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:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230207T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230207T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062538 CREATED:20230113T110239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230206T122612Z UID:14116-1675760400-1675774800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Innovation workshop with Vestlandets Innovasjonsselskap (VIS) DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures and VIS would like to invite you to an innovation workshop taking place at MediaFutures on February the 7th. \nVestlandets Innovasjonsselskap (VIS) is a Technology Transfer Office (TTO) established in 2004 and owned by the University of Bergen\, Haukeland University Hospital\, the Institute of Marine Research\, Siva\, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences\, and NHH Norwegian Business School. \nThe goal of the workshop is to raise awareness of the value of intellectual property (IP) which is created through research\, as well as management of rights in collaboration with industry partners. \nThe workshop is targeted at PhDs\, PostDocs\, researchers\, Professors and industry partners who are curious about the process of bringing an idea/ a prototype to market\, and who want to learn more about IP-rights.  \nThemes and topics for the workshop: \n \n1. The commercialization process \n\nResearch-driven innovation (TTO)\nIndustry-driven innovation\nAbility and reputation\nResearch collaboration with industrial partner\n\n2. IP rights \n\nIP and research at UiB\nStrategies and management of IP\n\n3. Software and IPR \n\nPatenting – requirements and prerequisites\nOther protection strategies\n\n4. Case discussions / group work \n Please see the attached preliminary program for more details. \nThe workshop will be held at MediaFutures 7th February from 09:15-12:00\, followed by a lunch for all participants. \nIf you would like to participate\, please sign up by sending an e-mail to Ola Roth Johnsen\, ola.johnsen@uib.no\, or Knut Risnes\, knut.risnes@uib.no. \n  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/innovation-workshop-with-vestlandets-innovasjonsselskap-vis/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/322832385_4323621514428197_5420234586640585528_n-e1675075414570.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230203T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230203T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062538 CREATED:20230108T143347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T135114Z UID:13994-1675418400-1675425600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Seminar UiB AI: ChatGPT – trussel eller mulighet i forskning og utdanning? DESCRIPTION:Chatboten ChatGPT har vært mye omtalt i media den siste tiden og skapt debatt blant forskere og undervisere. Hvilke potensiale har avanserte chatboter som ChatGPT\, og hvilke implikasjoner kan det ha for vår måte å forske\, undervise og lære på? \nI årets første UiB AI seminar setter vi søkelyset på et aktuelt tema der verktøy basert på kunstig intelligens kan ha betydning for forskning og utdanning. Kunstig intelligens og maskinlæring har bragt store fremskritt innenfor vitenskapelige metoder og resultater\, og noe av dette har vært tema under seminarene til UiB AI i 2022. Det nye med ChatGPT og lignende verktøy er at de har blitt veldig gode til å kommunisere på menneskelige språk og at de er gratis tilgjengelig for alle.  \nDeltakelse i seminaret er gratis og det blir servert lunsj. Påmelding innen 31. januar. \nProgram:\nVelkommen\nPinar Heggernes\, professor\, prorektor og leder for UiB AI \nHva er ChatGPT og hvordan fungerer det og lignende verktøy?\nSamia Touileb\, forsker ved MediaFutures: Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation\, UiB \nChatGPT kan mange språk men kjenner ikke mange kulturer\nJill Rettberg\, professor I digital kultur og leder av ERC-prosjektet Machine Vision in Everyday Life\, UiB \nHva kan slike AI-verkyøy bety for læring\, tilbakemelding og vurdering?\nArild Raaheim\, professor i pedagogikk\, UiB \nHvilke implikasjoner kan AI-verktøy som ChatGPT og Elicit.org ha for forskning?\nBarbara Wasson\, professor og leder for Centre for the Science of Learning & Technology (SLATE)\, UiB \nPanelsamtale: ChatGPT – trussel eller mulighet i forskning og utdanning?\nEirik Vassenden\, professor i nordisk litteratur\, UiBDavid Grellscheid\, førsteamanuensis i informatikk\, UiBSamia TouilebJill RettbergArild RaaheimBarbara Wasson \nModerator: Pinar Heggernes \n  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-uib-ai-chatgpt-trussel-eller-mulighet-i-forskning-og-utdanning/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP5 Norwegian Language Technologies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/uib_ai_5_bilde.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230126T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230126T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062538 CREATED:20230116T112909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230123T124853Z UID:14147-1674734400-1674738000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Public expectations of transparency and accountability in citizens’ councils on data-driven media personalisation: Findings and methodological reflections with Ranjana Das\, Professor at the University of Surrey DESCRIPTION:Ranjana Das\, Professor at the University of Surrey and currently visiting Erasmus fellow at the University of Bergen\, will give a seminar on January 26th. \nTITLE: Public expectations of transparency and accountability in citizens’ councils on data-driven media personalisation: Findings and methodological reflections \nWHEN: 26 Januar\, 12:00 – 13:00 \nWHERE: MediaFutures \nABSTRACT: \n\nThis talk presents findings and reflections across a set of three journal papers which emerged from a rigorous\, three-wave series of qualitative research into public expectations of data-driven media technologies\, conducted across locations in England\, by a team bringing together sociology\, engineering and media practice. Located within the contexts of the AI4ME project\, through a range of carefully chosen scenarios and deliberations around the risks and benefits afforded by data-driven media personalisation technologies\, we paid close attention to citizens’ voices\, as our multi-disciplinary team sought to engage the public on what ‘good’ might look like in the context of media personalisation. We paid particular attention to risks and opportunities\, examining practical use-cases and scenarios\, and our three-wave councils culminated in citizens producing recommendations for practice and policy. In this talk\, I will focus on citizens’ ethical assessment\, critique and improvements proposed on media personalisation methods in relation to benefits\, fairness\, safety\, transparency and accountability\, particularly within the broader contexts of their expectations around algorithms and algorithmic systems. I will conclude with some reflections on our citizens council methodology\, particularly the use of “vignettes” as scenarios as a method of data collection in user-centric algorithm studies\, in terms of their potential in inviting users’ contextual experiences of algorithms but also enabling more normative reflections on what “good” looks like in contemporary datafied societies. \nNote: The talk draws upon three journal papers from the team under review currently\, and results presented should not be circulated further. \nBIO: \nRanjana Das is Professor in Media and Communication\, in the Department of Sociology\, at the University of Surrey. Her research interests span families\, parenting and parenthood\, mental health\, digital technologies and media audiences and users. Her upcoming book Anticipating algorithms: Algorithmic literacies of datafied parenthood will be published by Rowman & Littlefield. Link to project website: https://ai4me.surrey.ac.uk/ \nMore information on the speaker: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/ranjana-das \n  \nThe seminar is arranged by WP1 Understanding media experiences in SFI MediaFutures. At the seminar we will serve a light lunch on a first come first served-basis. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-public-expectations-of-transparency-and-accountability-in-citizens-councils-on-data-driven-media-personalisation-findings-and-methodological-reflections-with-ranjana-da/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/thumbnail_VPL_8679.web_-e1673868982390.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230118T141500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230118T151500 DTSTAMP:20260420T062538 CREATED:20221221T101326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230117T124156Z UID:13942-1674051300-1674054900@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Designing for Collaborative Video Editing with Pavel Okopnyi\, PhD Candidate at the University of Bergen DESCRIPTION:Pavel Okopnyi\, a PhD Candidate at the University of Bergen\, will give a seminar on January 18th.  \nTITLE: Designing for Collaborative Video Editing \nWHEN: 18 Januar\, 14:15 – 15:15 \nWHERE: MediaFutures & Zoom: \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/69273144707?pwd=cFdCKzlwZ0h6YXd6MVdTTmFZeWNvdz09 \nMeeting ID: 692 7314 4707\nPassword: daKA5X52\n \nABSTRACT: \n\nThe seminar will explore the design space of collaborative video editing through a series of design workshops with video editors. Collaborative video editing can be supported by adding awareness features or other well-known collaborative features found in existing software and introducing new features designed specifically for video editing software. We identify different design concepts that illustrate how such collaborative features can be included in non-linear video editing software and discusses the challenges of introducing such features. Some design concepts are explicitly inspired by existing collaborative tools. However\, we suggest that introducing such features might not be straightforward. In other cases\, alternative abstract representations of time-based media might be necessary to support collaborative video editing. \nBIO: \nPavel Okopnyi is a PhD Candidate at the University of Bergen. His PhD thesis is focused on collaborative aspects of video production workflows. He has master’s degrees in Sociology and Human-Computer Interaction. Pavel’s interests include media production tools\, education\, software engineering\, and video games. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-designing-for-collaborative-video-editing-with-pavel-okopnyi-phd-candidate-at-the-university-of-bergen/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/photo1-e1671617906952.