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SUMMARY:Seminar: AI in the social sciences AND a taxonomy of fake news: Two research themes. Rich Ling\, Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore.
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to a seminar with Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology\, Rich Ling\, at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\, on Thursday\, 3 June. \nTITLE: AI in the social sciences AND a taxonomy of fake news: Two research themes.\nWHEN: Thursday\, 3 June 2021\, 13:00-14:00\nWHERE: https://uib.zoom.us/j/66200674584?pwd=a2lUZ1dNZEZNNzdycVI2c1Z3aHhuQT09\nMeeting ID: 662 0067 4584\nPassword: KC8KX7zi \nABSTRACT: In this talk\, Rich Ling will examine the role of AI in social science research. In addition\, he will examine a taxonomy of fake news. In the case of AI in the social sciences\, Ling will examine how this technology is emerging as a new tool that will eventually shape social science research in the coming years. When considering fake news\, Ling will review how this phenomenon has been seen over the past decade and how researchers have approached it. \nBIO: Rich Ling has been the Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology\, at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore where he studies the social consequences of mobile communication. Ling has written The mobile connection (2004)\, New Tech\, New Ties (2008) and Taken for grantedness (2012). He edits the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication\, and a founding co-editor of both Mobile Media and Communication and the Oxford University Press Series\, Studies in Mobile Communication. He is a member of Det Norske Vitenskaps Akademi (The Norwegian Academy of Arts and Letters)\, Academia Europaea\, and a fellow of the International Communication Association. \nWelcome to all!
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-rich-ling-nanyang-technological-university-singapore/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Should we have PETs in "smart" homes? Tomasz Kosinski\, Chalmers University of Technology
DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures invites you to join us for a talk with PhD candidate Tomasz Kosinski\, Chalmers University of Technology. The topic of his talk is privacy controls for the IoT systems we are surrounded by. \nWelcome to all! \nTITLE: Should we have PETs in “smart” homes?\nWHEN: 20 May 2021\, 13:00-14:00\nWHERE: https://uib.zoom.us/j/66870039042?pwd=TElra0ZlL0dFaFlaMFh5TjJ3dklmdz09\nMeeting ID: 668 7003 9042\nPassword: 2vDBE%p% \nABSTRACT: This talk is not a lecture. The goal is to use plain English. Why? To simply convey some practical information and insights. About what? On Privacy Enhancing Technologies; PETs for short. What for? So that you can answer the question in the title for yourself. (Correct\, I won’t do this one for you.) Why should you care to listen? Will it matter if you don’t? To whom? And what to use PETs for? Can it be applied to an Amazon Echo or Google Home? A “smart” lightbulb or your “smart” TV? All of them? These questions I’ll strive to answer. And I hope you will have more. Especially that in this popular science format\, I will touch upon topics that should resonate with each of you and that are not limited to dark\, dusty and narrow university corridors or Ivory towers. Tangible examples of this include reports of The Norwegian Consumer Council\, Forbrukerrådet\, regarding consumer-unfriendly practices. Similarly\, recent NRK reports on location tracking through smartphone apps illustrate some issues that will be brought up in the talk. \nBIO: The guy who will insist on not answering the question in the title is currently a pre-graduation PhD candidate. He’s based at Chalmers\, a Swedish technical university located in Gothenburg. His core background is in Computer Science. The pre-PhD excursions involved software engineering\, embedded systems\, quadcopters\, AI methods\, human-robot and human-computer interaction. During the PhD time\, he learned a bit about human studies (with mixed methods)\, scrutinizing smartphone apps (on Android) and analyzing the data showing what IoT devices tend to send over networks. Oh\, and we didn’t bother asking about his off-work interests\, since his PhD is on Privacy. You better follow him on social media for that.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-tomasz-kosinski-chalmers-university-of-technology/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210506T141500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210506T150000
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SUMMARY:Seminar: User-centered Investigation of Popularity Bias in Recommender Systems
