From May 4th to 6th, the University of Bergen, in collaboration with MediaFutures, is organizing Workshop Tracking Eyes and Mind. To view the updated program and register for the event, please visit the official organizer's website. Registration Deadline: 30.03.2026 - 23.55 Workshop Goals: The workshop focus on demonstrations of eye tracking designs in Linguistics and […]

Nordic Media Days (Nordiske Mediedager) is the biggest media conference in Northern Europe, bringing together journalists, editors, media leaders, researchers, and industry professionals to discuss key developments in journalism, media, and communication.  The event offers insights into both current challenges and emerging trends in the media landscape.  Nordic Media Days is relevant for media professionals, researchers, students, and others interested […]

Welcome to a public lecture with our new honorary doctor professor Luciano Floridi. Date: 20.05.2026 Time:15.30–16.15 Venue:Storsalen, Nygårdsgaten 5 Please arrive five to ten minutes before the starting time. The University of Bergen has appointed Professor Luciano Floridi of Yale University as an honorary doctor, following a nomination from the Faculty of Social Sciences and […]

Date: 20.05.2026 Time: 17.00–19.00 Venue: Media City Bergen, Lars Hillesgate 30 Our honorary doctor Luciano Floridi will be the main guest at a workshop on the topic "AI and social futures" in Media City Bergen. The workshop will engage staff, students and stakeholders at Infomedia in a discussion of core challenges for the future of […]

Welcome to a half-day seminar discussing new practices and phenomena emerging from the study of algorithms and artificial intelligence in culture and society. The seminar will include talks from two visiting scholars doing research on cutting-edge phenomena in digital culture – algomaxxing and AI influencers – followed by a lunch discussion in which participants can […]

About the Event Artificial intelligence is transforming journalism and the media industry at an unprecedented pace, creating both new opportunities and significant challenges. This event brings together researchers and industry partners from SFI MediaFutures to explore how responsible AI is moving from research into practice in Norwegian news media. MediaFutures Centre Leader Christoph Trattner, Innovation […]

CANCELLED / POSTPONED Unfortunately, our joint event with Det Moderne India has been postponed at short notice. Our main speaker, Saurav Das of the Cockroach Janta Party movement, is no longer able to join us due to recent political developments in India. A second speaker has also had to withdraw. At the heart of this […]

Ryan Marinelli will be holding a tutorial at PyData, Amsterdam. Evaluating large language models is expensive. Standard benchmarking practices run fixed numbers of trials regardless of how quickly signal emerges, wasting compute when differences are obvious and under-sampling when they are subtle. This talk introduces Bayesian sequential stopping rules as a principled alternative. Rather than […]