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230110T151500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230110T161500 DTSTAMP:20260420T062538 CREATED:20221210T180537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T135447Z UID:13829-1673363700-1673367300@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Information Seeking Is Much More Than Searching with Alan Smeaton\, Professor of Computing at the Dublin City University DESCRIPTION:Alan Smeaton\, a Professor of Computing at the Dublin City University\, will give a seminar on January 10th.  \nTITLE: Information seeking is much more than searching \nWHEN: 10 Januar\, 15:15-16:15 \nWHERE: MediaFutures & Zoom: \nLink:  https://uib.zoom.us/j/69616776839?pwd=QWlRSWk1M2RQb0JYUkk1YzkzYmxFQT09 \nMeeting ID: 696 1677 6839 \nPassword: Dqf1HzTr \nABSTRACT: \n\nInformation seeking is an essential\, daily activity that billions of us pursue as part of our work and leisure activities. Information seeking is a journey\, a conversation between a searcher and an information repository which can have many final destinations\, or none.  Searching is one component of information seeking and search or more broadly information retrieval\, in its early years has had a focus on known item search or searching around a broad topic. This has been supported and nurtured by our benchmarking activities like TREC\, TRECVid\, CLEF\, FIRE and others and the systems we have developed and that we use in our essential daily information seeking activities reflect this.  In this presentation I reflect on the broader information seeing landscape and on how a twist of good (or bad) timing\, has left us with the search tools we use but which do not necessarily deliver the best support for our information seeking.   This broader perspective will then allow us to contextualise the roles that various forms of media search can play in our information seeking journeys. Towards the end of the talk I will cover generative media where instead of searching for media\, we create it. \nBIO: \nAlan Smeaton is Professor of Computing at Dublin City University where he has previously been Head of School and Dean of Faculty. He is an IEEE Fellow\, Principal Fellow of Advance HE and an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is the 2022 winner of the ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award for contributions to multimedia computing. Alan’s interests are in human memory and how we forget and remember some things and not others and this involves the use of machine learning and data analytics\, and the applications of text\, image\, and video analysis in areas like learning analytics\, personal sensing\, and lifelogging. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-information-seeking-is-much-more-than-searching-with-alan-smeaton-professor-of-computing-at-the-dublin-city-university/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/thumbnail_Screenshot-2022-12-05-at-09.54.53-e1670695874254.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20221004T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20221004T140000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062538 CREATED:20221001T143716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T073231Z UID:13206-1664888400-1664892000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Media Accessibility: Current Solutions and Future Challenges with Pilar Orero\, Professor from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona DESCRIPTION:Pilar Orero\, Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)\, will give a seminar on 4 October\, at 13:00. \nTITLE: MedIa Accessibility: Current Solutions and Future Challenges \nWHEN: Tuesday 4 October\, 13:00-14:00. There will be a lunch served at 12:30. \nWHERE: MediaFutures & Online \n Zoom Meetinghttps://uib.zoom.us/j/64942261686?pwd=eFBPb0lmM3FHN2xHK1pKNmFiMWwzQT09 \nMeeting ID: 649 4226 1686Password: MB926L47 \nABSTRACT: \n The presentation will start describing the current situation of media accessibility\, which is at an unprecedented moment for accessibility. The EU legal framework has forced national transpositions with concrete requirements. The European Accessibility Centre will open next year\, and funding for research by EC is at all times high. Accessibility has moved from being an object of study\, as a silo\, to a horizontal prerequisite in any call where humans are involved. This presentation will inform of existing funded solutions and identify possible challenges that may need funding. \nBIO: \nProfessor Pilar Orero\, PhD (UMIST\, UK) works at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) in the TransMedia Catalonia Lab. She has written and edited many books\, near 100 academic papers and almost the same number of book chapters –all on Media Accessibility. Leader and participant on numerous EU funded research projects focusing on media accessibility. She works in standardisation and participates in the UN ITU IRG-AVA – Intersector Rapporteur Group Audiovisual Media Accessibility\, ISO and ANEC. She has been working on Immersive Accessibility for the past 4 years first in a project called ImAc\, which results are now further developed in TRACTION\, MEDIAVERSE\, MILE\, and has just started to work on green accessibility in GREENSCENT. She leads the EU network LEADME on Media Accessibility. \n For more info please go to https://gent.uab.cat/pilarorero URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-media-accessibility-current-solutions-and-future-challenges-with-pilar-orero-professor-from-the-universitat-autonoma-de-barcelona/ LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008 CATEGORIES:Seminar,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Picture-1-e1664648179569.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220920T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220920T110000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062538 CREATED:20220912T073922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220914T122823Z UID:13052-1663668000-1663671600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Building Knowledge Graphs with Media Content and Application for Tackling Misinformation with Raphael Troncy\, Associate Professor at EURECOM DESCRIPTION:Raphael Troncy\, Associate Professor at EURECOM\, will give a seminar on 20 September\, at 10:00. \nTITLE: Building Knowledge Graphs with Media Content and Application for Tackling Misinformation \nWHEN: Tuesday 20 September\, 10:00-11:00WHERE: MCB Store læringsrom\, Læringslab 3rd floor.    / ZOOM: \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/67861782423?pwd=YzhRVWkrOVp5Q1gwTmhZU3c2djBlZz09 \nMeeting ID: 678 6178 2423 \nPassword: 10ZkuVs4 \n \nABSTRACT: \nThe sheer volume of multimedia content created every day across the many disparate distribution channels keeps challenging any traditional content management system. Routine tasks such as archiving\, editing\, content organization and retrieval by multimedia creators become prohibitively costly. On the user side\, the amount of multimedia content pumped daily can be simply overwhelming and the need for shorter and more personalized content has never been more pronounced. Recommending\, enriching and summarizing content can help to capitalize on users’ engagement and generate their interactions.In this talk\, I will first present several Knowledge Graphs developed with medias being radio and TV programs broadcaster in Europe\, news items published by a news agency or even social media posts shared on Twitter or Facebook. Next\, I will present a number of tools that contribute to automatic multimedia understanding by computers\, ranging from extracting topics using common sense knowledge or language models to recognizing recurring people in images. I will show how difficult it is for computers to decompose content into meaningful segments. I will show how to extract highlights from media content\, both for narrative-focused summarization and for maximising memorability and I will conclude with our current efforts aiming at tackling misinformation.   \nBIO: \nRaphael Troncy is an Associate Professor at the Data Science Department of EURECOM. He received his PhD from Grenoble University (France) in 2004 and held research positions at INA (France)\, CNR (Italy) and CWI (The Netherlands). He published more than 250 scientific papers in various journals\, top tier conferences and associated workshops and held key organisational roles in multiple world-leading conferences. He was the General Chair of The Web Conference in 2022. He is an expert in knowledge engineering\, information extraction and recommender systems. He is the principla investigator of many national and european projects where semantic technologies and information extraction are used together to build knowledge graphs\, exploratory search engines and recommender systems. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-building-knowledge-graphs-with-medias-search-explore-recommend-and-tackle-misinformation-with-raphael-troncy-associate-professor-at-eurocom/ LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008 CATEGORIES:Seminar,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot-2022-09-12-at-09.37.52-e1662969028229.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220909T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220909T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062538 CREATED:20220831T121629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220908T072651Z UID:12943-1662724800-1662728400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: How Newspapers Use Audience Analytics and Metrics with Thomas Husken\, Data Analyst at Bergens Tidende DESCRIPTION:Thomas Husken\, Data Analyst at Bergens Tidende\, will give a seminar on 9 September\, at 12:00. \nTITLE: How newspapers use audience analytics and metrics \nWHEN: Friday 9 September\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: MediaFutures \n  \nIn this workshop\, Thomas Husken\, data scientist in Bergens Tidende (BT)\, will talk about the usage of news audience data\, various metrics\, and analytics inside a news organization. Thomas is part of BT data analytics department\, working on frontpage optimization\, creation and maintenance of various analytical dashboards\, and many other analytical tasks. Newsrooms around the world have become centered around dashboards\, overloaded with metrics\, and news work is growingly data-driven. Ongoing research is revealing how analytics and metrics influences journalism culture\, work routines\, news values\, news selection\, among other. However\, beyond gaining knowledge about effects on work process which are reflected in content that consumers of media get\, we need to look deeper into technical insides of audience analytics and metrics\, or infrastructures for utilization of data about audience news use. In that respect\, Thomas Husken will provide unique insights into the audience analytics and metrics in BT as one of the oldest and the largest newspapers (measured by circulation) in Norway. \nThe workshop is primarily aimed at PhD and Postodoctoral researchers\, but also at others interested in various technological aspects of media work.     \n\nProgram: \nShort introduction – Ana Milojevic (Postdoc Fellow\, MediaFutures) \nHow newspapers use analytics and metrics – Thomas Husken (Data Scientist\, BT) \nQuestions and answers \n\nRegister your interest in workshop by sending e-mail to Ana Milojevic. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-with-thomas-husken-bt-data-analyst/ LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008 CATEGORIES:Seminar,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/thumbnail_1601297665340-e1662105080690.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220616T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220616T150000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062538 CREATED:20220603T195225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T134015Z UID:12215-1655388000-1655391600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Mind the Gaps and Normal Accidents with Dirk Hovy. Associate Professor\, Bocconi University in Milan\, Italy. DESCRIPTION:Dirk Hovy\, Associate Professor of computer science at Bocconi University in Milan\, Italy\, will give a seminar on 16 June\, at 14:00. \nTITLE: Mind the Gaps and Normal AccidentsWHEN: Thursday 16 June\, 14:00-15:00WHERE: Zoom – https://uio.zoom.us/j/61874196241?pwd=RHJFZ1FYRzArdHkvbW9salZkd20yUT09 \n  \nMeeting ID: 618 7419 6241\n\nPassword: 577113\n \nABSTRACT: \nNLP is now stable enough to be used in production systems\, and will soon become even more pervasive. However\, even today’s systems are already highly complex and unpredictable. As they become more ubiquitous\, different algorithms will interact with each other directly leading to tightly coupled systems whose capacity to cause harm we will be unable to predict. In his book Normal Accidents\, the sociologist Charles Perrow proposed a framework to analyze technologies and their risks according to their complexity and the interdependence of their components. He showed that accidents were nigh on unavoidable due to those two features. We apply Perrow’s framework to NLP to assess its potential risks. We argue that under the current paradigm\, “normal accidents” are built into the system\, and that it is only a matter of time before they emerge. Some issues in current NLP practice that aid this development are: \n– the early adoption of methods without sufficient understanding or analysis; \n– the preference for computational methods regardless of risks associated with their limitations; \n– the dangers of unexplainable methods. \nIf these issues are not addressed\, we risk a loss of reproducibility\, reputability\, and subsequently public trust in our field. However\, these factors can help us plan better for making our systems safer and more reliable. \nBIO: \nDirk Hovy is associate professor of computer science at Bocconi University in Milan\, Italy. Before that\, he was faculty and a postdoc in Copenhagen\, got a PhD from USC\, and a linguistics masters in Germany. He is interested in the interaction between language\, society\, and machine learning\, or what language can tell us about society\, and what computers can tell us about language. He has authored over 70 articles on these topics\, including 3 best paper awards. He has organized one conference and several workshops (on abusive language\, ethics in NLP\, and computational social science). Dirk recently received an ERC Starting Grant for a project on demographic factors and bias in NLP. Outside of work\, Dirk enjoys cooking\, running\, and leather-crafting. For updated information\, see https://www.dirkhovy.com URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-mind-the-gaps-and-normal-accidents-with-dirk-hovy-associate-professor-bocconi-university-in-milan-italy/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP5 Norwegian Language Technologies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/portrait_small20180221200643.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220615T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220615T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062538 CREATED:20220610T112016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T134101Z UID:12233-1655294400-1655298000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Augment the Vision: To Help Users Deal with Different Domain Tasks. PhD Candidate\, Chalmers University of Technology\, Sweden. DESCRIPTION:Yuchong Zhang\, PhD candidate at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden\, will give a seminar on 15 June\, at 12:00. \nTITLE: Augment the Vision: To Help Users Deal with Different Domain TasksWHEN: Wednesday 15 June\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: MediaFutures \n  \n\n \nABSTRACT: \nOne of the cutting-edge techniques—augmented reality (AR) (a variation of virtual reality (VR))\, in which virtual objects are superimposed in the real world–has been demonstrated and applied in numerous fields due to its capability of providing interactive interfaces of visualized digital content. Moreover\, AR can provide functional tools that support users undertaking domain-related tasks\, especially facilitating them in data visualization and interaction because of its ability to jointly augment the physical space and the user’s perception. How to fully use the advantages of AR technique\, especially the items which augment human vision to help users with different domain tasks’ perform is the central part of my PhD research. \nBIO: \nYuchong Zhang is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Chalmers University of Technology\, Sweden. His research interests include augmented reality\, interactive visualization and human-centred design. He received his MSc. degree from Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore in 2017. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-augment-the-vision-to-help-users-deal-with-different-domain-tasks-phd-candidate-chalmers-university-of-technology-sweden/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/IMG_3041-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220615T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220615T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062538 CREATED:20220610T115242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T134203Z UID:12241-1655287200-1655298000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures WP1 DIGSSCORE-Workshop DESCRIPTION:  \nWP1 DIGSSCORE-Workshop \nOpen for all MediaFutures Partners. The first part will be in English\, and the second part will be in Norwegian/Scandinavian. \nWHERE: Zoom – https://uib.zoom.us/j/65597060274?pwd=Q0huZm9EY2s4VGJCSWdMdVRwTGRkZz09  \n \nPart 1 (10:00 – 11:00) Introduction to DIGSSCORE \n10:00-10:05: Welcome \n10:05-10:45: Introduction to DIGSSCORE by Erik Knudsen: What is it and what can MediaFutures partners use it for? (20 minutes presentation and 20 minutes for questions) \n10:45-11:00 Coffee break \nPart 2 (11:00-13:00) WP1 workshop in Scandinavian (with WP1 partners) \n11:00-11:15: Introduction to Schibsted’s research interests on hard-to-reach audiences and constructive journalism (10 minutes presentation and 5 minutes for questions) \n11:15-11:30: Introduction to NRK’s research interests on constructive journalism (10 minutes presentation and 5 minutes for questions). \n11:30-11:45: Discussing and finding overlapping interests for research \n11:45-12:00 Coffee break \n12:00-12:15: Opportunities for researching constructive journalism and hard-to-reach audiences using DIGSSCORE. \n12:15-12:45: Designing the study \n12:45-13:00: Summing up and the road ahead URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-wp1-digsscore-workshop/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/digsscore-logo-m-tekst-under-hires_0.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220520T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220520T160000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062538 CREATED:20220506T120804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T134409Z UID:12064-1653058800-1653062400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Wolftech & MediaFutures Joint Seminar: Human Interaction and Collaboration with Machine Learning Models. Hendrik Strobelt\, IBM Research / MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab DESCRIPTION:Hendrik Strobelt\, the Explainability Lead at the MIT-IBM Watson AI lab\, will give a seminar on 20 May\, at 15:00. \nTITLE: Human Interaction and Collaboration with Machine Learning models \nWHEN: Friday 20 May\, 15:00-16:00WHERE: Zoom: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErdeiurz0tGtGEcOjhfEQBEwTKqcblgjju  \nMeeting ID: \n\nPassword: \n \nABSTRACT: \nWith the increasing adoption of machine learning models across domains\, we have to think about the human role when interacting with these models. In the last years\, my collaborators and I have created a series of tools that utilize visualization and visual user interaction to help investigate behavior of machine learning models (for NLP and CV) and that might help creating algorithms to detect fake text. I will present a selection of these scientific tools that makes humans play and then understand. \nBIO: \nHendrik Strobelt is the Explainability Lead at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab\, Research Scientist at IBM Research\, and currently professor at University of Konstanz. His recent research is on visualization for and human collaboration with AI models to foster explainability and intuition. His work involves NLP models and generative models while he is advocating to utilize a mix of data modalities to solve real-world problems. His research is applied to tasks in machine learning\, in NLP\, in the biomedical domain\, and in chemistry. Hendrik joined IBM in 2017 after postdoctoral positions at Harvard SEAS and NYU Tandon. He received a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Konstanz in computer science (Visualization) and holds an MSc (Diplom) in computer science from TU Dresden. His work has been published at venues like IEEE VIS\, ICLR\, ACM Siggraph\, ACL\, NeurIPS\, ICCV\, PNAS\, Nature BME\, or Science Advances. He received multiple best paper/honorable mention awards at EuroVis\, BioVis\, VAST\, ACL Demo\, or NeurIPS demo. He received the Lohrmann medal from TU Dresden as the highest student honor. Hendrik has served in program committees and organization committees for IEEE VIS\, BioVis\, EuroVis. He served on organization committees for IEEE VIS\, VISxAI\, ICLR\, ICML\, NeurIPS. Hendrik is visiting researcher at MIT CSAIL. (more: https://hendrik.strobelt.com) URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/wolftech-mediafutures-joint-seminar-human-interaction-and-collaboration-with-machine-learning-models-hendrik-strobelt-ibm-research-mit-ibm-watson-ai-lab/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Wrorkshop.