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Center for Data Science (CEDAS\, UiB) and MediaFutures for an invited talk by Himan Abdollahpouri from the Northwestern University\, USA\, about the topic of popularity bias in recommender systems. \nWelcome to all! \n\nTITLE: User-centered Investigation of Popularity Bias in Recommender Systems.\nWHEN: 6 May 2021\, 14:15-15:00\nWHERE: https://uib.zoom.us/j/63657771765?pwd=anZlNkVPdkxoQ0FmZit5WDJ0R3FkQT09 \nABSTRACT: Recommendation and ranking systems are known to suffer from popularity bias; the tendency of the algorithm to favor a few popular items while under-representing the majority of other items. Prior research has examined various approaches for mitigating popularity bias and enhancing the recommendation of long-tail\, less popular\, items. The effectiveness of these approaches is often assessed using different metrics to evaluate the extent to which over-concentration on popular items is reduced. However\, not much attention has been given to the user-centered evaluation of this bias; how different users with different levels of interest towards popular items (e.g.\, niche vs blockbuster-focused users) are affected by such algorithms. In this talk\, I first give an overview of the popularity bias problem in recommender systems. Then\, I show the limitations of the existing metrics to evaluate popularity bias mitigation when we want to assess these algorithms from the users’ perspective and I propose a new metric that can address these limitations. In addition\, I present an effective approach that mitigates popularity bias from the user-centered point of view. Finally\, I investigate several state-of-the-art approaches proposed in recent years to mitigate popularity bias and evaluate their performances using the existing metrics and also from the users’ perspective. Using two publicly available datasets\, I show that many of the existing popularity bias mitigation techniques ignore the users’ tolerance towards popular items. The proposed user-centered method\, on the other hand\, can tackle popularity bias effectively for different users while also improving the existing metrics. \nBIO: Himan Abdollahpouri is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Spiegel Research Center at Northwestern University\, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder under the supervision of Prof. Robin Burke. He was a pioneer in developing the multi-stakeholder recommendation research paradigm and has worked on the biases that might jeopardize the fairness of the recommendations across different stakeholders. In particular\, he has done extensive work on the popularity bias in recommender systems and proposed several algorithms and evaluation metrics in this area. His work has appeared in top conferences such as RecSys\, CIKM\, UMAP\, and journals such as UMUAI. He also has worked at Pandora Media and Spotify Research as a machine learning scientist.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-user-centered-investigation-of-popularity-bias-in-recommender-systems/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement
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SUMMARY:Seminar: JECT.AI: Using digital technologies to augment work in the newsroom. Neil Maiden\, City University of London
DESCRIPTION:Our invited speaker\, Professor Neil Maiden\, Professor of Digital Creativity\, Cass Business School\, City University of London\, will give a talk about JECT.AI – a new digital product for augmented journalism. Maiden will also demonstrate a series of the tool’s features in the context of newsroom activities. \nWelcome to all! \nTITLE: JECT.AI: Using digital technologies to augment work in the newsroom.\nWHEN: 4 May 2021\, 12:15-13:00.\nWHERE: https://uib.zoom.us/j/63279839902?pwd=UFpUR2ZQZENidUQ5ell2MVFZYm51dz09\nMeeting ID: 632 7983 9902\nPassword: 8nfn2Y0d \nABSTRACT: This seminar will introduce JECT.AI\, a new digital product for newsrooms that has emerged from previous research and development work. The use of AI technologies in newsrooms remains contentious. Therefore\, the JECT.AI developers worked closely with journalists to design a product that augments the existing capabilities of journalists\, and ensures that journalists direct the product’s use. The seminar will demonstrate a series of JECT.AI features in the context of newsroom activities\, to reveal how the product augments rather than inhibit how journalists work\, and can enable newsrooms to operate more effectively. \nBIO: Neil Maiden is Professor of Digital Creativity at the Business School (formerly Cass) at City\, University of London\, and Director of the National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI funded by Research England. He is also Chief Product Officer at JECT.AI Limited. His current research interests include uses of artificial intelligence to augment human creativity and enhancing design methods and tools to generate more creative solutions. He is and has been a principal and co-investigator on numerous EPSRC- and EU-funded research projects with a total value of over €73 million. He has published over 220 peer-reviewed papers in academic journals\, conferences and workshops proceedings. He was Program Chair for the 12th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering in Kyoto in 2004\, and Editor of the IEEE Software’s Requirements column from 2005-2013. His details are available at https://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/neil-maiden. \n 
