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SUMMARY:Trends in news use and avoidance
DESCRIPTION:In 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. \nOn February 16th\, MediaFutures work package 1 is inviting to a lunch seminar on the development of news use and avoidance. \nThe seminar will be held in Norwegian. \nSeminar speaker is Ingvild Hjertaas\, Media Researcher in NRK Analysis / NRK News. Ingvild worked 10 years in Aftenposten as product manager where she also was giving courses in digital tools and content production before she started in NRK in 2017. She has developed a highly effective understanding of what works and engages users online\, and has played a key role in the development and operation of popular services such as quizzes and word games. The lunchseminar will start at 12 o’clock in MediaFutures office\, 3rd floor in MCB. To join digital follow the link to zoom 
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/trends-in-news-use-and-avoidance/
LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008
CATEGORIES:Seminar,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences
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SUMMARY:Academic breakfast with Erik Knudsen
DESCRIPTION:The SV-faculty invites all students and employees at UiB to attend Erik Knudsens presentation about news avoiders in Norway. \nHave you found yourself consciously avoiding news or specific news topics over the past year? For instance\, have you refrained from clicking on stories about the dire situations in Ukraine or Gaza? If so\, you’re not alone. New figures from the Media Survey 2024 reveal that a whopping 34 percent of Norwegians are classified as “news avoiders.” Is it a democratic issue that so many people are dodging the news? Should news avoiders feel guilty? Erik Knudsen doesn’t think so. He discusses his research on people’s selective media consumption and news avoidance\, citing results from the Media Survey 2024 recently presented at the Nordic Media Days. Knudsen will also offer insights from an ongoing MediaFutures study on whether so-called “constructive news” – solution-oriented news that emphasizes hope and possibilities over negativity – could serve as a kind of “antidote” to reduce news avoidance. \nErik Knudsen is an associate professor at the Department of Information and Media Studies and works as work package 1 leader in SFI MediaFutures.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/academic-breakfast-with-erik-knudsen/
LOCATION:Vrimearealet\, SV-bygget\, 3.etasje
CATEGORIES:Events,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240531T120000
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SUMMARY:Political news analysis by YouTubers : Initial results from quantitative processing of a textual corpus
DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures Work Package 1 and The Network for culture\, inequality and democracy (KUD/CID) at Infomedia invite to a public lecture on the topic of alternative political analysis on YouTube\, given by Quentin Gilliotte\, Professeur Junior at Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris\, France) There will be time for a Q&A.     \nThe productions on digital platforms are becoming an increasingly significant source of information. Within this context\, a large number of actors on digital platforms offer analyses and commentary on political current events. Within the Francophone space\, we find video creators such as HugoDécrypte\, Tatiana Ventôse\, Usul\, and Gaspard G. These actors place themselves in opposition to traditional media (television\, radio) : they advocate for an “alternative” way of handling information\, whether in terms of the audience they target\, the topics they cover\, or the formats they use. How do these different actors address political current events? Considering both economic models and political positions\, what topics are mobilized? \nThe communication will proceed in two stages. Firstly\, I will present the method for constructing the corpus of selected channels through data extraction from the YouTube API\, utilizing network analysis tools. Secondly\, I will present a mapping of the topics addressed by these different video creators based on the automated textual analysis of a corpus of 8740 transcribed videos (representing all videos published by the selected actors between January and July 2023) using a topic modeling method (Latent Dirichlet Allocation).
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/political-news-analysis-by-youtubers-initial-results-from-quantitative-processing-of-a-textual-corpus/
LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008
CATEGORIES:Events,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240618T090000
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SUMMARY:Making sense of news audiences and their experiences: Practices and responses to news in the age of datafication
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Final Seminar of our Ph.D Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus. \nCommentator: Assistant Professor Joëlle Swart (University of Groningen). \nOn June 18th\, the Department of Information Science and Media Studies organizes a PhD Final Seminar for candidate Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus. The Final Seminar takes place toward the end of the PhD period\, when the candidate is a few months away from submitting their thesis. \nCommentator: Joëlle Swart\, University of Groningen. \nTitle: Making sense of news audiences and their experiences: Practices and responses to news in the age of datafication\nThis thesis explores how people relate to news as experience. I ask how news audiences’ experiences can be captured and how these experiences can help provide a more profound understanding of how people relate to news in everyday life. \nHidden practices\nWhile audiences have become increasingly central to journalistic practices and academic discussions about journalism\, the understanding of audiences’ practices and behaviors are paradoxically dominated by professional measures and quantification of user data like clicks\, time spent\, and sales rather than audiences’ own experiences with news. A central aim of this thesis is to explore hidden aspects of people’s news consumption not found in digital traces and thereby advance a phenomenologically grounded understanding of experiences that shape interactions with news. \nTo answer these questions\, I have conducted recurring interviews and media diaries with news audiences\, supplemented with video ethnography and data donations. This empirical material is analyzed through four articles. The first article explicates the overarching term ‘media experience’ as an analytical concept to capture key insights about mediated lives in digital societies. The second article zooms in on the experiences of young adults who do not pay for news and their considerations for not subscribing to digital news subscriptions. The third article critically assesses the metric of ‘time spent’ by analyzing how people navigate when reading news online and how short bursts of news use relate to meaningful experiences. Finally\, the fourth article offers a conceptualization of ‘news experience’ as an analytical lens to understand how people relate to news in everyday life\, empirically grounded in six distinct forms of news experience. \nA holistic approach\nThe thesis highlights the significance of a holistic approach to understanding people’s complex practices and behaviors. Whereas research and news professionals predominantly have made sense of people’s news use through cognitive approaches that highlight agency and intentionality\, this thesis also emphasizes experiential qualities\, which encompasses sensory\, affective\, perceptional\, technological\, and social dimension.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/making-sense-of-news-audiences-and-their-experiences-practices-and-responses-to-news-in-the-age-of-datafication/
LOCATION:Room 514\, Fosswinckels gate 6
CATEGORIES:Events,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences
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SUMMARY:Mid-term evaluation of PhD candidate Khadiga Seddik
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 4th\, PhD candidate Khadiga Seddik will have her mid-term evaluation. \nMain supervisor: Erik Knudsen \nCo-Supervisor: Damian Trilling\, Alain Starke (Step-in) \nExternal Evaluator: Sole Pera \n\nTitle: The Influence of News Recommender technology on Shaping Selective Exposure and Sharing. \nAbstract:  \nDespite the benefits the news recommenders provide\, overly personalized news recommendations and too much exposure to like-minded news can pose a threat to democracy by leading to filter bubble\, echo-chambers\, and political polarization. These negative consequences are not given\, but they could depend on conditions and factors under which news recommenders amplify or reduce selective exposure. Many studies argue that news recommenders can be programmed to promote factors that reduce selective exposure because they are programmed by human beings\, and they are dependent on the decisions surrounding the implementation and design of the technology. However\, programming recommender systems to shape selective exposure is not a straightforward task\, as we don’t know which factors the recommenders should be designed to promote\, as well as how the recommenders should promote them. In this research project I investigate the heavily debated consequences of news recommender technologies\, selective exposure and selective of like-minded news. The aim is to shift the scholarly attention from uncovering whether the current recommenders amplify or reduce selective exposure to understanding the conditions under which recommender systems do so\, given that they are designed for that purpose. By doing so\, we shift the responsibility for the democratic implications of recommenders from the technology itself to the decisions surrounding the implementation and design. \nThe project is a part of a larger project\, the NEWSREC project (https://www.newsrec.ai). The main objective of NEWSREC project is to study\, understand\, and assess the precise conditions under which algorithmic news recommenders have positive or negative effects on the democratic role of the news media by focusing on both the input side and the output side of news recommenders.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mid-term-evaluation-of-phd-candidate-khadiga-seddik/
LOCATION:SFI MediaFutures\, MCB
CATEGORIES:Events,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement
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