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220513T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220513T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062538 CREATED:20220425T114853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T134520Z UID:11893-1652443200-1652446800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Media entertainment experiences among youth on global platforms. Marika Lüders\, Professor at the University of Oslo DESCRIPTION:Marika Lüders\, Professor at the University of Oslo\, will give a seminar on 13 May\, at 12:00. \nTITLE: Media entertainment experiences among youth on global platformsWHEN: Friday 13 May\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: Zoom – \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/68002953641?pwd=WGU1ZGFKUTNMZlZ0a29GaVlrWFJuUT09 \nMeeting ID: 680 0295 3641\n\nPassword: PEw18sgA\n \nABSTRACT: \nThe media and platforms taken for granted by those born since the turn of the millennium are often interpreted as causing unprecedented competition for national and legacy players in the field of media entertainment. Accordingly\, notions such as “lost generation” signal how legacy media perceive re-engagement with youth audiences as core to their future existence. In this talk I will first address how the notion of youth as a lost generation serves a strategic function in the media entertainment sector by legitimating actions. I will next report from how we study teens’ media entertainment experiences in the research project “Global Natives? Serving young audiences on global platforms”. By enquiring the media entertainment experiences of youth as constituted by content produced by legacy media and what is often termed “social media entertainment”\, we hope to advance knowledge on youth as a media generation. \nBIO: \nMarika Lüders is a Professor at the Department of Media and Communication\, University of Oslo. She has almost 20 years of experience in researching user/audience experiences\, social media\, global platforms\, and the intersections of the material and experiential levels of digital technologies. Lüders is currently the project leader of the research project “Global Natives? Serving young audiences on global platforms” (2021-2025).  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-media-entertainment-experiences-among-youth-on-global-platforms-marika-luders-professor-at-the-university-of-oslo/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/ml1200-1600-300ppi_photoby_ellen_evju_jahr.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220504T141500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220504T150000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062538 CREATED:20220425T120800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220705T065715Z UID:11901-1651673700-1651676400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Human-Computer Interaction lecture series: UX Research Design in Practice: Some Examples from Safety Critical Industrial Environments. Dr Duy Le\, senior research scientist at VNUHCM University of Science\, Vietnam DESCRIPTION:Dr. Duy Le\, a senior research scientist and head of the Human-Computer Interaction division of SELab\, VNUHCM University of Science\, Vietnam\, will give a seminar on May 4\, at 14:15. \nTITLE: UX Research Design in Practice: Some Examples from Safety Critical Industrial Environments \nWHEN: Wednesday 4 May\, 14:15-15:00WHERE: MediaFutures and Zoom: \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/69626023560?pwd=cVdKWjR1VithNUo4a1g0NTQ1OGpFdz09\n\nMeeting ID: 696 2602 3560\nPassword: icrxk07s\n \nABSTRACT: \nA typical user experience (UX) research and design process is a sequence of user empathization\, problem definition\, solution ideation\, designing\, and evaluation. However\, how this sequence is executed in practice can have several variants\, heavily depending on the resources and the constraints of the environment where the UX work is performed. In this talk\, we will explore some exemplary UX research and design projects targeting manufacturing plants\, which are examples of safety critical industrial environments. The talk will highlight some particular contextual constraints in this kind of environment and then present how UX practitioners flexibly applied the typical design process to comply with the constraints while still adequately ensuring the quality of a user-centered design work. Besides that\, the talk will also demonstrate how different types of creative media such as storyboard\, paper-sketched user interfaces\, animated mockups\, and games can be flexibly used in industrial UX research and design projects. \nBIO: \nDr. Duy Le is currently a senior research scientist and head of the human-computer interaction division of SELab\, VNUHCM University of Science\, Vietnam. He is an HCI researcher with rich working experiences both in academia and industry. He obtained a PhD degree in human-computer interaction from Chalmers University of Technology\, Sweden. Prior to joining VNUHCM University of Science\, he had two years working as a research scientist in the UX research group of ABB Research Sweden where he performed several UX research projects spanning across human-robot interaction\, augmented reality (AR)\, virtual reality (VR)\, and human-automation interaction. In his current position\, Duy is leading research on intelligent interactive systems\, which aim to combine user-centered design\, artificial intelligence and cutting edge interactive technologies such as interactive surfaces\, AR\, VR\, and embodied interfaces to improve user efficacy and provide novel experiences. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-ux-research-design-in-practicesome-examples-from-safety-critical-industrial-environments-dr-duy-le-senior-research-scientist-and-head-of-the-human-computer-interaction-divisio/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/DuyLe_1-e1657004223713.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220504T111500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220504T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062539 CREATED:20220429T134009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T134834Z UID:11919-1651662900-1651665600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Human-Computer Interaction lecture series: Visual Attention in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Interactions. Katarzyna Wisiecka\, PhD Candidate in Psychology and Informatics at SWPS University & Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. DESCRIPTION:Katrzyna Wisiecka\, PhD candidate in psychology and informatics at SWPS University & Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology\, will give a seminar on May 4th\, at 11:15. \nTITLE: Visual Attention in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Interactions \nWHEN: Wednesday 4 May\, 11:15-12:00WHERE: MediaFutures and Zoom:  \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/61410167655?pwd=WFJXbGdMVXVuYk5sTDJ2bllPZ3Yydz09\n\n\nMeeting ID: 614 1016 7655\nPassword: 9VA5L6D1\n  \nABSTRACT: \nComputer-mediated interaction has become an integral part of our daily routines. Despite decreased non-verbal communication and face-to-face contact with partners of collaboration\, people learned how to remotely work together. The consequences of decreased non-verbal signals such as gaze communication on collaboration quality in remote settings are however not fully investigated. The present PhD project intends to examine in four eye tracking experiments the role of visual attention during face-to-face and computer-mediated interaction. The project has three interrelated aims: (1) examining the relationship between interaction quality and gaze patterns in remote and face-to-face collaboration; (2) facilitating workspace awareness among collaborators by visualization of the partner’s gaze direction; (3) investigate whether gaze communication enhances physiological synchronization measured by heart rate variability (HRV) in computer-mediated collaboration. Current results suggest that remote collaboration is challenging for participants and its quality benefits from gaze visualizations during task solving. Enhancing gaze communication during remote collaboration has the potential to increase physiological synchronization between collaborators. Broadening the knowledge about physiological correlates of computer-mediated collaboration is a step to develop gaze-based solutions tailored to remote interactions. \nBIO: \nKatarzyna Wisiecka\, M.A. in clinical psychology\, current PhD candidate in psychology and informatics at SWPS University & Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. She is a member of the Eye Tracking Research Center at SWPS University. Her main research interests include social synchronization and gaze communication in computer environments. She is a scholarship holder in grants funded by the National Science Center and National Centre for Research and Development in Poland. She also takes part in numerous international projects including media accessibility and human-computer interaction such as LEAD-ME funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the EU. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/human-computer-interaction-lecture-series-visual-attention-in-face-to-face-and-computer-mediated-interactions-phd-candidate-ph-d-candidate-in-psychology-and-informatics-at-swps-university-polish-j/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/kw.