Academic breakfast with Erik Knudsen
Vrimearealet, SV-bygget, 3.etasjeThe SV-faculty invites all students and employees at UiB to attend Erik Knudsens presentation about news avoiders in Norway. Have 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 […]
Ethical considerations regarding the use of AI
Kode Permanenten, Nordahl Bruns gate 9, BergenWestern Norwegian Film Centre, in collaboration with the Zephyr Media Fund, BIFF, and the Film Association, invites you to industry days and a film festival at Kode Permanenten on May 29th and 30th in Bergen, where we gather the film industry in the region for inspiring lectures, presentations of fresh film and TV projects, and […]
International Workshop: “AI & Political Conflict”
Media Futures at Media City Bergen, 3rd Floor, SUJO UndervisningsromThe Boston-Bergen Forum on Digital Futures invites to a two-day hybrid event, bringing together prominent scholars to discuss the impact of AI-based platforms and their underlying technological, normative, and economic principles, on political discourse, deep disagreement, and conflict. We are happy to invite to our second international workshop “AI & Political Conflict”, a two-day, hybrid […]
Humaniora meets Artifical Intelligence
Universitetet i Bergen, Storsalen, Nygårdsgaten 5UHR-Humaniora and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bergen invite to a conference on artificial intelligence and the humanities on May 31st. The event will be in Norwegian. Artificial intelligence (AI) has opened up new possibilities for how we communicate, create art, and participate in democracy. However, while the development of AI is […]
Political news analysis by YouTubers : Initial results from quantitative processing of a textual corpus
MediaFutures MCB Store læringsrom, Læringslab 3rd floorMediaFutures 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. The productions on digital platforms are becoming an increasingly […]
One size fits one – accessibility through preferences
RemoteYngvar Nordberg, representing TV 2 Skole AS and WP4 on Media Content Interaction & Accessibility, will be an invited presenter at the COST LEAD-ME Seminar on "Media Accessibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”, taking place on June 4, 2024, at the St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus. Remote participants are welcome: Video call link: https://meet.google.com/mdr-wyvp-ccm Yngvar Nordberg, TV […]
AI Regulation and Governance: A Cross-Jurisdictional Approach
Domus Bibliotheca, Karl Johans gate 47, 0162, OsloMediaFutures associate professor Samie Touileb is giving a keynote speech on AI technology at this conference. With the EU’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act being adopted and various major jurisdictions deliberating AI policy at both national and international levels, this conference provides a timely platform to navigate the myriad legal and policy issues AI presents, from […]
Transparency, Privacy, and Fairness in Recommender Systems
MediaFutures MCB Store læringsrom, Læringslab 3rd floorMediaFutures has invited Dipl.Ing. Dr.techn. Dominik Kowald from Graz, Austria to talk about transparency, privacy and fairness in recommender systems. He is research area manager in Fair AI at the Know-Center and senior researcher and lecturer – ISDS (TU Graz). Recommender systems have become a pervasive part of our daily online experience by analyzing past usage […]
Making sense of news audiences and their experiences: Practices and responses to news in the age of datafication
Room 514, Fosswinckels gate 6Welcome to the Final Seminar of our Ph.D Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus. Commentator: Assistant Professor Joëlle Swart (University of Groningen). On 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 […]
Addressing the Next-Poster Problem: A Hybrid Recommender System for Streaming Platforms
Møterom 1 MCB09:30 Pre-discussion (attendants: Mehdi Elahi, Benjamin Kille) 10:00 start explanation followed by thesis presentation (attendants: all) Around 10:40 Interrogation (attendants: Alvsvåg, Mehdi Elahi, Benjamin Kille) Around 11:15 Consultation between censors (attendants: Mehdi Elahi, Benjamin Kille) Around 11:35: Results (attendants: all) Title: Addressing the Next-Poster Problem: A Hybrid Recommender System for Streaming Platforms Abstract: Recommendation strategies in the Movie […]
AI Solutions for Local Journalism Challenges: A Design Thinking Approach and Beyond
OnlineWP3 invites to a digital seminar on AI for local journalism. Speaker is the Postdoctoral Researcher Dr Reshmi G. Pillai from Vrije University Amsterdam. Journalism has been transformed by technological advancements over the last two decades, causing significant economic disruption among other challenges. The emergence of Artificial Intelligence has accelerated this paradigm shift, presenting tremendous […]
Advancing Image and Video Understanding Beyond Traditional Paradigms: Vocabulary-Free Classification and Zero-Shot Temporal Localization
Ulrike Pihls hus, Seminarrom 2BThe Department of Information Science and Media Studies and the I2S research group welcomes you to this seminar with Paolo Rota of University of Trento. The rapid evolution of vision-language models is transforming the landscape of image and video understanding, going beyond traditional classification and localization paradigms. We will explore two recent methodologies that challenge […]