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-professor-neil-maiden-city-university-of-london/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210422T120000
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SUMMARY:Seminar: DeepFact: Deep Learning for Automated Fact Checking. Vinay Setty\, University of Stavanger
DESCRIPTION:Associate Professor Vinay Setty from the University of Stavanger will hold a seminar summarizing the latest updates in the topic of automated fact checking. The video recording is available below. \nWelcome to all! \nTITLE: Deep Learning for Automated Fact Checking.\nWHEN: 22 April 2021\, 12:00-13:00. \n  \n \nABSTRACT: The interest around automated fact-checking has increased as misinformation has become a major problem online. A typical pipeline for an automated fact-checking system consists of four steps: (1) detecting check-worthy claims\, (2) retrieving relevant documents\, (3) selecting most relevant snippets for the claim and (4) predicting the veracity of the claim. In this talk\, I will talk about the use of state-of-the-art deep neural networks such as LSTMs and Transformer architectures for these steps. Specifically\, how deep hierarchical attention networks can be used for predicting the veracity of the claims and how to use the attention weights to extract the evidence for the claims. In addition\, I will also talk about how to do check-worthy claim detection using Transformer models. Using several benchmarks from political debates and manual fact checking websites such as Politifact and Snopes\, we show that these models outperform strong baselines. I will also summarize the state-of-the-art research within the areas of automated fact-checking and conclude with a set of challenges and problems remaining in this area. \nBIO: Dr. Vinay Setty is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Before that he has been an Assistant Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark and Postdoctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Setty got is PhD from University of Oslo\, Norway. \nDr. Setty’s recent research areas mainly include information retrieval\, text and graph mining using machine learning techniques. Text mining includes dealing with unstructured text\, specifically news documents for tasks such as fake news detection\, news ranking\, news recommendation etc. Graph mining involves training network embeddings for machine learning on graphs and knowledge graphs. He has over 30 publications including several publications in highly competitive conferences in the area of data mining and Information Retrieval TheWebConf\, SIGIR\, VLDB\, CIKM and WSDM.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-deepfact-deep-learning-for-automated-fact-checking-vinay-setty-university-of-stavanger/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210420T140000
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Reflections of Ourselves - Mobile Psychological Assessment with Smartphones. Clemens Stachl\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures is pleased to announce a seminar with Clemens Stachl from Stanford University. The video recording is available below. \nWelcome to all! \nTITLE: Reflections of Ourselves – Mobile Psychological Assessment with Smartphones.\nWHEN: 20 April 2021\, 14:00-15:00. \n \nABSTRACT: The increasing digitization of our society radically changes how we use digital media\, exchange information\, and make decisions. This development also changes how social scientists collect data on human behavior and experience in the field. One new form of data comes from in-vivo high-frequency mobile sensing via smartphones. Mobile sensing allows for the investigation of formerly intangible psychological constructs with objective data. In particular mobile sensing enables fine-grained\, longitudinal data collections in the wild and at large scale. The additional combination of mobile sensing with state of the art machine learning methods\, provides a perspective for the direct prediction of psychological traits and behavioral outcomes from these data. In this talk I will give an overview on my work combining machine learning with mobile sensing and discuss the opportunities and limitations of this approach. Consequently\, I will provide an outlook perspective on where the routine use of mobile psychological sensing could take research and society alike. \nBIO: Clemens Stachl is a post-doctoral researcher specializing in research methodology\, behavioral observation and individual differences. His research includes topics in psychology\, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. He primarily uses digital recordings from consumer electronics together with computational modeling to investigate the connections between psychological characteristics\, states\, behavior and situational factors. Throughout his work he promotes open scientific practices.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-reflections-of-ourselves-mobile-psychological-assessment-with-smartphones-with-clemens-stachl-stanford-university/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210416T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210416T100000
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Are Filter Bubbles Real? Axel Bruns\, QUT
DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures is pleased to announce a seminar with Axel Bruns from Queensland University of Technology (QUT). The video recording is available below. \nWelcome to all! \nTITLE: Are Filter Bubbles Real?\nWHEN: 16 April 2021\, 09:00-10:00. \n \nABSTRACT: The success of political movements that appear to be immune to any factual evidence that contradicts their claims – from the Brexiteers to the ‘alt-right’\, neo-fascist groups supporting Donald Trump – has reinvigorated claims that social media spaces constitute so-called ‘filter bubbles’ or ‘echo chambers’. But while such claims may appear intuitively true to politicians and journalists – who have themselves been accused of living in filter bubbles –\, the evidence that ordinary users experience their everyday social media environments as uniform and homophilous spaces is far more limited. For instance\, a 2016 Pew Center study has shown that only 23% of U.S. users on Facebook and 17% on Twitter now say with confidence that most of their contacts’ views are similar to their own. 20% have changed their minds about a political or social issue because of interactions on social media. Similarly\, large-scale studies of follower and interaction networks on social media show that such networks are often thoroughly interconnected and facilitate the flow of information across boundaries of personal ideology and interest\, except for a few especially hardcore partisan communities. This talk explores the evidence for and against echo chambers and filter bubbles. It moves the present debate beyond a merely anecdotal footing\, and offers a more reliable assessment of this purported threat. \nBIO: Prof. Axel Bruns is a Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane\, Australia\, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. His books include Are Filter Bubbles Real? (2019) and Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism\, Social Media\, and the Public Sphere (2018)\, and the edited collections Digitizing Democracy (2019)\, the Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (2016)\, and Twitter and Society (2014). His current work focusses on the study of user participation in social media spaces such as Twitter\, and its implications for our understanding of the contemporary public sphere\, drawing especially on innovative new methods for analysing ‘big social data’. He served as President of the Association of Internet Researchers in 2017–19. His research blog is at https://snurb.info/\, and he tweets at @snurb_dot_info.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-axel-bruns-queensland-university-of-technology-qut/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences
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SUMMARY:Steering Board meeting
DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures’ first steering board will take place 25th of March from 12:00 to 14:00. This is an internal event that is scheduled online.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/steering-board-meeting/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210311T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210311T140000
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Multimedia Verification\, with Duc Tien Dang Nguyen\, UiB
DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures is pleased to announce a seminar with Duc Tien Dang Nguyen from the University of Bergen. \nWelcome to all! \nTITLE: Multimedia Verification – An overview on technologies and services for the detection of multimedia-based disinformation in the era of deep networks.\nWHEN: 11 March 2021\, 12:00-13:00. \nABSTRACT: In this seminar\, Duc Tien Dang Nguyen will give a broad overview of how researchers seek to advance methods that detect and reveal modified and manipulated images and videos\, and building up trust in online media based on advanced multimedia verification algorithms. He will also give discussions on how AI can be used and misused in the era of deep networks. \nThese main topics will be discussed within the seminar:\n– Image manipulation detection\n– Deepfake generation and detection\n– Social multimedia verification\n– The limits of current forensic tools \nBIO: Dr. Duc Tien Dang Nguyen is an Associate Professor of Information Science. His area of expertise is on multimedia forensics\, lifelogging and multimedia retrieval. Duc Tien is the author and co-author of more than a hundred peer-reviewed research papers that have been cited over a thousand times. He has been PC member at a number of conferences\, co-organizer of both the Multimedia Verification\, the NTCIR Lifelog Task and the ImageClef Lifelog tasks\, and co-organizer of over ten other MediaEval tasks. He is also to be the incoming General Chair of MMM 2023.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/seminar-multimedia-verification-with-duc-tien-dang-nguyen-uib/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210202T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210202T163000