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220421T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220421T140000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062539 CREATED:20220331T190334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220424T153715Z UID:11745-1650546000-1650549600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Fairness—Are algorithms a burden or a solution? Dr. Christine Bauer\, Assistant Professor at Utrecht University DESCRIPTION:Dr. Christine Bauer\, Assistant Professor at Utrecht University\, will give a seminar on 21 April\, at 13:00. \nTITLE: Fairness—Are algorithms a burden or a solution?WHEN: Thursday 21 April\, 13:00-14:00WHERE: Zoom – \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/66369080035?pwd=MDFzdmV6TUdCVVZlZnhsNWc1eHlMUT09  \nMeeting ID: 663 6908 0035\n\nPassword: F9fN181n\n \nABSTRACT: \nRecommender systems play an important role in everyday life. These systems assist users in choosing products to buy\, movies to watch\, or news articles to read. With their wide usage\, there is an increasing pressure that such systems are fair. Besides serving diverse groups of users\, recommenders need to represent and serve item providers in a fair manner\, too. But what is fair? In this talk\, I will present research on fairness in music recommender systems taking the artists’ perspective. What do artists consider fair? Are algorithms a burden or a solution? In particular\, I will zoom in on recent research on gender bias in music recommenders and how we can address this issue. \nBIO: \nDr. Christine Bauer is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University\, The Netherlands. She is an experienced teacher in a wide spectrum of topics in computing and information systems—ranging from algorithms to adaptive interactive systems to research methods. Her research activities center on interactive intelligent systems. Thereby\, she takes a human-centered computing approach\, where technology follows humans’ and society’s needs. Central themes in her research are context and context-adaptivity.  In the recent years\, she worked on context-aware recommender systems. Core interest in her current research activities are fairness and multi-method evaluations. Further information can be found at https://christinebauer.eu. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-fairness-are-algorithms-a-burden-or-a-solution-dr-christine-bauer-assistant-professor-at-utrecht-university/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/thumbnail_image001.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220408T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220408T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062539 CREATED:20220321T115124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220321T193423Z UID:11699-1649412000-1649419200@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:UiB AI #2 But\, why? - make AI answer! DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the second seminar in the UiB AI seminar series.  The event is open to all employees and students at UiB. Prior registration is required.  \nTITLE: UiB AI #2 But\, why?  – make AI answer! \nWHEN: Friday 8 April\, 10:00-12:00WHERE: Universitetsaulaen\, Muséplassen 3\, Bergen \nSeminar registration \nBackground: \nArtificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly involved in decision making. Decision-making can be a monotonous task that involves a lot of routine operations and the processing of vast amounts of information. Involving artificial intelligence is a possibility to spare human time and allow for it to be used in a more meaningful way\, both for society and for the individuals involved. \nDecisions by AI can mean many different things. On one hand\, machine learning is used to identify who is most likely to pass the exam\, how much your house will be appraised for\, or how likely malignant that spot is on your mammography image.  On the other hand\, automated decision-makers are built to follow a specific set of rules. When a decision affects our life\, we would like to know how and why that decision was made. Knowing why helps scientists and engineers improve the automated decision-making tools. It also helps individuals to retain their autonomy. If you do not know why\, you cannot possibly do anything to change a decision. Not knowing why makes the personal experience the same as being subjected to a roll of a dice deciding the value of your property and the quality of your life. \nTo explain means to provide information about a process that is meaningful\, useful and understandable to the person for whom it is intended. Not all AI methods `shed’ enough information for a meaningful explanation to be feasible. It is not that the why exists somewhere and the AI method would not admit to it. Machine learning algorithms produce models of correlations in the data. The data is a numerical representation of the real world. There might be a reason in the real world why two phenomena are related. A machine learning model can correctly identify that relation without having access to\, or making use of\, the reasons for it. AI methods that rely on symbolic representations by design produce `reason based’ decisions. However\, those reasons are not explanations\, just the material from which explanations are built. \nHow do we build AI that explains its decisions? There are numerous challenges to be addressed both in providing material for explanations and constructing explanations. Ultimately\, some AI approaches would always be more explanation friendly than others. One can break a walnut with a sledgehammer\, but we do not use sledgehammers for this purpose because they tend to destroy the walnut. Analogously\, an AI approach can be used for a decision-making purpose\, but its explainability should be matched with a consideration of what impact do the produced decisions have. Otherwise\, we risk breaking something we cherish. \nIn this seminar we will describe how AI – sees the world and makes decisions. We will elucidate what happens when we say the AI reasons and the AI learns. We will discuss how researchers are trying to change different AI methods to gain more explainability from AI. \nBIO: \nSamia Touileb is a researcher at MediaFutures working on Norwegian Language Technologies. Her main research interests are information extraction\, sentiment analysis\, bias and fairness in NLP\, and applications of NLP and machine learning methods to tasks within social science research. She holds a PhD in Information Science with a focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP) from the University of Bergen\, was a Postdoc at the Language Technology Group at the University of Oslo\, and has been working within research in and applications of AI and NLP for almost a decade. \nGhazaal Sheikhi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at MediaFutures. Her research interests revolve around machine learning\, natural language processing and textual content analysis. She holds a PhD in Computer engineering (Machine Learning) from Eastern Mediterranean University\, North Cyprus and a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology\, Teheran\, Iran. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/uib-ai-2-but-why-make-ai-answer/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/uib_ai_2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220317T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220317T140000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062539 CREATED:20220222T102109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220320T133719Z UID:11451-1647522000-1647525600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Detecting Fake News by Using Weakly Supervised Learning. Assoc. Prof. Özlem Özgöbek DESCRIPTION:Dr. Özlem Özgöbek\, Associate Professor at NTNU\, Norway will give a seminar on 17 March\, at 13:00. \nTITLE: Detecting Fake News by Using Weakly Supervised LearningWHEN: Thursday 17 March\, 13:00-14:00WHERE: Zoom – \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/64607939290?pwd=cStOdG90YWRjSW02RmN6TjAxakQwZz09 \nMeeting ID: 646 0793 9290\n\nPassword: m9hyue9C\n \nABSTRACT: \nSpread and existence of fake news has been amplified by the advancements in internet and social media. Today\, it is one of the most important problems that affects the society. Various artificial intelligence methods have been used to address the automatic detection of fake news. However\, the complex and dynamic nature of news makes this task challenging. In this talk\, I’m going to address some of these challenges and present an ongoing work on fake news detection by using weakly supervised learning. \nBIO: \nDr. Özlem Özgöbek works as an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science at NTNU. Her research focuses on recommender systems\, privacy issues in recommender systems and disinformation detection for online news. She is a co-founder of Norwegian Big Data Symposium (NOBIDS) and actively involved in organizing INRA workshop series since 2014. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-detecting-fake-news-by-using-weakly-supervised-learning-assoc-prof-ozlem-ozgobek/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/NTNU.-dr.-Ozgobek.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220225T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220225T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062539 CREATED:20220203T142132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220306T135857Z UID:11210-1645786800-1645790400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Visual Content Verification in the News Domain. PhD Candidate Sohail Ahmed Khan DESCRIPTION:Sohail Ahmed Khan\, PhD Candidate from MediaFutures\, University of Bergen\, Norway will give a seminar on 25 February\, at 11:00. \nTITLE: Visual Content Verification in the News DomainWHEN: Friday 25 February\, 11:00-12:00WHERE: Zoom – https://uib.zoom.us/j/66009400805?pwd=MWpHZjdpK29TZTlSTVpZTXhDdkhSZz09 \nMeeting ID: 660 0940 0805\n\nPassword: qHdQfj1S\n \nABSTRACT: \nThe purpose of the talk is to get valuable comments and suggestions from the industrial partners about visual content verification in the news domain. I will talk about the research questions which I plan to answer during my PhD. This project is associated with Task 3.2 at MediaFutures’ WorkPackage-3 (Multimedia Content Analysis and Production) aiming to develop tools/prototypes for visual content verification. I will talk about visual content verification in the news domain while focusing on three research questions\, namely 1) how the journalists and news rooms verify visual user generated content they encounter online\, 2) how to effectively combat deep fake media\, and 3) how to fight mis/disinformation shared online in the form of cheap fake media? Our expectations from this project are 1) advancing the state-of-the-art in automated multimedia content verification and 2) developing prototypes based on the proposed models which can be employed for multimedia content verification by the industry partners. \nBIO: \nSohail is a PhD candidate at MediaFutures and University of Bergen. He holds an MSc in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sheffield\, UK. Prior to joining MediaFutures\, Sohail worked as a research assistant at Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI\, Abu Dhabi\, UAE. Before that\, he worked as a remote research assistant at CYENS Centre of Excellence\, Nicosia\, Cyprus. His research interests intersect deep learning\, computer vision and multimedia forensics. Sohail is currently associated with the MediaFutures’ Work Package 3\, Media Content Analysis and Production. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-visual-content-verification-in-the-news-domain/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/sohali-khan-e1639393146294.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220211T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220211T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062540 CREATED:20220101T154920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220204T084423Z UID:10587-1644580800-1644584400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: News diversity and recommendation systems: An interdisciplinary approach. Dr. Kristin Van Damme. DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kristin Van Damme\, a senior researcher from Artevelde University of Applied Sciences\, will give a seminar on 11 February at 12:00. \nTITLE: News diversity and recommendation systems: An interdisciplinary approach.WHEN: Friday 11 February\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: Zoom – https://uib.zoom.us/j/68035691403?pwd=aGtEaVlVREx3MzFVM3diQlJGU1JCZz09Meeting ID: 680 3569 1403Password: pXe8JC3C \nABSTRACT: \nConcerns about selective exposure and filter bubbles in the digital news environment have raised questions on how news recommendation systems can be more citizen-oriented so that they facilitate – rather than limit – the normative aims of journalism. In response to this question\, the NewsDNA project aimed at developing an algorithm that uses news diversity as a key driver for personalized news recommendation. To do so\, we combined insights from multiple research disciples: computer sciences (news recommendation systems); communication sciences (conceptualisations of news diversity); law (right to receive information) and computational linguistics (automated content extraction from text). As such\, we hoped to give stakeholders – such as policymakers and news producers – a realistic view on the opportunities and pitfalls of developing a citizen-oriented news recommendation system.   \nBIO: \nDr. Kristin Van Damme is senior researcher in journalism at Artevelde University of Applied Sciences (Research & Development Center Communication\, Media and Design) and project lead of the News Barometer project\, an investigation of youth’s (12-26y) relation with news and disinformation. Additionally\, she is lecturer Journalism at Communication Sciences at Ghent University. She obtained a PhD in journalism studies by studying news use in the transforming news environment. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-news-diversity-and-recommendation-systems-an-interdisciplinary-approach-dr-kristin-van-damme/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/profielfoto-rowles-Kristin-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220114T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220114T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062540 CREATED:20220107T203514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220115T205554Z UID:10693-1642158000-1642161600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Automated Fact-checking: the scope of the problem in the state-of-the-art. Postdoc Fellow Ghazaal Sheikhi. DESCRIPTION:Ghazaal Sheikhi\, Postdoc Fellow from MediaFutures\, University of Bergen\, Norway will give a seminar on 14 January\, at 11:00. \nTITLE: Automated Fact-checking: the scope of the problem in the state-of-the-artWHEN: Friday 14 January\, 11:00-12:00WHERE: Zoom https://uib.zoom.us/j/68310482035?pwd=NHR2NXhuU1lZSjFHdEZCekNxaC9yZz09Meeting ID: 683 1048 2035Password: krFzY285 \nABSTRACT: \nFact-checking in technical terms is the process of analyzing textual content for claim veracity detection. To mitigate the time and the human burden of fact-checking and to allow for more fact-checked articles\, the use of ML and NLP to automate the fact-checking procedure has attracted notable interest in the recent decade. Automated fact-checking can be decomposed into three major sub-tasks including claim detection\, evidence retrieval/ranking\, and claim verification. Factual verification is the term used to refer to evidence retrieval and verification\, integrated into a single task. Stance detection has also been considered as a distinct component of the pipeline\, but it is basically part of the verification procedure. Another integrant of the verification sometimes addressed as a separate task is justification/explanation generation. The proposed solutions either result in end-to-end fact-checking systems or tackle certain tasks in the pipeline. This seminar covers the scope of the automated fact-checking problem in recent literature focusing on several approaches based on traditional machine learning techniques\, deep learning models\, information retrieval systems\, and knowledge graphs.   \nBIO: \nGhazaal Sheikhi is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies\, University of Bergen\, Norway. Her research interests revolve around machine learning\, natural language processing and content analysis. Ghazaal investigates (semi) automated methods and tools to support fact-checking in newsrooms. In MediaFutures\, she studies AI systems\, NLP models and\, ML methods to support fact-checking in newsrooms\, particularly aiming at enhancing claim detection\, verification\, and justification.  \nBefore\, Ghazaal was an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering\, Final International University\, North Cyprus. She holds a PhD in Computer Engineering (Machine Learning) from Eastern Mediterranean University\, North Cyprus and a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology\, Tehran\, Iran. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-automated-fact-checking-the-scope-of-the-problem-in-the-state-of-the-art-postdoc-fellow-ghazaal-sheikhi/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Ghazaal_sized.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211202T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211202T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062540 CREATED:20211123T075729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211204T190523Z UID:10112-1638446400-1638450000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Modeling News Flows: How Feedback Loops Influence Citizens' Beliefs and Shape Societies. Assoc. Prof. Damian Trilling. DESCRIPTION:Damian Trilling\, Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam\, will give a seminar on 2 December\, at 12:00. \nTITLE: Modeling News Flows: How FeedbackLoops Influence Citizens’ Beliefs and Shape SocietiesWHEN: Thursday 2 December\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: Zoom : https://uib.zoom.us/j/62205578637?pwd=azNkZ21UY3V6cE5KYTVJRGxmclZOQT09#successMeeting ID: 622 0557 8637Password: YT2sX3MZ \nABSTRACT: \nIn both public and scientific debates\, many worry that the architecture of our current (online) media environment leads to so-called “echo chambers” or “filter bubbles”. In this talk\, I will challenge these metaphors and argue that they distract us from a deeper understanding of the underlying\, reinforcing processes. First\, I will discuss the role of recommender systems and other algorithmic systems in news exposure and dissemination\, and under which circumstances the feedback loops they produce can indeed have detrimental consequences for society. Second\, I will discuss feedback loops as they occur between different outlets and domains. This results in the outline a research agenda. I will end on an optimistic note\, though\, and argue how a stronger role of communication science can help developing beneficial tools for our society. \nBIO: \nDamian Trilling is Associate Professor at the Department of Communicaton Science at the University of Amsterdam)\, where he is Co-Director of the Communication in the Digital Society Initiative and member of the program group Political Communication and Journalism. He is also one of the co-founders of the Computational Communication Science Amsterdam Lab. Next to general courses in political communication\, he teaches intensively in the area of Computational Communication Science. His research focuses on the question how news spreads in today’s media landscape and how people follow the news. In particular\, he is interested in reinforcing processes\, such as the question in how far exposure and distribution re-inforce each other\, and how the users and algorithms interact in such processes. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-modeling-news-flows-how-feedbackloops-influence-citizens-beliefs-and-shape-societies-assoc-prof-damian-trilling/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Damian-e1475437748392-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211126T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211126T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062540 CREATED:20211120T203649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211129T070452Z UID:10037-1637928000-1637931600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Platform provenance analysis for digital images. Assistant Prof. Cecilia Pasquini. DESCRIPTION:Cecilia Pasquini\, Assistant Professor at the University of Trento\, Italy\, will give a seminar on 26 November\, at 12:00. \nTITLE: Platform provenance analysis for digital images. \nWHEN: Friday 26 November\, 12:00-13:00\nWHERE: https://uib.zoom.us/j/61463829083?pwd=UmpxU3AwY0JFWDZITWppWkcxWlZTUT09\n \nMeeting ID: 614 6382 9083\nPassword: 65UPcP4H \n\n \nABSTRACT: \n \nThe forensic analysis of image and video data that have been shared through social networks entails significant technological challenges. In fact\, during the (possibly multiple) uploading processes\, sharing platforms typically apply on the data routine operations such as recompression and resizing\, so to reduce memory and bandwidth requirements. While this implies a degradation of the visual information that hinders\, for instance\, the possibility to identify the acquisition device\, it has been observed that the transition through different social media platforms leave distinctive patterns on the data.By characterising those patterns at both signal and metadata-level\, information on previous sharing operations can be extracted\, thus possibly enabling a backward reconstruction of the sharing path of the visual data under analysis. This talk will report recent evidences in this direction and opportunities for provenance analysis on shared digital images.