Media City Bergens’ Future Week: Workshop on Disinformation and Fake News
In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there has been a marked increase in the spread of disinformation and propaganda by the Kremlin. The abundance of fabricated narratives has renewed attention the potential that automated fact-checking technologies have in combating false information online. As part of MCB Future Week, MediaFutures is organizing […]
Data Science and AI in excellence research centers in Chile: IMFD, CENIA and I-Health
Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Denis Parra is principal researcher at the excellence research centers CENIA (National Center for Research in Artificial Intelligence in Chile), iHealth, and adjunct researcher at the IMFD (Millennium Institute for Research on Data Fundamentals). Prof. Parra research interests span Recommender Systems, Intelligent User Interfaces, Applications of Machine Learning […]
MediaFutures Seminar: Hidden in Plain Sight: Microcelebrities navigating visibility and surveillance on Twitter with Özlem Demirkol Tønnesen, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bergen
Özlem Demirkol Tønnesen from the University of Bergenwill give a seminar on June 9th. TITLE: Hidden in Plain Sight: Microcelebrities navigating visibility and surveillance on Twitter WHEN: 9 June, 12:00 - 13:00 WHERE: MediaFutures ABSTRACT: On social media, microcelebrities and influencers play various roles and hold immense power as “focusers of attention” (Tufekci, 2013). This project […]
Symposium – Towards a Fairer Future of Education: Algorithmic Inequality and Learning Analytics
Where & When: Scandic Hotel Ørnen in Bergen, Wednesday June 13th. Invitation: SLATE Research Centre and MediaFutures invite you to the symposium "Towards a Fairer Future of Education: Algorithmic Inequality and Learning Analytics"! The emerging applications of Learning Analytics and AI in education that employ student data to improve learning and teaching is gaining worldwide […]
MediaFutures Seminar: Metrics for Measuring Normative Diversity in News Recommendations with Sanne Vrijenhoek from the University of Amsterdam
Sanne Vrijenhoek from the University of Amsterdam will give a seminar on June 16th TITLE: Metrics for Measuring Normative Diversity in News Recommendations WHEN: 16 June, 12:00 - 13:00 ABSTRACT: News recommenders have the potential to fulfill a crucial role in a democratic society, directing news readers towards the information that is most important to them. […]
MediaFutures Seminar: Reaching New Audiences with Generative AI with Lydia Chilton, an Assistant Professor from Columbia University
Lydia Chilton from Columbia University will give a seminar on June 29th TITLE: Reaching New Audiences with Generative AI WHEN: 29 June, 15:00 - 16:00 Presentation: https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Chilton_ReachingNewAudiences_June2023.pdf ABSTRACT: Writing a news article is a significant investment of time, energy, and intellect. For an article to have the impact it deserves, it needs to reach the […]
NordMedia Conference 2023
NordMedia23 will be organized in Bergen, Norway from 16 – 18 August 2023. The theme of the conference is Technological Takeover? Social and Cultural implications – promises and pitfalls. For more information visit: https://nordmedianetwork.org/nordmedia-conference-2023/
Kunstig intelligens – ChatGPT: Hvor står vi – hvor går vi?
Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi Drammensveien 78, Oslo, NorwayThe Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters is hosting a panel debate with MediaFutures researcher Samia Touileb as one of the participants. The title of the panel is Artificial Intelligence - ChatGPT: Where do we stand - where are we going? and will feature introductions by Samia Touileb as well as professor of legal informatics at […]
BehavRec ’23: Recommendations for Behavior Change
ACM RecSys , SingaporeJoin us at the "BehavRec '23: Recommendations for Behavior Change" workshop, a part of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '23) in Singapore from September 18th to 22nd, 2023. This workshop focuses on persuasive and behavior change recommender systems, offering insights into designing recommendations that prompt positive behavior shifts. Explore a range of […]
NORMalize at RecSys ’23
OnlineMediaFutures Key Researcher Alain Starke is co-organizing a workshop on normative design and evaluation of recommender systems during the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys ’23. NORMalize sets out to provide a platform for researchers and practicioners from different domains to discuss challenges related to the normative design and evaluation of recommender systems. In this […]
Liisa Ovaska: From permissive to resistive tactics: How audience members act, make sense and cope with audience-datafied journalism
MediaFutures MCB Store læringsrom, Læringslab 3rd floorWe are pleased to invite to a seminar about Liisa Ovaska's research paper on how audience members respond to audience-datafied journalism. Preliminary findings reveal a spectrum of strategies, ranging from resistance to acceptance, in how users engage with data-driven systems while consuming news. Liisa Ovaska is a doctoral researcher at Tampere University. In her dissertation Ovaska studies […]
Knowledge Café on PhD Teaching Duties
MediaFutures MCB Store læringsrom, Læringslab 3rd floorAs part of our Knowledge Café seminar series, MediaFutures will be organizing a seminar on teaching duties for PhD students at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies. During the meeting you will be introduced to some of the tools available at the university, and that you might want to use during teaching. You […]