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SUMMARY:Opening of SFI MediaFutures
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to the digital opening of SFI MediaFutures – Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology and Innovation\, Tuesday 2nd of February 14.00-15.30 CET.\nTogether with 13 other R&D partners from the media and tech industry and the academic world we are creating the first research centre in Norway developing responsible media technology\, and everybody is welcome to the digital opening of the centre. \nThe centre’s main goal is to generate innovation and value creation for the Norwegian news media and media technology industry through long-term research on responsible media technologies\, and we focus on advanced new media technology for responsible and effective media user engagement\, media content production & analysis\, media content interaction and accessibility. MediaFutures will also research new methods and metrics for precise audience understanding\, for example AI technology to reveal fake news or filter bubbles. \n  \nStreaming\nThe event is broadcasted via https://vimeo.com/event/605507 \nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n1400\nWelcome\nby Centre Director Christoph Trattner\n\n\n1405\nOpening remarks\nHenrik Asheim\, Norwegian Minister for Research and Higher Education \nUniversity of Bergen by Rector Margareth Hagen \nDepartment of information science and media studies by Head of department Leif Ove Larsen \nResearch Council of Norway\n\n\n1415\nVideo greetings from research partners\nUniversity of Oslo\nNORCE\nUniversity of Stavanger\n\n\n1420\nPanel conversation\nModerator: Christoph Trattner\, Centre Director\, MediaFutures\, UiB \nIn the panel: \n\nIngrid Agasøster\, Chief Operating Officer\, Fonn Group\nEirik Solheim\, NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Cooperation\nChristian Birkeland\, Digital director/director TV2 Sumo\, TV2\n\n\n\n\n1440\nKeynote: Sinan Aral\nSinan Aral is a Global Authority on Business Analytics; Award-winning Researcher; Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist; Director of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy and Social Analytics Lab and a founding partner at Manifest Capital. He is a managerial economist and econometrician by training whose expertise spans social networks\, causal inference\, the design and analysis of large-scale digital experiments\, machine learning\, predictive modeling\, natural language processing\, AI\, big data\, marketing\, IT\, social commerce\, ecommerce\, behavior change and economic productivity. He earned his PhD at MIT and completed his Master’s degrees at the London School of Economics and at Harvard.\n\n\n1500\nVideo greetings from industry partners\nAmedia\nBergens Tidende\nFonn\nHighsoft\nIBM\nNRK\nSchibsted\nTV2\nVimond\nVizrt\n\n\n1505\nKeynote: Ricardo Baeza-Yates\nBias on Search and Recommender Systems\nIn this presentation we cover all biases that affect search and recommender systems. They include biases on the data\, the algorithms as well as the user interaction\, in particular the ones related to relevance feedback loops (e.g.\, ranking and personalization).  In each case we cover the main concepts and when known\, the techniques to ameliorate them\, as well as biases that might be product of the evaluation methods used. This presentation is partially based on Bias on the Web\, Communications of ACM\, June 2018. Ricardo Baeza-Yates is currently Director of Graduate Data Science Programs (part-time) of Northeastern University\, Silicon Valley campus\, since January 2018. Between 2016 and 2020 he was CTO of NTENT\, a search technology company based in California. Previously\, he was VP of Research at Yahoo Labs. He is part-time professor at  the University of Chile and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona\, Spain\, and an adjunct professor at the CS department of the University of Waterloo\, Canada. His research interests includes algorithms and data structures\, information retrieval\, web search and data mining\, and data science and visualization. He is ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow.\n\n\n1525\nEnd remark\nby Centre Director Christoph Trattner\n\n\n\n\nWelcome!
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/center-opening/
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