\n \nBIO: \n \nCecilia Pasquini received her PhD in 2016 from the University of Trento\, Italy. From 2016 to 2020\, she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Privacy and Security Lab with the Universität Innsbruck\, Austria\, and at the IT Security Lab at the University of Münster\, Germany. In 2013\, she was visiting PhD student at the University of Vigo\, Spain. Prior to that\, she received a BS and MS degree in Mathematics from the University of Ferrara\, Italy\, in 2010 and 2012.Her research area lies at the intersection of multimedia signal processing  and  information security\, with special focus on image and video forensics\, multimedia security\,  adversarial signal processing and machine learning. She has participated in several projects on these topics\, such as UNCHAINED (funded by DARPA)\, PREMIER (funded by MIUR)\, ITBDIF (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)\, J-MDS\, NOTIS\, ECMSF (funded by EUREGIO).  She has been General Co-Chair of the ACM Workshop on Information Hiding & Multimedia Security 2018\, and co-organizer of the special session “Information Security meets Adversarial Examples” at IEEE WIFS 2019. She is member of the Technical Program Committee of several conferences and workshops (e.g.\, ACM IH&MMSec\, IEEE WIFS\, IEEE ICASSP\, EUSIPCO)\, serves as reviewer for many journals (e.g.\, IEEE TIFS\, IEEE TCSVT\, IEEE TIP) and as Associate Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Information Security. She is an elected member of the EURASIP BForSec Technical Area Committee. She received the Top 10% paper award (IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing 2013) and the “F. Carassa” GTTI 2015 award for the best ongoing PhD.   URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-multi-clue-reconstruction-of-sharing-chains-for-social-media-images/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/P_Cecilia_Pasquini-e1637440800612.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211125T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211125T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062542 CREATED:20210916T123151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211129T065236Z UID:9240-1637841600-1637845200@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Translating Educational Data into Meaningful Practices: Insights from the field of Learning Analytics. Mohammad Khalil. DESCRIPTION:Mohammad Khalil\, senior researcher at UiB Centre for the Science of Learning & Technology (SLATE)\, will give a seminar on 25 November\, at 12:00. \nTITLE: Translating Educational Data into Meaningful Practices: Insights from the field of Learning AnalyticsWHEN: Thursday 25 November\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: https://uib.zoom.us/j/63125529816?pwd=OTc0MStQYUczTkEzTXVRZTlBYUpyQT09Meeting ID: 631 2552 9816Password: 8U0vAVAy \nABSTRACT: \nSince the last decade\, higher education has moved online and institutions have had access to more student data than ever before. A proactive move before the recent pandemic where online and virtual learning environments had functioned as primarily digital repositories of educational resources\, employing student data to improve learning experiences and environments was disseminated in 2011\, so-called Learning Analytics. For 11 years\, the emerging of Learning Analytics has evolved into a mature research field and practice. \nIn this talk\, I will share with you some facts about the field in 4Ws\, Where it originates from? What theories have influenced the field? How does it translate students’ data into useful practices (empirical evidence)? and What concerns have been raised through such usage? \nBIO:Mohammad Khalil\, PhD\, is a senior researcher of Learning Analytics at the Centre for the Science of Learning & Technology (SLATE). His research interests focus on understanding online learning behavior based on students digital traces in virtual environments\, including self-regulation. His other research interests include privacy and ethics\, and visualizations. Khalil is the author of over 60 research papers in scholarly journals and international conferences in the area of Learning Analytics and Technology-Enhanced Learning. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-translating-educational-data-into-meaningful-practices-insights-from-the-field-of-learning-analytics-mohammad-khalil/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Mohammad-Khalil.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211111T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211111T140000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062542 CREATED:20210916T121604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T143626Z UID:9233-1636635600-1636639200@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:CEDAS & MediaFutures Joint Seminar: Knowledge Graph: Exploring Reasoning and Learning with Jeff Z. Pan DESCRIPTION:Please join the Center for Data Science (CEDAS\, UiB) and MediaFutures for an invited talk by Dr. Jeff Z. Pan from the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh\, about the topic of Knowledge Graphs. \nTITLE: Knowledge Graph: Exploring Reasoning and LearningWHEN: 11 November\, 13:00-14:00WHERE: https://uib.zoom.us/j/66264523995?pwd=V0RCd3l4NHNkSHpBRzlXZzl0RDEwdz09 \nAbstract: The topic of large scare knowledge representation and reasoning has been popular over the last two decades. It has gone  through a few stages in recent years\, including the Semantic Web\, Linked Data and Knowledge Graph. Different stages come with different reasoning tasks; e.g.\, the Semantic Web stage favours ontological (schema) reasoning\, while the Linked Data stage attracts data reasoning and query answering. In the Knowledge Graph stage\, it seems that learning is regarded as a key reasoning task\, at least as an approximate reasoning task. In this talk\, I will share some of my thoughts on learning and reasoning in the Knowledge Graph stage\, from the perspective of approximate reasoning\, and maybe more. \nSpeaker: Dr Jeff Z. Pan is a Reader on Knowledge Graphs at  the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh. He co-chairs the Knowledge Graphs group at the Alan Turing Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Manchester. His research focuses primarily on knowledge representation and artificial intelligence\, in particular on knowledge graph based learning and reasoning\, and knowledge based natural language understanding and generations\, as well as their applications. He was an official reviewer of the international Knowledge Graph standards RDF and SPARQL and was a key contributor of the international standard (OWL) of Knowledge Graph schemas. He led the development of the award-wining TrOWL approximate reasoner\, which is one of the top three OWL 2 DL reasoners in the sound and complete Ontology Reasoner Evaluation (ORE2014). He was the Chief Scientist of the EU Marie-Curie K-Drive project. He is the Chief Editor of the first two books on Knowledge Graph. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Web Semantics (JWS) and of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS). He is a Programme Chair of the 19th International  Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020)\, the premier international forum for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph. \nFor more info from CEDAS\, please visit: https://www.uib.no/cedas-norsk/147863/knowledge-graph-exploring-reasoning-and-learning  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/cedas-mediafutures-joint-seminar-knowledge-graph-exploring-reasoning-and-learning/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/jeffpan4-1-e1635762026954.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211028T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211028T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062543 CREATED:20210916T121140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220225T081307Z UID:9231-1635422400-1635426000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Countering rumours in online social media: A comprehensive response with the focus on ML-based approaches\, Amir Ebrahimi Fard DESCRIPTION:Amir Ebrahimi Fard\, Postdoctoral Researcher on Explainable AI at Maastricht University\, will give a talk on Thursday 28 October\, at 12:00. \n  \nTITLE: Countering rumours in online social media: A comprehensive response with the focus on ML-based approachesWHEN: Thursday 28 October 2021\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: Zoom: https://uib.zoom.us/j/62501981715?pwd=cTFaemd6d2gzWTVlamcrWW9BTC8rdz09 Meeting ID: 625 0198 1715Password: MQFY5Zm1 \nAbstract:  \nThe phenomenon of rumour spreading refers to a collective process where people participate in the transmission of unverified and relevant information to make sense of ambiguous\, dangerous\, or threatening situations. The dissemination of rumours in certain subject domains such as healthcare\, economics\, and politics on a large scale no matter with what purpose could precipitate catastrophic repercussions. Thus it is of utmost importance to respond to this growing threat urgently and meticulously. There have been serious efforts by governments\, platforms\, news organisations\, and academic institutions around the world to curb and control the dissemination of online rumours; however\, the surge of unsubstantiated claims and conspiracy theories during the COVID time showed the power of this phenomenon once more. \nInspired by epidemiology\, during this seminar\, I will discuss a comprehensive and coordinated response to counter rumour spreading in social media. Besides\, in this response\, I will emphasise the role of machine learning-based models due to their scalability and point out one specific issue with current approaches to computational rumour detection. \nBio:  \nAmir Ebrahimi Fard is a postdoctoral researcher on Explainable AI at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering at Maastricht University. He received his PhD from TU Delft on the topic of rumour detection in online social media. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-amir-ebrahimi-fard/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/photo_Amir-Ebrahimi-Fard-scaled-e1636031008101.