ccm \nYngvar Nordberg\, TV 2 Skole AS and WP4\, title: \nOne size fits one – accessibility through preferences \n\nIn 1992\, all state-run special schools were closed with the exception of schools for sign language students. The ideology was that special education should take place in a classroom setting together with peers at the local school. In the compulsory primary school\, achieving a ‘school for all’\, or one that is fully inclusive\, is an important policy goal and part of the official aims behind the system of education for all children in Norway. TV 2 Schools educational web-service – elevkanalen.no – has for more than 10 years developed an API that governs a very successful preference-dashboard. Teacher set preferences on his/her pupils. Eye-gaze navigation\, one-button navigation\, two-button navigation etc.; symbol-support; background colors\, font color – It is a user-centric design backed up by national activities in Standards Norway Committee 607 and ongoing work in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 36/WG 7 – metadata for individualized accessibility. To achieve true accessibility – AI is obviously the road ahead. Machine learning that automatically detects the users needs is already a component in our one fits one approach\, but we need more. This goes for navigation – AI-driven eye-gaze calibration AI-driven tasks like alt-text to pictures\, and captions to film for the blind; text-levels etc. We believe our activities already has a proven potential outside our own organisation in Norway and would love to present them in a Lead-Me – context. \nMore on COST LEAD-ME: \n\nLEAD-ME aims to help European stakeholders in the field of Media Accessibility to meet legal milestones requested by European legislation. Researchers\, engineers and scholars as well as businesses and policy makers will be empowered by LEAD-ME with a common and unique platform which will collect\, create\, and disseminate innovative technologies and solutions\, best practices and guidelines.\nhttps://lead-me-cost.eu/ URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/one-size-fits-one-accessibility-through-preferences/ LOCATION:Remote CATEGORIES:Events,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-1-5-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240531T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240531T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063408 CREATED:20240513T105813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T105419Z UID:18214-1717156800-1717160400@mediafutures.no 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-21.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240531T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240531T150000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063408 CREATED:20240227T125237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T154214Z UID:17887-1717146000-1717167600@mediafutures.no 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_1090029848.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240530T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240531T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063408 CREATED:20240405T130625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T115335Z UID:17990-1717059600-1717174800@mediafutures.no 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 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/bergen-boston.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240529T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240530T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240506T144608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240506T144608Z UID:18193-1716980400-1717088400@mediafutures.no 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/bransjedager_2024_2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240523T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240523T094500 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240513T111046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240513T111046Z UID:18218-1716454800-1716457500@mediafutures.no 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/47809761031_d394ff0acc_c.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240503T121500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240503T153000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240502T121111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240502T121111Z UID:18184-1714738500-1714750200@mediafutures.no 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/ LOCATION:digital CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-20.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240503T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240503T123000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240425T090917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T090917Z UID:18080-1714730400-1714739400@mediafutures.no 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 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/stud-demo-1-e1713170107642-1536x706-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240502T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240502T164000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240426T090433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T091440Z UID:18106-1714665600-1714668000@mediafutures.no 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot-2024-04-26-at-11-03-40-NMD-fordypning-ChatGPT-Copilot-og-Bard-–-hvordan-fungerer-store….png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240502T124500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240504T134500 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240205T104230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T091405Z UID:17647-1714653900-1714830300@mediafutures.no 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/norske-mediedager.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240502T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240502T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240426T091237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T091339Z UID:18112-1714644000-1714658400@mediafutures.no 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot-2024-04-26-at-11-12-00-AI-og-mediebransjen-Hvor-er-vi-Hvor-gar-vi.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240423T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240423T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240108T110632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T110632Z UID:17524-1713859200-1713891600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Christie Conference 2024 DESCRIPTION:The 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 Christie Conference 2024 takes place at the University Aula. \nThis year\, our focus turns to Europe\, asking: What will Europe look like in 10 years\, and how can Bergen and Norway influence its development? \nFuture of Europe – What Opportunities Lie Ahead?\nEurope is a vital part of our identity\, offering some of the best in art\, culture\, research\, and humanism. Since the Second World War\, and particularly after the fall of the Berlin Wall\, cooperation\, shared institutions\, and efforts toward peaceful coexistence have made significant progress. Geopolitical changes\, such as the pandemic\, rising nationalism\, deglobalization\, and the conflict in Ukraine\, have altered this trajectory. Norway now faces a different Europe than it did just five years ago. \nAt the Christie Conference\, we look forward and discuss: \nDoes Europe possess the tools needed to tackle future challenges? What role does Norway play as an energy supplier\, an industrial nation\, and in security policy? How can Bergen and Norway contribute to the future of Europe? \nWe invite you to engaging discussions among key figures in research\, society\, business\, and culture. \nThe final program and registration will be available in February\, but mark your calendars for April 23\, 2024. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/christie-conference-2024/ LOCATION:UiB Universitetsaulaen and online CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/christie_logo_firkant-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240416T141500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240416T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240411T131246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T131853Z UID:18022-1713276900-1713283200@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Building to learn\, not to launch DESCRIPTION:April 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. \nJoin Lasse Mejlvang Tvedt\, Senior Creative Technologist\, and Christopher Pearsell-Ross\, Senior UX Designer\, to learn more about how Schibsted Futures Lab uses strategic foresight\, speculative design\, and technical prototyping to explore AI and emerging user interfaces. Their work spans virtual avatars\, automated news summarisation\, conversational interfaces\, automated AI agents\, and spatial computing. \nSchibsted Futures Lab was established almost two years ago with the intention to explore scenarios that may impact Schibsted. Schibsted Futures Lab is headed by Andreas Bengtsson\, who was one one the panel participants at MediaFutures Annual Meeting 2023. \n““And note: The name is Schibsted Futures Lab\, not Future Lab. The “s” in the name underlines that there are multiple possible futures\, not only one. We don’t pretend to know the answer\, but will be exploring different directions\,” says Andreas Bengtsson at the launch of Futures Lab. \nThe lecture is open for all and takes place at Lauritz Meltzers Hus in SV-bygget\, Auditorium Storetinget 1st floor. No sign up required. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/building-to-learn-not-to-launch/ LOCATION:Lauritz Meltzers Hus\, - SV-bygget - Fosswinckelsgate 6 - - Auditorium Storetinget 1st floor\, Bergen CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-14.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240412T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240412T151500 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240403T130754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T102439Z UID:17984-1712926800-1712934900@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:CuttingEdgeAI: Open Norwegian language models as common property. DESCRIPTION:Earlier 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 collaborators and discuss the way forward for open Norwegian language models as common property. \nWhat to expect: \nLarge Language Models (LLMs) are the technology behind services like ChatGPT\, Google Gemini\, or Microsoft Copilot. These are examples of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms that can seemingly independently create text\, images\, sound\, or even video. The underlying technology is large-scale machine learning\, a combination of vast amounts of data and computational power. The data these models are trained on is crucial for their behavior\, including knowledge of language\, values\, and sociocultural contexts. \nGenerative AI will continue to have profound effects on society. The development is dominated by large American technology companies\, mostly behind closed doors\, where smaller languages like Norwegian are not a priority. It is necessary for Norway to take action to preserve our digital autonomy. We need open Norwegian language models that more accurately reflect Scandinavian culture and values. \nThis event provides insights into the technology and ongoing efforts\, including those at the University of Oslo and the National Library\, to offer open generative language models specifically tailored to the Norwegian language for use in both research and commercial development. Several Norwegian language models trained on the European supercomputer LUMI were made openly available in February 2024. Within a few weeks\, these models were downloaded thousands of times. \nYou can register for the event by clicking on the link below event tags. \nProgram:\n\n\n\nTid\nTittel\nForedragsholder\n\n\n\n\n12:30 – 13:00\nRegistrering\n\n\n\n13:00 – 13:05\nVelkommen\nKlas Pettersen\, NORA.\n\n\n13:05 – 13:20\nHvordan fungerer GPT-språkmaskineriet\nStephan Oepen\, UiO.\n\n\n13:20 – 13:45\nLansering av nye store og åpne norske språkmodeller\nLilja Øvrelid\, UiO; \nErik Velldal\, UiO; \nAndrey Kutuzov\, UiO; \nDavid Samuel\, UiO.\n\n\n13:45 – 13:55\nDigitale norske språkdata ved Nasjonalbiblioteket\nSvein Arne Brygfjeld\, NB.\n\n\n13:55 – 14:10\nHvordan bruke norske språkmodeller i praksis? Erfaringer fra Schibsted\nSimen Eide\, Leder for Schibsteds AI Enablement Program.\n\n\n14:10 – 14:20\nLUMI: Lagrings- og beregningsinfrastruktur for storskala KI\nGunnar Bøe\, Managing Director\, Sigma2.\n\n\n14:20 – 15:10\nPanelsamtale: Samfunnsbehov og risikoer knyttet til store språkmodeller\nModerator: Klas Pettersen \nPanelister: \n– Aslak Sira Myhre\, NB \n– Gunnar Bøe\, Sigma2 \n– Lilja Øvrelid\, UiO \n– Sven Størmer Thaulow\, Schibsted \n– Åse Wetås\, Språkrådet\n\n\n15:10 – 15:15\nAvslutning URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/cuttingedgeai-nora-llm-open-norwegian-language-models-as-common-property/ LOCATION:Domus Bibliotheca\, Karl Johans gate 47\, 0162\, Oslo CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/cuttingedgeai-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240313T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240314T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240301T095033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240301T095349Z UID:17902-1710316800-1710435600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Media Innovation Xchange. EU Conference on Digital Transformation and Media Innovation DESCRIPTION:Immerse 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 opportunities as well as unprecedented challenges. On March 13 and 14\, the Flanders Department of Culture\, Youth and Media delves deeper into this during the Media Innovation Xchange conference in Brussels. Policymakers and stakeholders from both Belgium and other EU member states will have the opportunity to exchange knowledge and expertise\, gain inspiration\, and establish international contacts. \n\n\n\nWhat can you expect?\nEnjoy a line-up of inspiring speakers and fascinating showcases and explore the rapid advancements and challenges in media brought forth by technological innovations. See the program in the link below. \nYou can expect topics such as: \n\nEuropean video game sector and media crossovers\nArtificial intelligence (AI) and Extended Reality (XR)\nData driven media industry\nInnovation to counter\, detect and refute disinformation\nEuropean broadcasters: staying relevant through technology and innovation\nReaching younger audiences\n\nTo join online\, please register at the bottom of the page in the link below. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/media-innovation-xchange-eu-conference-on-digital-transformation-and-media-innovation/ LOCATION:digital CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/7634_y23_vo_branding_conferenties_eu_voorzitterschap_conceptfase_websitebanner_1600x300_mix_043.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240308T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240308T200000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240118T123145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240118T123600Z UID:17571-1709920800-1709928000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Women in AI 2024 DESCRIPTION:On 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. \nDoors open at 17:30 – mineral water\, refreshments & canapes will be served. \nRegister here\nTogether with our partners\, NORA has dedicated efforts towards sup­porting universities\, university colleges\, research institutions\, startups\, companies and individual researchers who wish to discuss and address the diversity and gender gap in AI research\, education and in industry. By focusing on the topic and by providing a platform for open discussion\, NORA aims to develop and support initiatives that can increase the inclusion of a more diverse workforce in AI. Together\, we can inspire a more inclusive agenda within the otherwise male-dominated field of AI and ensure equal access and equal opportunities for future generations. Our collective goal should be to bring awareness by promoting female role models\, and by portraying the breadth of opportunities for AI in society at large. \nOn the 8th of March\, we invite you to join us for an evening event where we discuss the situation of gender and diversity in AI today and measures needed in effort to tackle inequality and mitigate bias in the field of artificial intelligence. \nDuring this Women and AI event\, we will bring together representatives from industry and research to address the gender disparity in AI in Norway and the world today\, and discuss initiatives to ensure inclusivity and diversity in AI for the future. \nProgram:\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nTime\nSpeaker\n\n\n18:00-18:10\nWelcome!\n\n\n18:10-18:20\nSpeaker: Ajla Gasal\, \nChief editor at the non-profit Sciencious\, ambassador of the Norwegian WiSTEM chapter\, TEDx speaker\, author and active member of her student government.\n\n\n18:20-18:40\nKeynote 1: \nHilde G. Corneliussen\, Research Professor and Research Leader\, Vestlandsforsking\n\n\n18:40-19:00\nKeynote 2: \nIeva Martinkenaite\, SVP\, Head of Research and Innovation\n\n\n19:00-19:20\nKeynote 3: \nRebecca Wiborg Seyfarth\, VP Engineering\, Völur\n\n\n19:20-20:00\nPanel discussion\n\n\n20:00-21:00\nNetworking and mingling URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/women-in-ai-2024/ LOCATION:Domus Bibliotheca\, Karl Johans gate 47\, 0162\, Oslo CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/women-in-ai-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240308T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240308T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240226T111112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240226T111112Z UID:17882-1709892000-1709899200@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:UiB AI #9 Trustworthy AI DESCRIPTION:How do we work with trust in artificial intelligence? Meet our researchers and participate in the next UiB AI seminar! \nArtificial 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 orient\, the speech to text helps me caption videos\, the video editor helps me change from vertical to horizontal format without losing the important objects in the video. Also\, AI requires constant human support: to clean\, label and overall preprocess data for learning algorithms\, to identify and correct mistakes\, to do the unusual non-typical tasks that an AI cannot handle. Much has been said about the trustworthiness of AI in recent years. Trust is a relational property between people that can facilitate or hinder collaboration. Trustworthiness is a value that we would AI to be aligned with. \nThe department of Information Science and Media Studies and the faculty of social sciences is concerned with the social and collaborative aspects and properties of AI. In this edition of the UiB AI seminar series\, they showcase four research examples on how they work with trust and AI. The short presentations will be followed by a panel debate. \nProgram\nCreating Embodied Artificial Trustworthiness \nby Ragnhild Mølster (presenter) and Jens Elmelund Kjeldsen \nShould we trust the world with a IP-hungry AI in it? \nby Richard Misek \nTrustworthy journalism through AI \nby Andreas Lothe Opdahl\, based on a paper \nTrust but verify \nby Rustam Galimullin \n  \nPanel: should we seek trustworthiness for AI or for its human collaborators? \nParticipants: TBD \nModerator: Marija Slavkovik URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/uib-ai-9-trustworthy-ai/ LOCATION:Storsalen\, Nygårdsgaten 5\, første etasje. CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/uib_ai6_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240221T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240221T100000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240219T091618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T091847Z UID:17850-1708504200-1708509600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Realizing AIs Potential at the Workplace - Can Copilot Unlock its Opportunities? DESCRIPTION:Bergen 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. \nMany have started to explore AI in the form of ChatGPT and similar services over the past year. We have seen countless videos depicting how fantastic it will be to have artificial intelligence on our side\, and some have already begun implementing what many are eagerly awaiting: Copilot. Copilot is predicted to revolutionize the workday for many\, and the Bergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry is excited to invite you to a live demonstration of this groundbreaking tool that not only promises to streamline but truly transform the way we work. \nThe meeting will begin with an introduction to Copilot\, hold by Lars-Christian Ryland\, Senior manager i KPMG and Marie Killi\, Associate i KPMG. Later on Hans-Fredrik Pedersen from Microsoft Norge will demonstrate Copilot and sit in a panel discussion with Samia Touileb. \nPlease register here before the 20th of February to join the event. \n  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/realizing-the-ai-potential-in-the-workplace-can-copilot-unlock-the-opportunities/ LOCATION:Terminushall\, Jernbanebakken\, 5015 Bergen CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/illustrasjonsbilde-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240129T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240129T113000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20240125T105018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240125T105018Z UID:17596-1706522400-1706527800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:A Norwegian Center for AI? DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures partner NORA is organising a digital discussion on the allocation of the AI billion. \nIn 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 of Norway’s portfolio management. This method is well-established\, offering flexibility\, utilizing existing infrastructure\, and enabling quick announcements of proposal calls. \nOn the other hand\, others believe that we have a unique opportunity for a more concentrated and coordinated effort\, bringing together different disciplines\, stakeholders\, and sectors through a centralized solution\, which involves a distributed center approach. This could enhance coordination and create networks and meeting spaces that are challenging to establish using more conventional methods. \nSince the latter solution is less common and relatively unfamiliar in Norway\, we are actively seeking insights from various AI centers and networks in successful European nations to learn about their operational structures. \nProgram: \n10:00-10:05: Klas Pettersen\, CEO NORA\, Welcome and short introduction\n10:05-10:25: Serge Belongie\, Director\, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence (Denmark)\n10:25-10:35: Questions to Serge Belongie\n10:35-10:55: Simon Reeve\, Director for Innovation\, The Alan Turing Institute (UK)\n10:55-11:00: Questions to Simon Reeve\n11:00-11:20: Samuel Kaski\, director\, Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI (Finland)\n11:20-11:30: Questions to Samuel Kaski/Petri Myllymaki (and others) URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/a-norwegian-center-for-ai/ LOCATION:digital CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/designeventfirstversion.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231213T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231213T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20231206T121643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231206T121643Z UID:17090-1702458000-1702468800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Workshop on forthcoming AI calls from Horizon Europe and Digital Europe DESCRIPTION:NORA 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 breakout sessions. \nThe workshop will conclude with AI Sweden presenting their work and providing valuable insights into the prerequisites for achieving success with multimodal models in both Europe and the Nordic region. \nThis workshop offers a hybrid format\, allowing participants to attend either physically or online. However\, please be aware that physical attendance is restricted to 30 individuals on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/workshop-on-forthcoming-ai-calls-from-horizon-europe-and-digital-europe/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/dall·e-2023-11-24-11.42.23-a-promotional-poster-for-an-eu-info-event-focused-on-ai.-the-european-union-eu-flag-is-prominently-displayed-in-the-center-with-its-circle-of-gold-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231204T131500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231204T150000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20231124T134545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231129T133654Z UID:16953-1701695700-1701702000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:What is News? Understanding news perceptions and practices among young adults DESCRIPTION: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 research\, and journalism studies. How can we study news if we do not know what it is? \nThis seminar presents “What is News?”\, a research project approaching news as a concept in flux\, using phenomenological theory and an open methodology aiming at understanding the experience of news\, rather than news as a fixed concept. It discusses how the phenomenological approach may gain new insights into what news is\, and what information means to young people today. \nBy presenting the work with the forthcoming book Navigating the News: Young people\, Digital Culture and Everyday Life building on an extensive ethnography of news practices and perceptions among a broad range of youth in Sweden\, the seminar will discuss how the digitisation of news has shaped young people’s understanding of what news is\, how it is relevant\, trusted and used in the temporalities and spatialities of everyday life. The presentation pays attention to the blurring boundaries between news and social media\, highlighting how new media categories such as influencers\, memes and hybrid information can take on the status of news for young audiences. \nSpeaker: Stina Bengtsson\, professor\, Södertörn University\, Stockholm. \nStina Bengtsson is professor in Media and Communication Studies. She is currently doing research about media and everyday life\, digital media morality and ethics\, youth culture\, taste and power. She teaches the course Media and Everyday Life at the masters programme Media\, Communication and Everyday Life and are involved in courses also at the bachelor programmes second and third year. \nSign up By email to Lene Angelskår URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/what-is-news-understanding-news-perceptions-and-practices-among-young-adults/ CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-1-6.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231130T091500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231201T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20230530T100919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231129T103800Z UID:15242-1701335700-1701450000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Bergen-Boston Forum DESCRIPTION:We 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. \nOur 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\, on political discourse and protest.  \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\, the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston\, and the MIT Program Human Rights and Technology.  \nMediaFutures center director Christoph Tratter is co-leading the project together with Professor Franz Knappik (Bergen)\, Dr. Christopher Senf (Bergen) and Professor Nir Eisikovist (UMass). \n\nWHERE: The Philosophy Department in Bergen\, Sydnesplassen 12/13\, seminarrommet i 1. etasje \nAs it is a hybrid event\, you can join the event in person or via zoom. \nRegister here\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n1st Workshop Day\, Thursday\, November 30th\n\n\n\n09.15 am\nWelcome Note\n\n\n\nSection I:     Making AI Intelligible\n\n\n\n09.30 am\nKeynote by Herman Cappelen (Hong Kong\, online):“AI and The Commodification of Meaning”\n\n\n10.15 am\nQ&A (Moderation\, Jesse Tomalty)\n\n\n11.00 am\nRosalie Waelen (Bonn):“The Struggle for Recognition and AI’s Impact on Self-development”\n\n\n11.30 am\nQ&A (Moderation\, Chris Senf)\n\n\n12.30 am\nLunch break at Café Christie\n\n\nSection II:     Contesting the Attention Economy\n\n\n13.45 pm\nSebastian Watzl (Oslo):“What is Wrong with How Attention is Commodified?”\n\n\n14.30 pm\n James Williams: “tba” \n\n\n15.00 pm\nQ&A (Moderation\, Alec Stubbs)\n\n\nSection III:    Algorithms of (In)justice\n\n\n15.45 pm\nKjetil Rommetveit (Bergen):“(How) Can you code rights and morality into digital infrastructures and AIs?”\n\n\n16.15 pm\nAlec Stubbs (UMass\, Boston):“Generative AI and the future of Work”\n\n\n16:45 pm\nQ&A (Moderation\, Carlota Salvador Megias)\n\n\n17.30 pm\nEnd\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n2nd Workshop Day\, Friday\, December 1st\n\n\n\n10.00 am\nWelcome Note\n\n\n\nSection I:     Political Technologies\n\n\n\n10.15 am\n Eugenia Stamboliev (Vienna):“Protesting the Classification of Emotions (affects) and its Technological means”\n\n\n10.45 am\nJames Hughes (UMass\, Boston):“Communication Technologies: Hegemonic\, Radicalizing and Democratic”\n\n\n11.15 am\n Q&A (Moderation\, Alec Stubbs)\n\n\n12.15 am\nLunch break at Café Christie\n\n\nSection II:     Future of Protest Movements\n\n\n13:30 pm\n Paul Raekstad (Amsterdam):“Domination Without Dominators: The Impersonal Causes of Oppression”\n\n\n14:00 pm\nChristopher Senf (Bergen):“Algorithmic Exploitation of Recognition”\n\n\n14.30 pm\nQ&A (Moderation\, Ane Engelstad)\n\n\n15.15 pm\nCoffee break\n\n\nSection III     Activism and Philosophy in the Age of AI\n\n\n15.30 pm\nMaria Brincker (UMass Boston\, online):“What kind of space is a ‘platform’ with its own goals?”\n\n\n16.00 pm\nKade Crockford (ACLU Massachusetts & MIT Media Lab\, online):“All Politics is Local: Fighting Face Surveillance from the Ground Up in Massachusetts”\n\n\n16.30 pm\nQ&A (Moderation\, Chris Senf)\n\n\n17:30 pm\nEnd\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Abstracts: \n1)   Herman Wright Cappelen (Hong Kong) \n“AI and the Commodification of Meaning” \nAI systems\, owned by private corporations\, will soon have the ability to control the meaning of the sentences we speak and interpret. This can be seen as a form of commodification of speech act content\, a more serious form of commodification than e.g.\, artistic commodification. The determination of meaning by AI raises concerns about corporate control over language\, reminiscent of Orwellian scenarios. Often\, the goals behind these communicative exchanges will be foreign to individuals\, who may not endorse or even be aware of them. The result is a form of meaning alienation.  \n2)   Rosalie Waelen (Bonn)  \n“The struggle for recognition and AI’s impact on self-development” \nCritical theories\, with their focus on power dynamics and emancipation\, offer a valuable basis for the analysis of AI’s social and political impact. Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition is one such critical theory. Honneth’s theory of recognition adds to the present AI ethics debate\, because it shines light on the different ways in which AI reinforces or exacerbates struggles for recognition. Moreover\, through the lens of Honneth’s theory of recognition\, one learns how AI can harm people’s self-development. This presentation highlights some of those contemporary struggles for recognition and their (potential) impact on people´s self-development.   \n3)   Sebastian Watzl (UiO Oslo) \n“What is Wrong with How Attention is Commodified?” \nOur attention is commodified: it is bought and sold in market transactions when individuals lend out the ability to control their attentional capacities in exchange (for example) for technological services. What is wrong with that? Attention markets\, we argue\, resemble labor markets. By drawing on the ethics of commodification and core features of attention\, we show that attention markets\, while not always morally wrong\, carry special moral risks: because of how attention shapes beliefs and desires\, subjective experience and action\, they are prone to be disrespectful\, alienating\, and provide fertile grounds for domination. Our analysis calls for regulatory interventions.  \n4)   James Williams  \ntba   \n5)   Kjetil Rommetveit (UiB Bergen) \n“(How) Can you code rights and morality into digital infrastructures and AIs?”     \nIn 1980 philosopher of technology Langdon Winner famously asked ‘Do Artifacts Have Politics?’ This question was followed up by Latour’s (1994) and Verbeek’s (2008) analyses of technological mediation of morality. Whereas these questions were once provocative\, in recent AI regulations they have become part of official governance mechanisms. In this talk I present some novel approaches to governance in the EU through\, specifically the risk-based approach and the design-based approach. Situating these within a wider techno-regulatory imaginary\, I provide examples of how these instruments play out in practice. I end on some critical questions: what kind of politics do in-built morality have? And what implications can be discerned for critical publics?    \n6)   Alec Stubbs (UMass Boston)  \n“Generative AI and the Future of Work” \nThis talk intertwines André Gorz’s post-work philosophy with Herbert Marcuse’s critical theory to envision a democratized future in which generative AI serves the productive aims of society. The talk evaluates the pitfalls of generative AI in reshaping labor\, including the likelihood of technological unemployment\, downward pressure on wages\, and deskilling of workers. The discussion also evaluates the potential of generative AI in reshaping labor\, emphasizing the need for a demand for the reduction of the workweek in leftist politics and labor struggles. Central to the argument is Gorz’s imperative to redefine work’s role in a technologically advanced\, equitable society.   \n7)   Eugenia Stamboliev (Vienna) \n“Protesting the classification of emotions (affects) and its technological means”  \nTo critique affect technology\, we need to politicize emotionality and affectivity newly. Today\, we are witnessing the emergence of intrusive algorithmic technologies\, such as AI\, in our daily lives. These technologies\, designed to measure and control lives\, information\, and data\, are intended to nudge and influence our political moods and public sentiments as much as they are to measure expressions and emotions. In this talk\, I will discuss the history of two types of “affect technologies” (AT) and offer some criticism on their goals and applications. First\, ATs intended to measure and classify emotions and affection emerged from the cognitive turn in computer studies. While popular\, these ATs are normatively problematic and flawed\, but still influence the design and economic models underlying many recognition systems. Second\, ATs expected to drive\, manage\, and influence political beliefs and public moods are underlining architectures that do more than manage emotions via technological means\, but they are part of the devaluation of emotions through political campaigning. Protesting the shortcomings of ATs\, means calling into question both the normative and political agendas underlying affect technologies\, as well as offering new and positive approaches on affectivity that are beyond the scope of measurement and control\, but remain politically crucial for democratic protest while avoiding commercial and technical exploitation.   \n8)   James J. Hughes (UMass Boston & IEET) \n“Communication Technologies: Hegemonic\, Radicalizing and Democratic” \nBooks\, radio and television all transformed political mobilization\, by both elites and radicals. How different is the Internet\, social media and algorithmically driven communication? Are we more likely to form radical sub-communities\, each with its own reality (e.g. MAGA)? Can we envision democratic countervailing institutions emerging from the “commodification\, outrageification\, and gamification of protest” by platform companies? Will the algorithmic rules and required moderation included in the EU AI Act\, DMA and DSA reduce ideological hegemony\, improve collaboration and decrease toxicity in these environments?   \n9)   Paul Raekstad (Amsterdam) \n“Domination Without Dominators: The Impersonal Causes of Oppression” \nSocial movements of the last centuries have been naming and analyzing the complex forms of personal and impersonal domination that they fight to overcome. Yet current theories of domination have largely been unable to make sense of the latter. Theories of domination as being subject to the will\, or arbitrary power\, of another rule them out\, while extant theories of impersonal domination are often unsystematic or narrowly focused. My paper tries to remedy this by developing a systematic theory of impersonal domination\, distinguish some important types thereof\, and show why it matters for universal human emancipation.    \n10)  Christopher Senf (UiB Bergen) \n“Algorithmic Exploitation of Recognition” \ntba   \n11)  Maria Brincker (UMass Boston) \n“What kind of space is a ‘platform’ with its own goals?” \nHow are we to understand our political actions on surveillance and algorithm-driven for-profit platforms? Current social media platforms present users with possibilities of building vast networks and achieving massive\, fast reach to highly dispersed groups. Hence\, they present incredible opportunities for expanded agency\, organizing\, and information sharing. However\, these platform ecosystems also present users with highly unusual affordance spaces\, which might pose challenges to our agency. Proprietary algorithms\, vast data harvesting and camouflaged behavior modification tools are used to drive platform company interests – often conflicting with those of users. We engage in political movements to shape the future\, but how do our actions on these platforms in fact shape our future and our extra-situational spaces?   \n12)  Kade Crockford (ACLU & MIT) \n“All Politics is Local: Fighting Face Surveillance from the Ground Up in Massachusetts” \nIn 2019\, the ACLU of Massachusetts launched a campaign to bring democratic control over government use of facial surveillance technology. Over the following two years\, we passed eight bans on government use of face surveillance in cities and towns across the state\, including in Massachusetts’ four largest cities: Boston\, Cambridge\, Springfield\, and Worcester. We also passed a state law creating some regulations on police use of the technology statewide. During this talk\, campaign leader Kade Crockford will discuss how the ACLU’s campaigners dreamed big\, built a coalition\, and fought from the ground up to defeat the narrative of technological determinism\, and how you can do it\, too. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/bergen-boston-forum-2023-2024/ LOCATION:Philosophy Department of the University of Bergen\, Norway CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-1-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231128T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231128T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20231124T132658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231124T135718Z UID:16938-1701165600-1701172800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:PhD halfway presentation by Peter Daniel Andrews DESCRIPTION:On 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. \nAbstract \nYoung 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. While viewing video content\, Generation Z often simultaneously engages with social media and online resources\, redefining traditional viewing paradigms. Cross-device multitasking primarily facilitates the search for relevant information across multiple platforms\, thereby enhancing media contextualization. Simultaneously\, it leverages social media to transform individual experiences into collaborative endeavors. This project aims to encapsulate the cross-device experience into a single platform where young adults can interact with video content to explore information\, improving their understanding and accessibility of digital news media. Integrating an interactive platform atop video content provides a more immersive and engaging experience. However\, to make video interactive\, it is first necessary to extract contextual information so users can easily interact with content. Recent advances in Computer Vision (CV) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have allowed for more sophisticated video content analysis. Using Object Detection and Multi-Object Tracking (MOT)\, contextual data is drawn from the video content and linked to relevant identities. By linking these identities to an external dataset resource\, information regarding and surrounding content within the video becomes accessible for the user to assist in exploring digital news media. The user then has the freedom to explore and access information relevant to their understanding and experience. A dynamic interactive layer provides the necessary interface for users to engage directly with content extracted from the CV and AI backend. Utilizing Multimodal Conversational Agents (MCAs)\, users can interact seamlessly with the video content through natural language input while receiving feedback through multiple sensory modalities. The project uses quantitative and qualitative methods to assess the framework’s usability. The analysis aims to evaluate the feasibility of implementing such systems to assist young adults in comprehending news media video content. It also seeks to enhance user engagement and immersion\, justifying its continued and future application. This research aims to revolutionize how young adults interact with and comprehend news media by offering an interactive layer that facilitates a deeper understanding and engagement with content topics\, unlike traditional methods. By leveraging MCAs\, the project enhances comprehension and introduces a fun and immersive element to digital news consumption\, transforming it into an engaging and interactive experience. This approach counters the current trends of low engagement among young adults\, presenting a new paradigm for how they interact with and understand news media. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/phd-halfway-presentation-by-peter-daniel-andrews/ LOCATION:Nygårdsgaten 5\, Nordre Allmenning 3 at Læringsarenaen CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-1-7.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231124T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231124T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20231030T122156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231030T122200Z UID:16717-1700820000-1700834400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:CuttingEdge AI: What do we do with one billion for artificial intelligence? DESCRIPTION:UiB AI\, in collaboration with NORA\, is excited to announce the Cutting Edge AI seminar taking place in Bergen on November 24th at the University Aula. Media Futures\, a part of this collaboration\, invites you to join us for an engaging discussion on the effective allocation of the government-promised AI billion. What is the actual purpose of having one billion for artificial intelligence? \nThe government presented an ambitious national initiative in September\, focusing on research in artificial intelligence and digital security. The Prime Minister pledged a minimum investment of one billion Norwegian kroner over the next five years. Since then\, there has been a heated debate among various academic communities regarding the direction of this initiative. Should the emphasis be on developing AI technology\, or is it more crucial to research its applications and consequences? Is the debate merely a positioning of different academic communities seeking funding\, or is there a genuine disagreement about the future of artificial intelligence research? \nWe hereby invite you to a debate where we delve into how we should utilize the AI billion. We are bringing together representatives from the government\, administration\, research communities\, and business sectors to gain diverse perspectives on the path forward in Norway’s major investment in artificial intelligence. \nUiB AI\nFour times a year\, UiB AI organizes seminars that shed light on various aspects of artificial intelligence. The seminar series serves as a meeting point for UiB employees and students interested in topics related to artificial intelligence. Participation is free\, and the event is open to all interested individuals. \nUiB AI is an initiative aimed at coordinating and showcasing all research\, education\, and innovation activities related to artificial intelligence at the University of Bergen. It facilitates collaboration and connections between faculties and external partners outside UiB. \nNORA\nCutting Edge AI” is NORA’s seminar series where they explore the latest developments in artificial intelligence through hybrid seminars. \nNORA\, the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium\, is a Norwegian collaboration between eight universities\, three colleges\, and four research institutes focused on AI\, machine learning\, and robotics. NORA operates a national research school\, an industrial network\, and provides support to startup companies. It has established itself as a national authority\, consulted on matters of national importance. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/cuttingedge-ai-what-do-we-do-with-one-billion-for-artificial-intelligence/ CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/cuttingedgeai_banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231118 DTSTAMP:20260430T063409 CREATED:20230819T092717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231115T201358Z UID:15921-1700092800-1700265599@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Annual Meeting 2023 DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures is a centre for research-based innovation with the goal to develop responsible media technology\, leveraging AI technology\, for the media sector. \nThe centre is a consortium of the most important media players in Norway. The University of Bergen is the host of the centre. User partners include NRK and TV 2\, the two main TV broadcasters in Norway\, Schibsted\, including Bergens Tidende (BT)\, and Amedia\, the two largest news media houses in Scandinavia/Norway\, as well as the world-renowned Norwegian media tech companies Vizrt\, Highsoft and the global tech and media player IBM. The centre collaborates with renowned national research institutions including the University of Oslo\, the University of Stavanger and NORCE\, and works together with high-profile international research institutions. \nThis years Media Futures Annual Meeting will be held at November 16-17 at Media City Bergen\, Norway\, the 2023 Annual Meeting constitutes a forum for the exchange of scientific results and industry insights within the field of responsible media technology. \nThis year’s focus topic are Generative AI and the EU AI Act. In particular\, we are interested in tackling questions related to as to what extent Generative AI and the EU AI Act will have an impact on the future of the media. \nFollowing last year’s success\, the 2023 Annual Meeting is expected once again to attract\, and bring together Norwegian and international researchers\, and industry practitioners with the intent of engaging in discussions on topics related to: \n\nAI Policy & Media Experiences\nAI Policy & Recommender Technology\nGenerative AI & Content Production\nGenerative AI & Media Interaction\nGenerative AI & Large Language Models\n\nJoin us for inspirational keynote talks\, prototype demonstrations\, presentations held by our researchers\, and industry partners\, and poster session. \nWe are pleased to announce the following high-profile keynote speakers and experts in the field of AI: Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Esther Paniagua. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Registration closed.For late registrations please emailoffice@mediafutures.no \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DIRECTIONS\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 1\nThe venue for Day 1 is the Atlantis Auditorium at the Conference Centre at Media City Bergen. \nMedia City Bergen is in downtown Bergen\, close to the main bus terminal.The closest public transport stop is “Nygård” where you can take the “bybanen” light rail\, or buses 12 or 13. \nYou will find the registration desk in the Atrium once you enter Media City Bergen. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n https://maps.app.goo.gl/GpZtDYshog3BhwWbA  \n \n \n \n \n \n Dinner \nThe Conference Dinner\, for affiliates only\, will be at 20:00 of Day 1\, November 16th.It will be held at Kulturhuset I Bergen\, Vaskerelven 8. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n https://maps.app.goo.gl/XFQP4UCiYMq6aptx5  \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 2\nDay 2 of the Annual Meeting\, for affiliates only\, will take place at Storm 2 at the Conference Centre at Scandic Ørnen. \nScandic Ørnen is located in Lars Hilles Gate 18\, right next to the main bus terminal.The closest public transport stop is “Bergen Busstasjon”\, the main bus terminal. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n https://maps.app.goo.gl/oHBxMur84ReqdFVx7  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PROGRAM\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 1: Media City Bergen \n\n\n\nAI Policy Workshop\n\n\n09:00\nGetting on the EU Policy Train.Charlotte Eide and Vivil Haraldsen\n\n\n10:30\nA Brief Primer on Global AI Policy.Nicholas Diakopoulos\n\n\n11:00\nDeveloping Mitigation Strategies to Counter Negative Impacts of Generative AI .Kimon Kieslich and Nicholas Diakopoulos\n\n\nOpening Session\n\n\n12:00\nRegistration\n\n\n13:00\nWelcome Adresse by Christoph Trattner\, UiB Vice-Rector Pinar Heggernes\, and\, MCB CEO Helge O. Svela\n\n\nKeynote Session\n\n\n13:15\nKeynote: Ricardo Baeza-YatesGenerative AI: The End of the Digital Truth?\n\n\n14:00\nBreak\n\n\n14:15\nKeynote: Esther PaniaguaThrive or die? The future of journalism in the AI age\n\n\n15:00\nBreak\n\n\n15:15\nPanel on Generative AI & AI PolicyAndreas Bengtsson\, Ricardo Baeza-Yates\,Esther Paniagua and Marija Slavkovik.Moderator: Nick Diakopoulos\n\n\nPoster & Demo Session\n\n\n16:00\nDemo & Poster Exhibition\n\n\n17:30\nDemo & Poster Awards\n\n\n\n\n\n\n20:00\nConference Dinner\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 2 (Internal): Scandic Ørnen \n\n\n\nWork Package Sessions\n\n\n09:30\nInfo and announcements\n\n\n09:35\nWP1: Understanding Media Experiences\n\n\n10:00\nWP2: User Modeling\, Personalisation & Engagement\n\n\n10:20\nWP3: Media Content Production & Analysis\n\n\n10:45\nBreak + Group Photo\n\n\n11:05\nWP4: Media Content Interaction & Accessibility\n\n\n11:25\nWP5: Norwegian Language Technologies\n\n\n12:00\nLunch\n\n\nUniversity – Industry Collaboration Session\n\n\n13:00\nUniversity – Industry (UI) Collaboration Paper PresentationFlorence Jane Walker\, UiB\n\n\n13:20\nUniversity – Industry (UI) Collaboration Panel DiscussionFlorence Jane Walker\, Enrico Motta\,Irene Costera Meijer\, Eivind ThrondsenModerator: Leif Ove Larsen\n\n\n14:05\nBreak\n\n\nWorld Café Session\n\n\n14:25\nIntroduction to World Cafe\n\n\n14:30\nAI/UI/Policy World Cafe Session 1\n\n\n14:50\nAI/UI/Policy World Cafe Session 2\n\n\n15:10\nAI/UI/Policy World Cafe Session 3\n\n\n15:25\nSummary\n\n\n16:00\nEnd\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AI POLICY WORKSHOP\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n From 9 to 12 on day 1 of the Annual Meeting\, MediaFutures will host a AI Policy Workshop. \nThe workshop is divided into 3 sessions: \n \n \n \n \n \n Getting on the EU Policy Train\n9am-10:30am \nCharlotte Eide and Vivil Haraldsen \nAre you interested in knowing more about EU policy making and opportunities to give input? \nAt this workshop you will get an overview of EU decision making processes relevant for the Research & Innovation sector\, see examples of how you can give your input to a specific policy area or to research and innovation priorities in EU programmes\, and explore upcoming opportunities for giving policy input in your field. \n \n \n \n \n \n A Brief Primer on Global AI Policy\n10:30am-11am \nNicholas Diakopoulos \nYou could spend all day every day reading about new AI policy proposals. Regulatory initiatives are well underway in the EU\, but things are also developing in China\, the US\, and via various global organizations. In this session we’ll cover some of the highlights so you have a better overview of what’s happening in the world of AI policy.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Developing Mitigation Strategies to Counter Negative Impacts of Generative AI \n11am-12pm. \nKimon Kieslich and Nicholas Diakopoulos \nWhat policies are actually going to work to reduce the negative impacts of generative AI in media and society? In this interactive session we’ll present scenarios and develop policy approaches that might actually work to reduce those impacts.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n KEYNOTE SESSION\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ricardo Baeza-Yates\, Director of Research\, Institute for Experiential AI\, Northeastern University \nRicaro Baeza-Yates is Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University. Before\, he was VP of Research at Yahoo Labs\, based in Barcelona\, Spain\, and later in Sunnyvale\, California\, from 2006 to 2016. He is co-author of the best-seller Modern Information Retreival textbook published by Addison-Wesley in 1999 and 2011 (2nd ed)\, that won the ASIST 2012 Book of the Year award. From 2002 to 2004 he was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society and between 2012 and 2016 was elected for the ACM Council. In 2009 he was named ACM Fellow and in 2011 IEEE Fellow\, among other awards and distinctions. He obtained a Ph.D. in CS from the University of Waterloo\, Canada\, in 1989\, and his areas of expertise are web search and data mining\, information retrieval\, bias on AI\, data science and algorithms in general. \nWe are honored to have Ricardo Baeza-Yates as a keynote speaker at our Annual Meeting. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ricardo Baeza-Yates \n \n \n \n \n \n Abstract\n Generative AI: The End of the Digital Truth? \nThe Media of the future may be completely different from today’s\, consisting of a mixture of truths and falsehoods. Determining what was generated by a chatbot and what was generated by a human being will be almost impossible. In fact\, it will be difficult to know what data we can even use to continue improving the technology. Over time\, it may learn from itself\, becoming less and less human. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Esther Paniagua\, Columnist and author specializing in science\, technology\, and cybersecurity.  \nEsther Paniagua is an award-winning tech & society journalist and author. Esther is one of Spain’s Linkedin Top Voices in Technology & Innovation. She has been honored as one of the “Top 100 Women Leaders of Spain” and as one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” by Forbes. Her outstanding contributions to science\, technology\, and innovation journalism have earned her numerous awards. \nHer latest book\, Error 404. Are you ready for a world without the internet? (Debate\, 2021)\, has garnered critical acclaim. Originally published in Spanish\, it has been translated into German (Hoffman und Campe) and into Italian (Einaudi). “Error 404” will also be available in Polish\, Greek\, Croatian\, and Romanian soon. \nEsther is highly sought after as a speaker on topics related to digital governance\, tech ethics\, artificial intelligence\, and cybersecurity. Additionally\, Esther teaches AI Journalism at the Rey Juan Carlos University’s master’s degree program in Investigative Journalism\, New Narratives\, Data\, Fact-checking\, and Transparency. \nWe are thrilled to have Esther Paniagua as a keynote speaker at our Annual Meeting. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Esther Paniagua \n \n \n \n \n \n Abstract\n Thrive or die? The future of journalism in the AI age \nGradually and then suddenly\, AI has erupted into the media landscape. As we navigate this transformative era\, pressing questions arise: Can AI fulfill its promises of enhancing work efficiency\, boosting audience engagement\, generating substantial economic gains\, and liberating journalists from repetitive tasks? Or does it pose a threat to the very fabric of journalism\, within the backdrop of precariousness and content plundering?This talk aims to unravel the complex web of AI’s -and more specifically LLM’s- impact on journalism\, scaling automatic content generation and the proliferation of deepfakes in an already ‘infoxicated’ ecosystem. By exploring both utopian and dystopian scenarios\, we seek to 1) provide insights into the potential futures that media and journalism face and 2) provide proposals\, from an ethical and responsible media perspective\, to ensure that Journalism thrives (and does not die) in the AI age. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Panel on Generative AI & AI Policy \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 1 of the Annual meeting features a panel on Generative AI & AI Policy. Participants include our two keynote speakers\, Ricardo Baeza-Yates as well as Esther Paniagua. They are joined by head of Schibsted Futures Lab\, Andreas Bengtsson\, as well as head of the Department of Information Science and Media Studies\, Marija Slavkovik. The panel is moderated by Nicholas Diakopoulos. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n POSTER & DEMO SESSION\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n We invited students from all areas of media studies\, information sciences\, informatics and other related fields to submit poster and demo abstracts for our Annual Meeting on 16-17 November. \nThe demo and poster session will take place on-site at the Media City Bergen Atrium. The presenters of the demos and posters will be given the opportunity to pitch their posters. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nName\nPoster\n\n\nAnastasiia Klimashevskaia\nEvaluating The Effects of Calibrated Popularity Bias Mitigation: A Field Study\n\n\nAyoub Majjodi\nHow the user’s food knowledge and nudges effect the user experience?\n\n\nBilal Mahmood\nEditorial Component in a News Recommender System\n\n\nHuiling You\nJSEEGraph: Joint Structured Event Extraction as Graph Parsing\n\n\nGloria Anne Babile Kasangu\nAffective News Framing\n\n\nMarianne Borchevink-Brækhus\nWhat does it mean when people spend less time on news?\n\n\nPeter Andrews\nAiCommentator: A Multimodal Conversational Agent for Embedded Visualization in Football Viewing\n\n\nSohail Khan\nDeepfake Detection: A Comparative Analysis\n\n\nJohn Magnus Dahl\nWhat if all your news were from…\n\n\nErik Knudsen\nNudge me towards a filter bubble!\n\n\nSamia Touileb\nMeasuring Normative and Descriptive Biases in Language Models Using Census Data\n\n\nDaniel Rosnes\nEvaluating Feature-Specific Similarity Metrics using Human Judgments for Norwegian News\n\n\nFlorence Walker\nI Dreamt of Something Lost\n\n\nVanessa Marie Haaland\nResponsible Personalization of Advertisement on News Websites\n\n\nAgnar haugbjørg Haugen\nExploring Political Engagement and Communication in Twitch Chat: A User-Centric Perspective\n\n\nAndreas Solberg Jensen\nPodcasts and platforms\n\n\nThomas Laag\nContext-awareness in media recommendations\n\n\nSnorre Alvsvåg\nPersonalized Playlists on TV 2 Play\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n In additon to the posters\, 11 demos will be displayed showcasing recent work. The following researchers will present demos: \n\nAnastasiia Klimanshevskaia\nAyoub Majjodi\nBilal Mahmood\nGloria Anne Babile Kasangu\nPeter Andrews\nSohail Khan\nJohn Magnus Dahl\nErik Knudsen\nDaniel Rosnes\nSamia Touileb\nHuiling You\n\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WP SESSIONS\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WP Session Programme (Start of Day 2): \n\n\n\nWP1: Understanding Media Experiences\n\n\n09:35\nWP1 OverviewBrita Ytre-Arne\, UiB\n\n\n09:40\nBeyond «more time is better»: Understanding experiences of quick news use practicesMarianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus\, UiB\n\n\n09:50\nWhat smartphones actually mean to teenagers – insights from an ethnographic studyJohn Magnus Dahl\, UiB\n\n\nWP2: User Modeling\, Personalisation & Engagement\n\n\n10:00\nResponsible Personalization and Recommendation TechnologyMehdi Elahi\, UiB\n\n\n10:05\nWhen sport get personalAstrid Tessem\, TV2\n\n\n10:10\nForget about Erna\, here comes BERTThomas Husken\, BT\n\n\n10:15\nCalibrated Popularity Bias Mitigation: Evaluating the Effects OnlineAnastasiia Klimashevskaia\, UiB\n\n\nWP3: Media Content Production & Analysis\n\n\n10:20\nFact-Checking Complex ClaimsVinay Setty\, UiS\n\n\n10:35\nThe Need for Multimodal Verification: A Newsroom PerspectiveMorten Langfeldt Dahlback\, Faktisk.no\n\n\n10:45\nBreak + Group Photo\n\n\nWP4: Media Content Interaction & Accessibility\n\n\n11:05\nMultimodal Conversational Agents for Embedded Visualization in Football ViewingMorten Fjeld\, UiB\n\n\n11:15\nDynamic Aspect Ratio for Live News at TV2Ingar Arntzen\, NORCE\n\n\nWP5: Norwegian Language Technologies\n\n\n11:25\nWP5 OverviewLilja Øvrelid\, UiO\n\n\n11:30\nJSEEGraph: Joint Structured Event Extraction as Graph ParsingHuilin You\, UiO\n\n\n11:40\nThe EDEN dataset\, and application of JSEEGraph to NorwegianLilja Øvrelid\, UiO\n\n\n11:50\nSummarization benchmark for NorwegianSamia Touileb\, UiB\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n UNIVERSITY – INDUSTRY COLLABORATION SESSION\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 2 of the Annual Meeting features a Session on University – Industry Collaboration. Participants are Florence Jane Walker\, Enrico Motta\, and Irene Costera Meijer\, who are currently working on a paper featuring aspects of collaboration between akademia and industry. The session starts with Florence Jane Walker presenting the findings of their study. Following the presentation the paper authors\, Florence\, as well as the co-authors Enrico Motta and Irene Costera Meijer is joined by Schibsted Academic Liason Eivind Throndsen in a panel. The panel is moderated by Leif Ove Larsen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORLD CAFÉ\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n At the end of day 2 we will be hosting a World Café on the conference topics: \n\nGenerative AI\nAI Policy\nUniveristy Industry Collaboration\n\nThere will be 3 sessions where participants will be seated at one of the topics for each of the sessions. \nTable hosts: \nGenerative AI: \n\nNicholas Diakopoulos\nDietmar Jannach\n\nU-I Collaboration: \n\nEnrico Motta\nIrene Costera Meijer\n\nAI Policy \n\nKimon Kieslich\nOskar Juhlin\n\n  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/annual-meeting-2023/ CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-4-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231101T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231101T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063410 CREATED:20231016T085959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T101337Z UID:16629-1698829200-1698854400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Fact Checking and Fact-based journalism in the age of AI DESCRIPTION:Kristiania University College and MediaFutures partner Faktisk.no have the honour to invite to a full-day conference about the challenges and opportunities that AI presents in the field of fact-checking. \nHow to distinguish between genuine and AI-generated content?\nThe challenges arising from new AI technology in fact-checking are significant. How is this field evolving\, and what methods are being employed to uncover AI-generated visual content? \nThe event is free of charge and is aimed at journalists and editors in Norwegian media\, representatives from Norwegian political parties\, intelligence services\, top executives\, employees of humanitarian and human rights organizations\, as well as researchers. \nThe event will be conducted in English. Please remember to register for the event. \nDeadline to register: 25.10.2023 \nThe conference will be also available via streaming. \nProgram\n09.00: Doors open \n09.30: Welcome & introduction by Morten L. Dahlback (Faktisk.no) and Nils Arne Bakke (Kristiania University College). \n10.00: Presentation by Mevan Babakar\, the News and Information Credibility Lead at Google. \n10.45: 15 min break \n11.00: Presentation by Andrew Dudfield\, interim CEO of Full Fact\, the UK’s largest independent fact-checking organization. \n11.45: 60 min lunch break \n12.45: Amnesty International’s AI-Generated Images: A Critical Assessment by Liv Hausken\, professor and the head of the research for Media Aesthetics at the University of Oslo. \n13.30: 15 min break \n13.45: Multimodal Generative AI and Synthetic Media: Current Threats and Responses from a Global Human Rights and Civic Journalism Perspective by Sam Gregory\, Executive Director of the independent fact-checking organization WITNESS. \n14.30: 15 min break \n14.45: Focus on the interaction between journalism and tech development by Pål Nedregotten\, Director of Technology at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). \n15.30: Closing remarks \nSmall changes in the program may occur\, potentially causing smaller moves of the time of the lunch break and the end. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/fact-checking-and-fact-based-journalism-in-the-age-of-ai/ LOCATION:Kristiania\, Kirkegata 24-26\, Oslo\, Kirkegata 24-26\, Oslo\, Norway CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/eventkalender-3-e1697451209128.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231018T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231018T153000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063410 CREATED:20231011T084849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231011T085300Z UID:16596-1697617800-1697643000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Sampol Conference 2023: (Limited) Technology: Progress or Downfall of Democracy? DESCRIPTION:The Sampol Conference 2023 is organized by master’s degree students at the Department of Comparative Politics (UiB) every other year. Its main objective is to provide a vibrant platform for constructive dialogue and exchange of ideas on significant societal and scientific issues. \nThe conference has been held biennially since 1985\, focusing on a wide range of topics\, including the fight against terrorism\, climate\, and social sciences. Over time\, the conference has established itself as a recognized platform for political science debate\, fostering an interdisciplinary environment that brings together students\, politicians\, businesses\, non-governmental organizations\, and public administration. \nThis year’s Sampol Conference is set to take place on October 18th at Universitetsaulaen at UiB! During this year’s conference\, we aim to explore the role of technology in society. The whole program can be found here. \nThe focus will be on how technology can be both the cause and the solution to many challenges affecting various aspects of society\, including states\, individuals\, research\, and businesses. Through debates\, lectures\, and panel discussions\, we intend to shed light on a range of topics: ethics and regulation of artificial intelligence\, research and user data from technology companies\, the use of technology by authoritarian regimes\, freedom of speech in the media\, radicalization and political mobilization\, as well as green sustainable development and innovation. The conference will also feature a traditional party debate on energy and renewable resources. \nBig Sciene panel\nMediaFutures researcher Samia Touileb will participate in the panel discussion on big data: Goldmine or Pitfall? scheduled from 11:15 to 12:00 on October 18th. This debate will raise questions about the role of independent research in modern times. \nTech giants like Google\, Twitter\, Facebook\, and Amazon\, possess vast amounts of user data\, and it’s entirely up to them whether to share this data with researchers for social science purposes or not. This post sheds light on the ethical dilemmas that arise when corporations control who sees what\, especially when the data they hold contains information about us\, the ordinary citizens. What does the future research landscape look like? What can we learn from such data sources? Join us for a presentation from our experts\, followed by an in-depth discussion on the opportunities\, limitations\, and ethics of “big data” in research. \nTickets for the day event can be purchased on the website of the conference. The tickets also include coffee and catering during the daytime part of the program. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/sampol-conference-2023-limited-technology-progress-or-downfall-of-democracy/ LOCATION:UiB Bergen\, Norway CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/374158288_683259783827595_6307579928189668477_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231002T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231003T163000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063410 CREATED:20230911T143245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T144905Z UID:16285-1696253400-1696350600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Seminar on innovative human-computer interaction DESCRIPTION:The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research group at the University of Bergen in cooperation with MediaFutures invites to a two-day seminar addressing innovative HCI. \nEight research and industry leader from Norway\, Sweden\, Germany\, Switzerland\, and Japan will be holding presentations on topics such as medical sensing and human-workspace interaction. \nThe seminar will be rounded off with a panel discussion. No registration required. \nWe welcome all students\, researchers\, innovators\, and industry representatives who are interested to participate in the seminar. \nSpeakers\nMasahiro Takei\, Chiba University\, Japan \nLaura Anna Garrison\, Informatics\, VisGroup\, Univeristy of Bergen \nTor Gjøsæter\, Ilder AS\, Bergen\, Norway \nMohammad Khalil\, SLATE\, UiB\, Norway \nKazuyuki Fujita\, Tohoku University\, Japan \nWhere and When? \n\n\nMONDAY 2nd October 2023Venue: Storsalen\, Nygårdsgaten 5\, UiB\, Bergen \n\n\nRoom URL: https://www.uib.no/l%C3%A6ringsarenaen/162450/om-storsalen \n\n\n\nThe sessions are: 13:30 – 16:30: From Medical Sensing to Interactive Sensemaking \nTUESDAY 3rd October 2023Venue: Auditorium 129 at Bjørn Christiansens house\, Christies gate 12\, UiB\, Bergen (also shown in room 128) \n\n\nRoom URL: https://rom.app.uib.no/romInfo/q.php/206/129 and https://rom.app.uib.no/romInfo/q.php/206/128 \nThe sessions are: 12:15 – 14:00: Smart Workspaces14:30 – 16:30: From Research to Innovation \n\nMore information can be found on uib.no URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-on-innovative-human-computer-interaction/ LOCATION:UiB Bergen\, Norway CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-1-e1694443737387.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR