MediaFutures Seminar: Hidden in Plain Sight: Microcelebrities navigating visibility and surveillance on Twitter with Özlem Demirkol Tønnesen, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bergen
Özlem Demirkol Tønnesen from the University of Bergenwill give a seminar on June 9th. TITLE: Hidden in Plain Sight: Microcelebrities navigating visibility and surveillance on Twitter WHEN: 9 June, 12:00 - 13:00 WHERE: MediaFutures ABSTRACT: On social media, microcelebrities and influencers play various roles and hold immense power as “focusers of attention” (Tufekci, 2013). This project […]
MediaFutures Seminar: Metrics for Measuring Normative Diversity in News Recommendations with Sanne Vrijenhoek from the University of Amsterdam
Sanne Vrijenhoek from the University of Amsterdam will give a seminar on June 16th TITLE: Metrics for Measuring Normative Diversity in News Recommendations WHEN: 16 June, 12:00 - 13:00 ABSTRACT: News recommenders have the potential to fulfill a crucial role in a democratic society, directing news readers towards the information that is most important to them. […]
MediaFutures Seminar: Reaching New Audiences with Generative AI with Lydia Chilton, an Assistant Professor from Columbia University
Lydia Chilton from Columbia University will give a seminar on June 29th TITLE: Reaching New Audiences with Generative AI WHEN: 29 June, 15:00 - 16:00 Presentation: https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Chilton_ReachingNewAudiences_June2023.pdf ABSTRACT: Writing a news article is a significant investment of time, energy, and intellect. For an article to have the impact it deserves, it needs to reach the […]
Liisa Ovaska: From permissive to resistive tactics: How audience members act, make sense and cope with audience-datafied journalism
MediaFutures MCB Store læringsrom, Læringslab 3rd floorWe are pleased to invite to a seminar about Liisa Ovaska's research paper on how audience members respond to audience-datafied journalism. Preliminary findings reveal a spectrum of strategies, ranging from resistance to acceptance, in how users engage with data-driven systems while consuming news. Liisa Ovaska is a doctoral researcher at Tampere University. In her dissertation Ovaska studies […]
Irene Costera Meijer: TikTok as a case study to understand the layeredness of Media Experience:
MediaFutures MCB Store læringsrom, Læringslab 3rd floorJoin our next Lunch Meeting with Irene Costera Meijer, Professor of Journalism Studies and head of the Journalism Studies section at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is also Work Package I Advisor and Key Researcher. Her research interests focus on audience studies and in particular on the impact of digitalization on changing practices of media consumption, media […]
Seminar on innovative human-computer interaction
UiB BergenThe Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research group at the University of Bergen in cooperation with MediaFutures invites to a two-day seminar addressing innovative HCI. Eight 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. The seminar will be rounded off with […]
More Room for Language: Investigating the Effect of Retrieval on Language Models
UiO, Room 4118, StyreromThe Language Technology Group (LTG) at University in Oslo is organising weekly RAG seminars. They do research on a number of topics related to Natural Language Processing (NLP), a subfield of Artificial Intelligence enabling computers to `make sense' of human language. This weeks speakers for the LTG research seminar are David Samuel, Lucas Charpentier and […]
Launching NB-Whisper
Nasjonalbiblioteket – Store Auditorium Henrik Ibsens gate 110, OsloOur partner, the National Library, invites you to a "launch seminar" for their newest speech-to-text model for Norwegian. They have invited the police, Schibsted, and TV2 to share how they use speech-to-text. They have been part of their beta group and will discuss the model's handling of Norwegian in various contexts. After lunch, the seminar […]
Trends in news use and avoidance
MediaFutures MCB Store læringsrom, Læringslab 3rd floorIn times of a rather negative-angled news landscape, NRK mapped Norwegians' approach to news, and news avoidance, with extra focus on the young readers. With data from NRK's Youth survey, Reuters Digital News Report, Norsk Mediebarometer, Opinions UNG2024 and more, we see some new features in how news is consumed - and avoided. On February […]
News personalization with “Curate”
MediaFutures MCB Store læringsrom, Læringslab 3rd floorMediaFutures invites to a seminar on news personalization with Schibsted in MediaFutures headquarter, MCB, 3rd floor. The seminar will also be streamed. The Curate project has been created to enable Schibsted media outlets to craft an optimal content selection for each individual user, delivering content tailored precisely to their preferences, in the appropriate format, location, […]
Mobilisation seminar on AI for trust and sustainability
Storsalen, Nygårdsgaten 5, første etasje.In connection with the upcoming announcement of the AI billion, the Research and Innovation Department at UiB (Forsknings- og innovasjonsavdelingen FIA) invites academic communities researching artificial intelligence to a mobilization seminar. The purpose is to highlight AI environments and center initiatives at UiB, and identify opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration in future work. The Research Council's […]
Overview of Serendipity in Recommender Systems
MediaFutures MCB Store læringsrom, Læringslab 3rd floorMediaFutures and UiBs research group DARS which stands for Behavioral Data Analytics & Recommender Systems, is inviting to a seminar with the postdoctoral researcher Denis Kotkov from the University of Helsinki. Kotkov is working on recommender systems, exploratory search, user experience and machine learning. In this seminar he will provide an overview of the Serendipity in Recommender Systems. Abstract: "Have […]