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211015T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211015T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062544 CREATED:20210916T115029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220225T081524Z UID:9224-1634299200-1634302800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Nordis - The Nordic Observatory for Digital Media and Information Disorder\, Carl-Gustav Lindén DESCRIPTION:Carl-Gustav Lindén\, Associate Professor in Data Journalism at the University of Bergen\, will give a talk to the MediaFutures community on 15 October at 12:00 about the new project titled “Nordis – The Nordic Observatory for Digital Media and Information Disorder”. The Nordis project is funded by the European Commission for a duration of two years\, and is led by DATALAB at Aarhus University in Denmark. It’s a Nordic consortium\, where the University of Bergen and Faktisk.no\, are the Norwegian partners. \nTITLE: Nordis – The Nordic Observatory for Digital Media and Information DisorderWHEN: Friday 15 October 2021\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: https://uib.zoom.us/j/67891397775?pwd=em9GeVg4K3Vmb25FVk4yb3VtQ0FmQT09Meeting ID: 678 9139 7775Password: jstmr0tC \nAbstract:  \nUniversity of Bergen (UiB) is part of the EU funded project NORDIS – Nordic observatory for digital media and information disorders that was launched on September 1. The European Commission has announced the eight selected national hubs that will become part of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) network. The network of hubs on digital media will contribute to the fight against disinformation. NORDIS will be an independent Nordic regional hub with all national certified fact-checkers and a university in each of the four biggest Nordic countries Sweden\, Finland\, Norway and Denmark. The consortium will contribute to EDMO and the European infrastructure of combating disinformation and digital information disorder with a specific welfare state perspective. NORDIS is coordinated by Aarhus Universitet and UiB is responsible for Work Package 3 that will center around innovation and technology. In this WP the researchers at UiB will collaborate closely with fact-checkers and new technology companies as well as other EDMO hubs to analyse user needs and develop new tools for verification of content. \nBio:  \nCarl-Gustav Lindén is Associate Professor of Data Journalism at UiB and will be working with the NORDIS project during 2021-2023. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-nordis-the-nordic-observatory-for-digital-media-and-information-disorder-carl-gustav-linden/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/carl-gustav-linden-e1636030793761.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210924T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210924T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062545 CREATED:20210906T094652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220225T081930Z UID:8958-1632481200-1632484800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Seminar: Natural Language Generation\, Automated Journalism and Finding the Middle Road DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures is pleased to announce that Leo Leppänen\, who is a computer science doctoral student at the Discovery Research Group of University of Helsinki\, Finland will be giving a seminar on the topic of natural language generation. \nWelcome to all! \nTITLE: Natural Language Generation\, Automated Journalism and Finding the Middle Road\nWHEN: Friday\, 24 September 2021\, at 11.00-12.00\nWHERE: https://uib.zoom.us/j/63314203494?pwd=dGM0MlkwR1QwUjY5RW9UZXR1VnJ3QT09#success\nMeeting ID: 633 1420 3494\nPassword: TC17bnzj \nAfter more than half a century of academic research\, natural language generation has established a clear foothold in the newsroom. In this talk\, I’ll discuss lessons learned from building multilingual natural language generation systems for several number-heavy news domains such as elections\, national statistics\, and COVID developments. We’ll discuss what I believe are the most significant relative downsides associated with commonly employed approaches\, and what could be a “middle road” that might sidestep at least some of said downsides. This exploration is not limited to purely technical aspects\, and we will also make short detours to some legal and ethical questions related to automated production of news texts.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Leo Leppänen is a computer science doctoral student at the Discovery Research Group of University of Helsinki\, Finland. His research focus is on data-to-text natural language generation\, more specifically on the automated generation of reports for purposes of news\, analysis of historical news paper collections\, teaching etc. In addition to approaching the topic from a computer science perspective\, he is also interested in both ethical and legal questions related to use of AI in the newsroom. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/natural-language-generation-automated-journalism-and-finding-the-middle-road/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/portrait_ljleppan_small-e1636031096757.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210617T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210617T140000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062545 CREATED:20210415T124900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210713T135613Z UID:5579-1623934800-1623938400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Seminar: Exploring media experience: why is it important to media innovation? Irene Costera Meijer\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam DESCRIPTION:Irene Costera Meijer\, Professor of Journalism Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, (The Netherlands) and Professor II at the University of Bergen will talk about why we should regard audience experience as key to both innovation and quality. \nTITLE: Exploring media experience: why is it important to media innovation?\nWHEN: Thursday\, 17 June 2021\, 13:00-14:00\nWHERE:https://uib.zoom.us/j/61527564041?pwd=M25Qay8ybHpSZVRjaVdxQXJRbHgwQT09\nMeeting ID: 615 2756 4041\nPasscode: erM6f2uy \nABSTRACT: In today’s world\, innovation appears to have replaced quality as the dominant concept in metajournalistic discourse. Innovation guards the distribution of financial resources – more investments in technology – and working conditions –more freelance journalists as a flexible workforce. Innovation also works as a distinctive mark of professional status and is at the center of antagonistic labor relations  – e.g. the introduction of robot journalism. \nThe shift from quality discourse to innovation discourse involved a change in the journalistic perception of audiences: from being irrelevant (if not a negative concern) to being main targets. \nAlthough the question of how to reach audiences seems to be still dominant\, news organizations appear to become more open and sensitive towards finding out how to become valuable to audiences\, how to open up their minds\, how to broaden their horizon\, and how to provide them with a quality experience that will enlighten them with reliable information considered worthwhile. \nIn this talk I will answer the question how innovation discourse and quality discourse may meet by focusing on what audiences experience as valuable journalism. I will demonstrate how it crystallized over the years into three key experiences: Learning something new\, Getting recognition and Increasing mutual understanding. \nBIO: Irene Costera Meijer is Professor of Journalism Studies and head of the Journalism Studies section at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is a world leading journalism and media scholar having recently set the agenda for the audience turn in journalism studies. Her research appeared in many journals and books and focuses on what news users value about journalism.  She also works as a professor II at the Research group for Media Use and Audience Studies of the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at University of Bergen. \nHer research interests focus on audience studies and in particular on the impact of digitalization on changing practices of media consumption\, media experiences and news use. When doing research she often collaborates with media organisations.  This makes it easier to translate scholarly results into relevant suggestions for every day professional practices and vice versa\, understanding the fundamental dilemmas of professional practices and translating these into academic publications. Costera Meijer is also on the editorial board of the academic journals Digital Journalism and Journalism Practice. \n  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-irene-costera-meijer-vrije-universiteit-amsterdam/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Irene_Costera_Meijer.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210608T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210608T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T062545 CREATED:20210519T132514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210705T072001Z UID:5663-1623150000-1623153600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Seminar: Computational Psychology in Recommender Systems\, Marko Tkalčič\, University of Primorska (Slovenia). DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures is pleased to announce that Marko Tkalčič\, who is an Associate Professor at University of Primorska (Slovenia) will be giving a seminar on the topic of computational psychology in recommender systems. \nWelcome to all! \nTITLE: Computational Psychology in Recommender Systems\nWHEN: Tuesday\, 8 June 2021\, at 11:00-12:00\nWHERE: https://uib.zoom.us/j/61489174500?pwd=MGRQWWs2K0lYQ1hPSlBJZjF5VU85Zz09\nMeeting ID: 614 8917 4500\nPassword: 27A9wUG6 \nABSTRACT: Recommender systems are systems that help users in decision-making situations where there is an abundance of choices. We can find them in our everyday lives\, for example in online shops. State-of-the-art research in recommender systems has shown the benefits of behavioural modeling. Behavioural modeling means that we use past ratings\, purchases\, clicks etc. to model the user preferences. However\, behavioural modeling is not able to capture certain aspects of the user preferences. In this talk I will show how the usage of complementary research in computational psychology\, such as detection of personality and emotions\, can benefit recommender systems. \nBIO: Marko Tkalčič is associate professor at the Faculty of Mathematics\, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (FAMNIT) at the University of Primorska in Koper\, Slovenia. He aims at improving personalized services (e.g. recommender systems) through the usage of psychological models in personalization algorithms. To achieve this\, he uses diverse research methodologies\, including data mining\, machine learning\, and user studies. He is editorial board member of the Springer UMUAI and Frontiers in Psychology journals and PC chair of the ACM UMAP 2021 conference. \n  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-computational-psychology-in-recommender-systems-marko-tkalcic-university-of-primorska-slovenia/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Marko-Tkalcic-e1625469689507.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR