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SUMMARY:MediaFutures seminar
DESCRIPTION:Title: Facing disinformation in social media with focus on its social impact \nThe integration of social media into our daily lives has been both transformative and essential\, offering numerous advantages in how we communicate\, share information\, and engage with the world. However\, alongside these benefits comes a growing concern: the widespread dissemination of misinformation. This challenge not only distorts public perception but can also significantly influence critical societal events\, such as elections and public health crises. In this talk\, we will present research from the UGRITAIlab at the University of Granada\, specifically in the field of fake news detection and analysis. Our research spans several key areas\, with a particular emphasis on the social impact of misinformation. Central to this work is our DESINFOSCAN Framework\, which includes a social impact module and a credibility analysis module. \nThe social impact module focuses on analyzing the influence of misinformation by utilizing advanced topic detection and argumentation techniques to examine social media discussions. Meanwhile\, the credibility module uses word embeddings to identify credible individuals and those whose contributions are valuable to the discourse on specific topics across social networks. By addressing these issues\, we aim to offer insights into how misinformation can be mitigated and how trustworthiness in social media interactions can be enhanced. \nThe seminar is digital only. The zoom link can be found below. \nSPEAKER: José A. Díaz-García  \nJ. Ángel Díaz-García\, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science and AI at the University of Granada (UGR). He graduated as a Computer Engineer in 2016\, receiving an award for outstanding academic performance. Subsequently\, he ventured into the professional field as an SQL analyst at Asexor\, gaining professional experience in the private sector. In 2017\, he completed the qualifying master’s degree in Computer Engineering. During this period\, José Ángel began to specialize in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, leading him to pursue the master’s degree in Data Science at UGR\, thereby consolidating his knowledge in AI. During this time\, he made his first scientific contributions at international conferences as part of a research initiation scholarship for master’s students. After completing this second master’s degree\, he participated as a data scientist in international projects at the Universities of Oviedo and Granada. In 2019\, he was awarded an FPU scholarship from the Ministry\, marking the beginning of his doctoral studies in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP)\, which culminated in the defense of his thesis on October 27\, 2023\, with honors in international doctorate and CUM LAUDE. Throughout his research career\, he has contributed to 4 publications (JCRD Q1\, Q2) in the field of NLP and participated in 15 international and 4 national conferences. He has also collaborated on 6 projects\, including NOFACEPS\, of which he is the principal investigator\, and two international projects\, such as COPKIT\, where he contributed with a significant unsupervised sentiment analysis method. José Ángel has completed research stays at the University of Lisbon with Professor Joao Paulo Carvalho and at Imperial College London\, where he worked at the Data Science Institute with J. Amador Diaz-Lopez. As a result of the collaboration with Imperial College\, a contribution was made to an international conference in the field of misinformation in networks. Additionally\, the organization of a special session at a conference was initiated\, and currently\, this relationship continues with two publications under review. \nFinally\, it is worth highlighting the management and leadership skills demonstrated by José Ángel\, which led to the acquisition of a research project at UGR\, where he is the principal investigator\, and which concluded with the publication of the NOFACE credibility analysis system in the journal Expert Systems With Applications (JCR Q1). He was also part of the organizing committee of the FQAS 2023 international conference and the program committee of the COMS2 international conference in India. He has organized special sessions at 3 international conferences\, outreach workshops\, and given interviews on radio and in the press.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:UiB Innovation Festival: From research to change
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the UiB Innovation Festival that will take place on September 20th from 9 to 14:30 at Nygårdsgaten 5. The festival is your opportunity to engage with the broad spectrum of innovation emerging from our university\, discuss how to balance the open science with protecting intellectual property\, and reflect on how UiB can contribute to Vestland’s green transition. The event is a part of the InnovasjonsukenOPP and will be a meeting place for people from academia\, businesses and public sector in the region. \nOne of the program’s highlights is the session on responsible research and innovation by Dr. Anne Blanchard\, Researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities\, Faculty of Humanities: \n“Was Oppenheimer a responsible scientist or not? Was he responsible for the impacts of his research on nuclear fission? In this session\, I will focus on responsible research and innovation (RRI). What does it mean\, to do research in a responsible way (without going as far as playing with weapons of mass destruction)? What do we need to pay attention to\, in our everyday research practices? Everyone welcome!” \n\n\n\n\nRegistration to UiB Innovation Festival 2024 for employees and students\nRegistration to UiB Innovation Festival 2024 for participants outside UiB\n\nWe look forward to welcoming you to a day filled with inspiration\, learning\, and networking. \nProgramme: \n09:00 – 09:30 Festival opening and keynote speech \n“Building social impact at scale: experiments in arts\, humanities and social science commercialisation at the University of Cambridge” \nDr Emma Salgård Cunha\, Senior Associate Commercialisation Director\, Cambridge Enterprise\, University of Cambridge \n09:30 – 10:15 Innovation relay: 8 pitches on different types of innovation at UiB \n10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break and stands \n10:45 – 11:15 Parallel sessions\, first round: \nSession 1 – How to balance publishing and protecting intellectual property (IPR)? \nSession 2 – Student Innovation: resources and tools for success \nSession 3 – Effective use of AI: crash course in prompt writing \n11:15 – 12:15 Lunch and exhibitions \n12:15 – 12:45 Parallel sessions\, second round: \nSession 1 – Do you work at UiB and have an innovative idea? Learn how to proceed and what resources are available to you \nSession 2 – Mini-design sprint – innovation tool for quickly creating and testing new solutions \nSession 3 – Responsible innovation – what is it and how to do it? \n12:45 – 13:15 Coffee break and stands \n13:15 – 13:55 Panel discussion: Innovation for green transition and UiB’s role in the region \n13:55 – 14:30 Award Ceremony for UiB Idé 2024 with project presentations \nAmong the stands\, in addition to inspiring innovation projects\, you can have one-on-one consultations to: \n\nExplore what patents filed in the world have cited your publications\nQuickly scan your research project for innovation potential\nSee how to improve your visibility online\n\nMost of the day will be in English\, whilst the panel discussion and the UiB Ide Award will be in Norwegian.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/uib-innovation-festival-from-research-to-change/
LOCATION:Nygårdsgaten 5\, Nordre Allmenning 3 at Læringsarenaen
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SUMMARY:Training workshop in Oslo: Accessibility in Digital Learning Resources
DESCRIPTION:Join our 2-Day training workshop on Accessibility in Digital Learning Resources! Are you passionate about making digital learning more interactive and accessible? Our upcoming workshop in Oslo\, Norway\, on Monday\, September 16th\, and Tuesday\, September 17th\, is the perfect opportunity for you! \nFocus Areas:– Tools for enhancing interactivity and accessibility in linear media experiences.– Balancing AI personalization with privacy in accessible media. \nInteractive Learning:– Learn practical skills and hands-on techniques to apply WCAG/WAD in real-life scenarios.– Engage in group work facilitated by leading experts and researchers. \nWho Should Attend:– COST LEAD-ME Network Members: Most participants will be from our network\, but new members are welcome!– PhD Students and Researchers: Especially those from psychology\, computer science\, and related fields.– Accessibility Experts and Practitioners: Gain insights from experienced professionals in the field. \nWhy Attend?– Hands-On Experience: Move beyond theory and gain practical knowledge you can apply immediately.– Expert Guidance: Work directly with top facilitators who are leaders in accessibility and interactivity. \nThe attendance will be restricted to 40 students in total (in-person and online). We can support up to 15 students traveling to Oslo\, Norway (MSc\, PhD students\, and young researchers eligible for COST funding); this is funded by the LEAD-ME COST Action CA19142. The School also acceptsapplications from candidates with their own financial sources. All participants must fill out an application form\, which includes a short CV and motivation letter. The Scientific Committee will classify students according to COST rules\, including balancing career stage\, gender\, and countriesof work. \nApplication Deadline: August 20 \n			\n				CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				 \nAll costs will be reimbursed after the event according to COST Reimbursement Rules. \nReimbursement: \nStudents will have to sign the attendance for each day of the School\, according to the COST regulations. Eligible trainees will be reimbursed by the LEAD-ME CA19142 COST Project. To be reimbursed\, students should submit travel tickets reimbursement claims and carry out theirobligations which will be specified by the COST rules.  \nThis seminar is organised and sponsored by SFI MediaFutures\, LEAD-ME\, Schibsted\, NORCE and TV2 School. \nVenues:Day 1\, 16th Sept\, will take place at Egmont in Nydalsveien 12A (stop: Nydalen):Day 2\, 17th Sept\, will take place at Schibsted in Akersgata 55 (stop: Stortinget or Oslo S):Early-bird gathering\, 15th Sept: For those who arrive on Sunday evening\, we suggest meeting up ata place offering both food and/or drinks. This place will be announced later. \n \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Training workshop day-by-day: \nDay 1 will focus on navigation and perception\, including an introduction session\, followed by user demonstrations. Four users will demonstrate how they navigate and perceive digital learning resources\, representing different age groups. There will be smaller groups of five to seven PhDstudents at each demonstration “station”\, based on using participants from Digjobb.no. After lunch\,following WCAG principles\, the focus will be on how to navigate and perceive a digital learning resource. Participants will work in a break-out group (10-14). There will be focus on eye-gazenavigation\, one-button\, two-button\, braille\, deaf. Complementary PhD-specializations will work together in each break-out group. Participants will learn how to interpret WCAG/WAD in relation to eye-gaze navigation\, one-button\, two-button\, braille\, deaf. There will be one facilitator per break-out group. \nDay 2 will focus on understanding. It will start with making WCAG principle understandable\, in relation to content and to accessibility challenges such as dyslexia\, symbol users\, cognitive challenges. Thereafter\, four users will demonstrate how they use learning resources\, representingdifferent age groups. Again\, there will be five to seven PhD students on each demonstration “station” Using the Digjobb.no as partner. After lunch\, there will be navigation break-out group 1 (10-14) How to interpret WCAG/WAD in relation to dyslexia\, symbol users\, cognitive challenges. DifferentPhD-specializations in every group. There will be none navigation break-out group 2 (10-14 persons). How to interpret WCAG/WAD in relation to dyslexia\, symbol users\, cognitive challenges. There will be different PhD-specializations in every group. \n  \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n					Day 1\, 16. SepDay 2\, 17. Sep\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Day 1\, 16. Sep 09.00–09.30 Introduction 09.30–10.15 Experts 10.30–11.30 User-café 11.30–12.30 Lunch 12.30–13.30 Navigat: how to 13.45–15.00 Navigat: how to cont. 15.00–16.00 Pitching with experts 16.00–17.00 Roof-top drinks if sunny 19.00–22.00 Social eve (venue tbd) \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				09.00–09.30 Introduction09.30–10.15 Experts10.30–11.30 User-café11.30–12.30 Lunch12.30–13.30 Navigat: break-out13.45–15.00 Navigat: break-out cont.15.00–16.00 Pitching with jury16.00–17.00 Wrap-up and mingling \n			\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				More info on the experts\, accomodation and program can be found in the pdf ADLM_Brochure_final_web
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/training-workshop-in-oslo-accessibility-in-digital-learning-resources/
LOCATION:oslo
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Personalisation Day
DESCRIPTION:We invite all researchers and practitioners in the Nordics to the second Nordic Personalisation day in Wallenberg Conference Center\, Gothenburg. We aim on two days full of talks and discussions on ethics\, responsibility in personalisation and recommender systems. There will also be plenty of time to meet peers both from industry and research and exchange ideas during the conference during coffee breaks\, lunch and after-workshop drinks.  \nThe event starts after lunch on the 16th and ends on the 17th at lunch time.  We know there are many innovative academic and industrial labs and hope this workshop can be a step toward creating a Nordic community on this highly relevant topic. \nAdmittance is free of charge\, but registration is required. Please follow the link below to find out more. \nThe event is funded by Meltzer\, SFI MediaFutures and Swedish funding agencies. 
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/personalisation-day/
LOCATION:Wallenberg Conference Center\,  Gothenburg\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240906T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240906T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T011616
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SUMMARY:Europe’s Digital Agenda: Is the AI Act the Final Act? In Search of Common Principles
DESCRIPTION:Over the past five years the European Union legislature has passed a flurry of ambitious directives and regulations dealing with various aspects of Europe’s digital economy: the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive (2019)\, the Open Data Directive (2019)\, the Data Governance Act (2022)\, the Digital Services Act (2022)\, the Digital Market Act (2022)\, the Data Act (2023) and the AI Act (2024). \nWhile these legal instruments touch upon different legal domains\, ranging from intellectual property law\, freedom of government information and data protection to media regulation\, competition law\, and consumer protection\, there is considerable overlap – and increasing confusion about their reach and scope\, the new governance structures they establish\, and their underlying policies. \nIt introduces a ban on high-risk AI technologies\, establishes far reaching transparency measures\, demands human oversight\, prohibits misleading uses of AI\, creates new supervisory authorities\, and enhances protection of human creators against being “trained” by LLM’s. \nThis international conference – the first of its kind – searches for common principles and doctrines in Europe’s Digital Agenda\, and queries what will be the EU’s next step – if any – in its regulatory adventure in the digital field. It will also compare Europe’s Digital Agenda to developments in the United States and look at the impact of the new European rules on enterprises in the ICT sector in Europe\, particularly start-ups. \nProgramme\n8.30-9.00       Registration and coffee \n9.00-9.15       Opening (Dean Karl Harlad Søvig) \n9.15-9.45       Introduction: Martin Husovec\, LSE Law School \nSession 1       Fostering the European Data Economy\n9.45-10.05      Heather Broomfield\, University of Oslo\, Are We There Yet? The Legal Evolution of Public Sector Data Sharing \n10.05-10.25    Lucie Antoine\, LMU University\, Munich\, The Data Act: Fair access to data and new possibilities for data-driven innovation – or everything more difficult than before? \n10.25-10.40    COFFEE BREAK \n10.40-11.00    Bernt Hugenholtz\, University of Amsterdam\, Text and Data Mining in the DSM-directive \n11.00-11.45    Panel discussion and Q&A \n11.45-12.45    LUNCH BREAK \nSession 2        Platform regulation\n12.45-13.05    Torger Kielland\, University of Bergen\, Article 17 CDSM: Platform liability for copyrighted content – too much or not enough? \n13.05-13.25    Benjamin Raue\, University of Trier\, The Digital Services Act: Liability exemptions in exchange for diligence obligations and public oversight \n13.25-13.45   Alexander Iken\, European Commission\, Digital Markets Act \n13.45-14.30    Panel discussion and Q&A \n14.30-14.45    COFFEE BREAK \nSession 3        Regulating AI\n14.45-15.05    Alexander Peukert\, Goethe University Frankfurt\, The Meta-Regulation of AI through the AI Act \n15.05- 15.25   Thomas Vinje\, University of Bergen\, AI and competition law \n15.25-16.00    Pamela Samuelson\, UC Berkeley\, An American Perspective on AI Regulation \n16.00-17.00    Panel discussion and Q&A \n17.00              Ending \n  \nOrganizing committee\nProfessor Torger Kielland\, University of Bergen \nEmeritus Professor Bernt Hugenholtz\, University of Amsterdam \nAssistant Professor Thomas Vinje\, University of Bergen \nAssociate Professor Liliia Oprysk\, University of Bergen
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/europes-digital-agenda-is-the-ai-act-the-final-act-in-search-of-common-principles/
LOCATION:Bergen Global\, Jekteviksbakken 31\, 5006 Bergen AND Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240903T140000
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SUMMARY:Advancing Image and Video Understanding Beyond Traditional Paradigms: Vocabulary-Free Classification and Zero-Shot Temporal Localization
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Information Science and Media Studies and the I2S research group welcomes you to this seminar with Paolo Rota of University of Trento. \nThe 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 the conventional reliance on predefined vocabularies and training data. The first part of the talk introduces the concept of Vocabulary-Free Image Classification (VIC)\, a novel approach that assigns classes to images without the constraints of a fixed vocabulary. We will delve into the challenges of operating within an unconstrained semantic space containing millions of concepts and present Category Search from External Databases (CaSED)\, a training-free method that leverages external vision-language databases for efficient and accurate classification. In the second part\, we will shift focus to Test-Time Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization (ZS-TAL)\, which tackles the problem of identifying and locating unseen actions in untrimmed videos without the need for annotated training data. We will introduce the Test-Time adaptation for Temporal Action Localization (T3AL) approach\, which adapts a pre-trained Vision and Language Model (VLM) to perform action localization in a self-supervised manner\, significantly improving generalization across diverse video domains. Finally we will show how LLMs can be used as a sort of orchestrator to solve research problems autonomously\, through visual programming. \nPaolo is an assistant professor at the Center for Mind and Brain (CIMeC) at the University of Trento. He received his Ph.D. from the same university and has worked as a postdoctoral Marie Curie fellow at TU Wien and as a postdoc at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa. He also worked as an ML researcher at the ProM Facility in Rovereto. He has been an assistant professor at the University of Trento since 2019 and started his tenure track in 2022. His research interests are focused on image and video classification using Vision and Language.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/advancing-image-and-video-understanding-beyond-traditional-paradigms-vocabulary-free-classification-and-zero-shot-temporal-localization/
LOCATION:Ulrike Pihls hus\, Seminarrom 2B
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240628T120000
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SUMMARY:AI Solutions for Local Journalism Challenges: A Design Thinking Approach and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:WP3 invites to a digital seminar on AI for local journalism. Speaker is the Postdoctoral Researcher Dr Reshmi G. Pillai from Vrije University Amsterdam. \nJournalism 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 opportunities and equally profound challenges to news organizations worldwide. This transition poses a particular concern to regional and local media organizations\, as they are often at increased risk of being at the disadvantaged end of the technological knowledge and adoption. Local journalism\, however\, remains a vital component of democratic societies\, by voicing the issues and concerns from local communities\, and contextualizing global/national news stories\, thus engaging news audience better with collective discourses. \nOur research investigates\, in collaboration with a regional broadcaster in the Netherlands\, how AI can best enhance journalistic processes\, while maintaining the agency with the journalists. We conducted design thinking sprints with the journalists of the broadcaster\, starting by identifying the challenges within the news-making process\, and moving towards clearly defined problem statements and solution approaches. The talk also presents our further research motivated by these findings from the design thinking sprints. We outline a prototype to build a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system from information sources such as past news reports\, to provide background information for an incoming news story. Also\, addressing the problem of news content and headline optimization\, we analyse the textual features\, on a dataset of ~500k tweets\, associated with audience engagement\, for national and regional news media within the Netherlands\, as pointers for generating engaging content. \nThis research is part of the consortium project ‘Towards Responsible AI for Local Journalism’ (link here) with researchers from Vrije University Amsterdam\, University of Amsterdam\, University of Groningen (the Netherlands)\, LMU Munich (Germany)\, and University of Stavanger (Norway). \nSpeaker: Dr Reshmi G. Pillai \nMs. Pillai focuses on the adoption and implementation of artificial intelligence techniques\, specifically natural language processing in the context of local journalism. Her research interests are in analyzing text using natural language processing methods for a better understanding of behaviors and states of individuals and the society. Previously\, she was a Lecturer at the Informatics Institute\, University of Amsterdam\, assisting in the Master’s program in Information Studies (Data Science track). She holds a PhD from the University of Wolverhampton for her thesis on the expressions of psychological stress in tweets. \n\nYou can join the meeting via zoom here.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/ai-solutions-for-local-journalism-challenges-a-design-thinking-approach-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Events,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis
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SUMMARY:Addressing the Next-Poster Problem: A Hybrid Recommender System for Streaming Platforms
DESCRIPTION:09:30 Pre-discussion (attendants: Mehdi Elahi\, Benjamin Kille)  \n10:00 start explanation followed by thesis presentation (attendants: all) \nAround 10:40 Interrogation (attendants: Alvsvåg\, Mehdi Elahi\, Benjamin Kille) \nAround 11:15 Consultation between censors (attendants: Mehdi Elahi\, Benjamin Kille) \nAround 11:35: Results (attendants: all) \nTitle: Addressing the Next-Poster Problem: A Hybrid Recommender System for Streaming Platforms \nAbstract: \nRecommendation strategies in the Movie domain is varied\, but has been shown to aid users in finding content they like. On video streaming-platforms such as TV 2 Play\, the user is exposed to several different arenas where they can find something they would like to watch\, be that the landing-page of the streaming site\, or a suggestion for something more to watch after they concluded a movie or series. These are all areas where Recommender strategies can recommend something based on either the preferences of the user\, or in the case of the concluded movie or series\, something more to watch based on what they just watched. This latter aspects\, being what I refer to as the next-poster problem in this thesis\, is not a largely explored area of research\, where previous actors have simply utilized the already established Collaborative Filtering (CF) model concerned with the user’s preferences without considering what the user just watched. Here I show that a solution to the next-poster problem is to combine the CF model with a Sequence Aware approach based on Markov Chains\, finding an increase in implied user satisfaction over the baseline CF approach. Through an online evaluation on the streaming platform TV 2 Play\, I show that using a Hybrid approach to solve the next-poster problem rather than a traditional CF model leads to a lessening in user engagement such as CTR\, but an increase in the clicks resulting in a user actually watching the content\, this being our implied user satisfaction. Further as a result of this online evaluation\, I am able to show that its possible to find the best configuration for a Hybrid model based on Sequence Aware and CF approaches deployed in a real life scenario\, through offline evaluation. The results allows me to showcase the importance of considering Sequence of items when recommending for the next-poster problem\, and to show that an offline evaluation can imply results in a real world scenario\, when considering the Movie domain. Although an improvement\, this thesis also shows that there are many more avenues to consider for the next-poster problem.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/snorre-alsvags-master-thesis-defense/
LOCATION:Møterom 1 MCB
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240606T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240606T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T011616
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SUMMARY:Transparency\, Privacy\, and Fairness in Recommender Systems
DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures 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). \nRecommender systems have become a pervasive part of our daily online experience by analyzing past usage behavior to suggest potential relevant content\, e.g.\, music\, movies\, or books. Today\, recommender systems are one of the most widely used applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Therefore\, regulations and requirements for trustworthy artificial intelligence\, for example\, the European AI Act\, which includes notions such as transparency\, privacy\, and fairness are also highly relevant for the design\, development\, evaluation\, and deployment of recommender systems in practice. \nThis talk elaborates on aspects related to these three notions in the light of recommender systems\, namely: (i) transparency and cognitive models\, (ii) privacy and limited preference information\, and (iii) fairness and popularity bias in recommender systems. Specifically\, with respect to aspect (i)\, I highlight the usefulness of incorporating psychological theories for a transparent design process of recommender systems. Additionally\, I show that cognitive models can further contribute to transparency aspects by illustrating how the models’ components have contributed to generate the recommendation lists. In aspect (ii)\, I study and address the trade-off between accuracy and privacy in differentially-private recommendations. \nDominic Kowald presents a novel recommendation approach for collaborative filtering based on an efficient neighborhood reuse concept\, which reduces the number of users that need to be protected with differential privacy. Furthermore\, he outlines the related issue of limited availability of user preference information\, e.g.\, click data\, in the settings of session-based recommendations\, by using variational autoencoders. With respect to aspect (iii)\, he discusses popularity bias in collaborative filtering-based recommender systems and shows that the recommendation frequency of an item is positively correlated with this item’s popularity. This also leads to the unfair treatment of users with little interest in popular content\, since these users receive worse recommendation accuracy results than users with high interest in popular content. Besides\, Kowald presents results of an online study on popularity bias mitigation in the field of news article recommendations. He closes the talk by illustrating the trade-off between privacy and popularity bias in recommender systems and by outlining future research possibilities in this direction. \nAfter the talk\, Kowald will present the Know-Center\, and some of their success stories and lessons learned of applied research projects with industry partners.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/transparency-privacy-and-fairness-in-recommender-systems/
LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008
CATEGORIES:Events,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240605T083000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240605T173000
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
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SUMMARY:AI Regulation and Governance: A Cross-Jurisdictional Approach
DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures associate professor Samie Touileb is giving a keynote speech on AI technology at this conference. \nWith 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 intellectual property and tort law to safety legislation. The conference contributes to shaping the discourse on the governance of artificial intelligence in Europe and beyond. \nPreliminary Programme\n08:30: Registration and Welcome Coffee \nOpening Session \n09:00: Opening Remarks (Tobias Mahler) \n09:10: Key Note: AI Technology (Samia Touileb)\n09:45: Break \nArtificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property \n(Chair: Ole-Andreas Rognstad) \n09:55: Copyright Protection of AI-Generated Outputs (Tito Rendas) \n10:30: AI and Copyright (Guro Bøe Linnet) \n11:05 Break \nDigital Constitutionalism and the AI Goveranance Discourse \n(Chair: Ingunn Ikdahl TBC) \n11:20: AI and Digital Constitutionalism (Giovanni de Gregorio) \n11:55: Rhetoric and Reality in AI Policy and Practice (Heather Broomfield) \n12:30: Lunch Break \nAI and Civil Liability \n(Chair: Johannes Hygen Meyer) \n13:30: The EU’s Proposed AI Liability Directive (Henrique Sousa Antunes) \n14:05: AI Liability and Norwegian Tort Law (Anne Marie Frøseth) \n14.40 Break \nThe EU AI Act and its Alternatives \n(Chair: Samson Esayas) \n15:00: Lessons Learned from the Drafting of the AI Act (Vera Lucia Raposo) \n15:35: Decent Law: Envisioning a Decentralized\, AI-optimized Legal Regime (Samuel Becher) \n16:10: Break \nConcluding Session \n(Chair Rebecca Schmidt) \n16:25: AI Risk in an International Context (Tobias Mahler) \n17:00 Concluding Discussion \n17:25 Closing Remarks (Henrique Sousa Antunes) \n17:30 Reception \n  \nRegistration closed\nAttendance is gratis but the conference is completely booked. You can sign up for a growing waiting list until May 26th 2024 via this online form. Stay tuned for information about web streaming! \nThe conference is organised by the UiO’s Research Group on Law and Technology and held under the aegis of the research project ‘Vulnerability in the Robot Society’ (VIROS). The VIROS project is run by the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL) in collaboration with the Robots and Intelligent Systems (ROBIN) group at the Department of Informatics\, University of Oslo. It is funded by the Research Council of Norway.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/ai-regulation-and-governance-a-cross-jurisdictional-approach/
LOCATION:Domus Bibliotheca\, Karl Johans gate 47\, 0162\, Oslo
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240604T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240604T112000
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SUMMARY:One size fits one - accessibility through preferences
DESCRIPTION:Yngvar 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.\n\n \nRemote participants are welcome: \nVideo call link: https://meet.google.com/mdr-wyvp-ccm \nYngvar Nordberg\, TV 2 Skole AS and WP4\, title: \nOne size fits one – accessibility through preferences \n\nIn 1992\, all state-run special schools were closed with the exception of schools for sign language students. The ideology was that special education should take place in a classroom setting together with peers at the local school. In the compulsory primary school\, achieving a ‘school for all’\, or one that is fully inclusive\, is an important policy goal and part of the official aims behind the system of education for all children in Norway. TV 2 Schools educational web-service – elevkanalen.no – has for more than 10 years developed an API that governs a very successful preference-dashboard. Teacher set preferences on his/her pupils. Eye-gaze navigation\, one-button navigation\, two-button navigation etc.; symbol-support; background colors\, font color – It is a user-centric design backed up by national activities in Standards Norway Committee 607 and ongoing work in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 36/WG 7 – metadata for individualized accessibility. To achieve true accessibility – AI is obviously the road ahead. Machine learning that automatically detects the users needs is already a component in our one fits one approach\, but we need more. This goes for navigation – AI-driven eye-gaze calibration AI-driven tasks like alt-text to pictures\, and captions to film for the blind; text-levels etc. We believe our activities already has a proven potential outside our own organisation in Norway and would love to present them in a Lead-Me – context. \nMore on COST LEAD-ME: \n\nLEAD-ME aims to help European stakeholders in the field of Media Accessibility to meet legal milestones requested by European legislation. Researchers\, engineers and scholars as well as businesses and policy makers will be empowered by LEAD-ME with a common and unique platform which will collect\, create\, and disseminate innovative technologies and solutions\, best practices and guidelines.\nhttps://lead-me-cost.eu/
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/one-size-fits-one-accessibility-through-preferences/
LOCATION:Remote
CATEGORIES:Events,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240531T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240531T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
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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:20240531T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240531T150000
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SUMMARY:Humaniora meets Artifical Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:UHR-Humaniora and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bergen invite to a conference on artificial intelligence and the humanities on May 31st. \nThe event will be in Norwegian.\nArtificial intelligence (AI) has opened up new possibilities for how we communicate\, create art\, and participate in democracy. However\, while the development of AI is often led by quantitative disciplines\, there is a growing need for insights from the humanities. The deep understanding of texts and cultural expressions provided by the humanities is crucial for guiding the development of AI in ways that both respect and reflect human experience and cultural diversity. \nThe goal of the conference is to emphasize the important role of the humanities in the development and understanding of AI. Therefore\, we aim to create a forum where humanities researchers can share knowledge\, explore new ideas and methods\, and build networks that can strengthen the humanities’ contribution to AI research. The conference will thus shed light on the ethical\, cultural\, and societal implications of AI\, and how the humanities contribute and can contribute to this exploration. \nThe program is still under development and will be updated and adjusted in spring 2024. \nProgram\nKonferansier: journalist og tidligere kultur- og debattredaktør i Bergens Tidende\, Hilde Sandvik. \n09:00 Velkommen \nPinar Heggernes\, prorektor ved Universitetet i Bergen\, åpner konferansen sammen med Frode Helland\, dekan ved Det humanistiske fakultet ved UiO og leder for UHR-Humaniora\, og Camilla Brautaset\, dekan ved Det humanistiske fakultet ved UiB. \nHvorfor trenger KI humaniora?  \nHva er språkmodeller egentlig?  \nSamia Touileb er førsteamanuensis i språkteknologi og forsker hovedsakelig på etiske og sosiale utfordringer ved språkteknologiske modeller.  I dette foredraget viser hun hvordan språkmodeller trenes\, hva slags data de er bygget på\, og hvordan de stadig blir mer avanserte. Touileb viser eksempler på hva språkmodeller kan brukes til\, i tilleg til å dele noen eksempler som illustrerer mulige utfordringer og problemstillinger ved bruk av språkmodeller. \nKan kunstig intelligens forstå språk?\nChatGPT og andre store språkmodeller viser imponerende resultater i en rekke oppgaver\, som for eksempel spørsmålsbesvarelse\, oversettelse og oppsummering. Selv oppgaver som å skrive dikt eller lage korte historier blir nå utført av språkmodeller. Men hvordan forstår egentlig en språkmodell innholdet i en tekst?  Pierre Lison er sjefsforsker ved Norsk Regnesentral hvor han jobber med maskinlæring og språkteknologi. Han inviterer oss med til en utforsking av hva som skiller en språkmodell fra menneskelig språkforståelse. \nEr kunstig intelligens bra for samisk?\nHva kan store språkmodeller lære om språk med begrenset tekstmateriale\, og hvordan påvirkes resultatene når modellene forsøker å kompensere for mangel på tekst ved å inkludere alle språk i samme analyse? Hilde Sandvik møter Trond Trosterud til samtale om Hvordan kunstig intelligens vil påvirke små språk som samisk.  Trond Trosterud er professor i samisk språkteknologi og leder av Giellatekno\, Senter for samisk språkteknologi ved Universitetet i Tromsø. \n10:00 Pause  \n10:30 Keynote: \nThe AI Mirror: Reclaiming our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking\nShannon Vallor \, professor ved Edinburgh Futures Institute\, University of Edinburgh. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies increasingly claim to be able to tell us who we are\, what we want\, what we can do\, and where we will go. Yet these predictions reflect only the choices we have already made\, not those still open to us. In this talk\, Professor Vallor acknowledges the power and utility of these new algorithmic mirrors\, while exposing the deception in their promise to define humanity and guide our shared futures. \n11:30 Lunsj  \nKunst\, medier og KI \n12:30 KI-forestillinger og humanioras sentrale rolle: Mellom hype\, dystopi og hverdagsliv\nTaina Bucher\, professor og forskningsleder ved Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon ved Universitetet i Oslo. I dette innlegget tar utgangsounkt i  “HumAIn: Reimagining AI” som er et nytt møtested for tverrfaglig forskning og utdanning innen humanistiske perspektiver på KI. Hubben utforsker både eksisterende historier og narrativ omkring KI\, i tillegg til å ha et uttalt mål om å utvikle nye forestillinger og fortellinger omkring hva KI kan og bør være. \nAI as Artistic Intelligence\nDavid Jhave Johnston is a digital-poet writing in emergent domains: A.I.\, 3D\, VR\, and code. Author-programmer of the multimedia human + A.I. writing art-project ReRites (Anteism Books\, 2019)\, the theoretical-history Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry’s Ontological Implications (MIT Press\, 2016)\, and many online multimedia literary explorations at www.glia.ca. He is currently employed as an Ai-narrative researcher at the UiB Centre for Digital Narrative from August 2023-26 on a team investigating Extending Digital Narrative. He will show and discuss a couple examples of #genAI as “artistic intelligence”\, using AI to simulate and stimulate insights into questions of identity.  \nAIwriting: Creative Practice as a Critical Method for Investigating Large Language Models\nIn this talk Scott Rettberg explores AI chatbots and text-to-image generation systems as writing environments\, and in turn considers how the production of sustained creative works in these environments can serve as critical digital humanities method that reveals the structure\, biases\, operations and effects of the models themselves. It considers the importance and function of human writing\, or “cyborg authorship” within these computational environments\, and their potentialities for new genres of dialogic digital narrative. Scott Rettberg is the Director of the Center for Digital Narrative and a professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. \n13:30 Pause  \n14:00 Shaking the black box: Creative approaches to generative models \nIn this talk Gabriele de Seta showcases some creative approaches to generative models\, which use machine learning to synthesize various kinds of content such as text\, images\, videos or sounds. Inspired by Malte Ziewitz’s idea of “shaking the black box”\, he proposes to a more critical and reflexive interaction with these new computational actors. Gabriele de Seta is\, technically\, a sociologist. He holds a PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. De Seta was part of the ERC-funded project “Machine Vision in Everyday Life” at the University of Bergen and is currently leading the ALGOFOLK TMS-funded project at the University of Bergen  \nAvsluttende diskusjon\nHilde Sandvik inviterer til oppsummering og paneldiskusjon med:    \nShannon Vallor\, professor at Edinburgh Futures Institute\, University of Edinburgh\nPinar Heggernes\, prorektor og leder for styringsgruppe UiB AI\nTaina Bucher\, professor og forskningsleder ved Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon ved Universitetet i Oslo\nSamia Touileb\, Samia Touileb\,  Førsteamanuensis i språkteknologi ved Universitetet i Bergen\nScott Rettberg\, Professor and Director for Center for Digtial Narrativ ved Universitetet I Bergen \nKonferansen avsluttes klokken 15:00 \nProgramkomite for konferansen:  professor Jill Walker Rettberg (UiB)\, professor Petter Bae Brandtzæg (UiO) og professor\, prodekan Aurora Hoel (NTNU) og professor Gillian C. Ramchand (UiT). 
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/humaniora-meet-artifical-intelligence/
LOCATION:Universitetet i Bergen\, Storsalen\, Nygårdsgaten 5
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240530T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240531T170000
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SUMMARY:International Workshop: “AI & Political Conflict”
DESCRIPTION:The 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. \nWe are happy to invite to our second international workshop “AI & Political Conflict”\, a two-day\, hybrid event scheduled for 30th May (Thursday) and 31st May (Friday) 2024\, from 9:00 to 17:00 (CET)\, and taking place at MediaFutures Research Centre as well as the Philosophy Department at UiB. \nOur goal is to bring together prominent scholars from different disciplines to discuss the impact of AI-based platforms\, and their underlying technological\, normative\, and economic principles\, on political discourse\, deep disagreement\, and conflict. \nThe event will draw on the Boston-Bergen Forum on Digital Futures—an international research network among the ‘Culture\, Society & Politics’ and the ‘Practical Philosophy’ research groups at UiB’s Philosophy Department\, SFI MediaFutures Research Centre Bergen\, the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston\, and the MIT Program Human Rights and Technology. \nConfirmed speakers for the event include \n\nKeynote by Natali Helberger (Amsterdam)\nGloria Origgi (CNRS Paris)\nAnna Maria Lorusso (Bologna)\nJoão Vieira Magalhães (Groningen)\nAnat Biletzki (Quinnipiac)\nLeif Hemming Pedersen (Roskilde).\nCarl Öhman (Uppsala)\nEugenia Stamboliev (Vienna)\nMark Thomas Young (UiB)\nAlec Stubbs (UMass Boston)\nMaria Brincker (UMass Boston)\nFilipe Campello (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)\nJacob Burley (UMass Boston & Harvard)\n\nTo join digitally\, please open the following zoom link. \n  \n			\n				Download the abstracts\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				First Workshop Day\, Thu.\, May 30th / Media City\, 3rd Floor / SUJO Undervisningsrom\n				09.00 am.: Welcome Notes \nSection I: Keynote \n09.15 am.: Natali Helberger (Amsterdam\, online): “ChatGPT: What is the Impact of LLMs on our Democracy?” \n09.45 am.: Q&A \nSection II: Algorithmic Injustice \n10.15 am.: Jacob Burley (UMass Boston & Harvard): “Algorithmic Agency!?” \n10:45 am.: Carl Öhman (Uppsala\, online): “Gods of Data: Language Models as the personified Authority of the Past” \n11.15 am.: Q&A \n12.00 am.: Lunch break \nSection II: Algorithmic Recognition \n13.15 pm.: Leif Hemming Pedersen (Roskilde): “Recognition Struggles in the (In)visibilization Society” \n13.45 pm.: João Vieira Magalhães (Groningen\, online): “The End of Recognition Theory?” \n14.15 pm.: Q&A \n15.00 pm.: Coffee break \nSection III: Political Technologies \n15.15 pm.: Mark Thomas Young (UiB) “What’s Missing from AI Ethics: Economics\, Politics and Power” \n15.45 pm.: Eugenia Stamboliev (Vienna\, online): “Trustworthy AI as a Politicized Conflict” \n16:15 pm.: Q&A \n17.00 pm.: End \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Second Workshop Day\, Fri.\, May 31st / Media City\, 3rd Floor / SUJO Undervisningsrom\n				09.45 am.: Welcome Note \nSection I: Algorithmic Epistemology \n10:00 am.: Gloria Origgi (CNRS Paris) “How Algorithms Deconstruct Collective Hermeneutical Resources” \n10:30 am.: Anna Maria Lorusso (Bologna) “Facts\, Fictions\, Gossips and other Truth Claims” \n11.15 am.: Q&A \n12.00 am.: Lunch break \nSection II: Activism and Philosophy in the Age of AI \n13.15 pm.: Maria Brincker (UMass Boston): “Responsible Agency and the Nature of Surveillance Effects” \n13.45 pm.: Anat Biletzki (Quinnipiac) “Israel 2023: A Tale of Two Conflicts” \n14.15 pm.: Q&A \n15.00 pm.: Coffee break \nSection III: Artificial Relations \n15.15 pm.: Filipe Campello (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco\, online): “Artificial Affects: Making AI a tool for Social Freedom” \n15.45 pm.: Alec Stubbs (UMass Boston\, online): “AI Friendship: On the Uncontrollability of the Other”
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/international-workshop-ai-political-conflict/
LOCATION:Media Futures at Media City Bergen\, 3rd Floor\, SUJO Undervisningsrom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240529T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240530T170000
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SUMMARY:Ethical considerations regarding the use of AI
DESCRIPTION:Western 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 professional updates! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor Samia Touileb from the University of Bergen will shed light on ethical considerations regarding the use of AI. What challenges may arise from the use of tools like ChatGPT and OpenAI in the development of a film idea\, contracts\, or a script? And will it hinder artistic creativity if one must consider these ethical issues? \nSamia Touileb is an associate professor in language technology at the Department of Information and Media Studies and holds a master’s degree in artificial intelligence and a doctorate in language technology. She has previously been a researcher at MediaFutures – UiB and a postdoctoral fellow at the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. \nHer research interests include fairness and justice in language technology models\, information extraction\, automatic summarization generation\, and the application of language technology and machine learning methods in social science research.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/ethical-considerations-regarding-the-use-of-ai/
LOCATION:Kode Permanenten\, Nordahl Bruns gate 9\, Bergen
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240523T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240523T094500
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
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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:20240503T121500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240503T153000
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
CREATED:20240502T121111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240502T121111Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar on EU elections and how to prevent interference
DESCRIPTION:The EU elections\, Europe Day\, Victory Day and Eurovision are approaching – and so are the opportunities for spreading false information and fomenting polarization. That’s why Faktabari\, in cooperation with its NORDIS partners\, is organizing a free webinar for journalists on the EU elections and election interference on May 3. \nThe webinar will be held on International Press Freedom Day from 12:15 to 15:30. The webinar to be held on May 3 has an interesting coverage of both domestic and Nordic experts. All Finnish journalists and journalist students who want to update their knowledge about EU elections\, disinformation and fact-checking tools are welcome to the lines. \nAlso MediaFutures Ph.D candidate Sohail Khan is present and will present his research on deep fake detection as well as NORDIS.2\, a project he works on together with UiB-infomedia associate professor Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen. \nBetween 2022 and 2023\, the Norwegian fact-checking organization played a crucial role in providing guidance to MediaFutures’ PhD candidate\, Sohail Ahmed Khan\, as he developed two prototypes: an image classifier and a language detector. Both tools have earned great acclaim among fact checkers and journalists\, including those operating in war-torn Ukraine. One of the tools Sohail will showcase at the webinar is the tank classifier. \nThe event is hosted and held mainly in Finnish. Sohail Ahmed Khan will speak in English. \nProgram:\n12.15–12.30\nOpening Words\nPipsa Havula & Joonas Pörsti/ Faktabaari \n12.30–13.00\nWhat kind of disinformation narratives circulate about the EU? What can we learn from the Eurovision Song Contest?\nAndreas Önnerfors/ Director of Fact-Checking Program at Sweden’s Fojo Institute \n13.00–13.30\nWhat is important for journalists to know before the EU elections?\nNiina Saloranta/ Press Officer at the European Parliament’s Finland Office. Saloranta provides an overview of the EU institutions\, how decision-making works\, what happens before and after the elections\, and gives examples of journalists’ sources of information. \n13.30–13.50\nHow to find EU news.\nHannele Muilu/ Yle’s Brussels Correspondent \n13.50–14.00\nBreak \n14.00–14.15\nWhat is EFCSN? How is the European fact-checking network preparing for the elections?\nThomas Hedin/ Managing Editor at Tjekdet and Board Member of EFCSN \n14.15–14:35\nAI tools for journalists.\nSohail Ahmed Khan/ PhD Candidate at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies\, University of Bergen. The University of Bergen/MediaFutures has developed AI tools in collaboration with the Norwegian fact-checking organization Faktisk to assist journalists. Sohail Ahmed Khan presents them. \n14.35–14:55\nInsights into the Digivaalivahti project by Faktabaari and CheckFirst and their findings so far.\nPipsa Havula & Guillaume Kuster \n14:55–15:30\nSummary of the most important fact-checking tools currently available\nKatja Lehtisaari\, University Lecturer in Journalism at Tampere University\, discusses fact-checking courses for journalism students and future collaboration within the NORDIS project framework.\nFuture plans \nThe event concludes at 15:30. \nTo register for the webinar\, please follow the link.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/webinar-on-eu-elections-and-how-to-prevent-interference/
LOCATION:digital
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240503T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240503T123000
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
CREATED:20240425T090917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T090917Z
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SUMMARY:Master Student Demonstration
DESCRIPTION:UiBs media network Teklab is organising the first ever Master Student Demo at the program for media and interaction design (MIX). The event will take place in the Atrium in Media City Bergen from 10.00 to 12.30 on Friday May 3rd. \nThis is an event in the newly established “Innovation Days” at the MIX program. This time around our master students will present their value propositions and minimum viable prototypes. The audience will give them input and help them to learn as much as possible about the potential for value creation in their projects. The event is free for all\, but you have to register. The deadline for lunch registration is Thursday May 2nd at 12.00. Please register here and you will get a free lunch. \nThe “Innovation Days” is a joint effort from alle the teachers at MIX plus the administration and the students themselves. The event is organized by the program board for the media and interaction design (MIX) program at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies\, with professor Lars Nyre as the main organizer. The Infomedia department and TekLab sponsors the event with a free lunch for participants and audience alike \nProgram schedule\nThe event takes place in the Atrium of Media City Bergen on Friday May 3rd from 10.00 – 12.30. \n10.00 – 10.05. Introduction by MIX program chair Lars Nyre. \n10.05 – 10.30. “Introduction to Open Innovation: Harnessing Collective Intelligence for Innovative Solutions”. Lecture by Joao Ribeiro. \n10.30 – 11.00. Demo of value propositions by the first year students (MIX303). Introduction by Joao Ribeiro. The students will stand in front of their posters and explain their project and talk to audience members. There will be around 15 separate projects (see details below). \n11.00 – 11.30. Demo of minimum viable prototypes by the second year students (MIX350). Introduction by Joao Ribeiro. The students will stand in front of their posters and technical equipment (f.ex. computer screens and VR gear) and explain their projects. The audience members will be able to test the prototypes themselves. There will be 7 separate projects (see details below). \n11.30 – 12.30. Free lunch and countinued mingling around the stands. Conclusion by UiB Innovation Pilots Johannes Helleve and Stine Lines. \n 
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/master-student-demonstration/
LOCATION:Media City Bergen\, Atrium
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240502T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240502T164000
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
CREATED:20240426T090433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T091440Z
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SUMMARY:NMD: ChatGPT\, Copilot & Bard – How do Large Language Models Work?
DESCRIPTION:Large language models have taken over Norwegian media companies\, and the technology is being used in increasingly more phases of news production\, from idea development\, transcription\, translation\, to summarization. \nBut what exactly is a language model\, and how do they work? Samia Touileb is an associate professor in language technology at the Department of Information and Media Studies at the University of Bergen\, works in SFI MediaFutures and is an expert on language models. In this session\, she will “open the hood” and show us what lies inside the large language models. \nWhat is so-called deep learning? What architectures are hidden between our input and the model’s output? Where are the language models’ training data sourced from? And what ethical blind spots and problematic biases exist in this data? \nThe session is part of the Nordic Media Days and required a conference ticket.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/chatgpt-copilot-bard-how-does-large-language-models-work/
LOCATION:Troldtog\, Grieghallen
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240502T124500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240504T134500
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
CREATED:20240205T104230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T091405Z
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SUMMARY:NMD: Media Survey 2024: American Conditions
DESCRIPTION:As part of this years Nordic Media Days\, MediaFutures associate professor Erik Knudsen will present the Medieundersøkelse. \nFall 2024 marks another presidential election in the United States\, prompting this year’s Media Survey to delve into the media habits of the American populace and their level of trust in the press. How and from where do Americans gather political information – and how critical are they of their sources? How do they perceive the degree of freedom of expression and societal polarization? Are they affected by cancel culture\, and if so\, how? The responses from the U.S. will be juxtaposed against the critical media literacy of the Norwegian population. Are we inching towards what can be termed “American conditions”? Are there segments of the population with media habits more aligned with those of Americans than others? We will also explore the extent to which Norwegian and American populations feel represented in media coverage. Do they have a voice in societal debates\, and do they find it useful to exercise their right to vote? The survey also examines how artificial intelligence has influenced media coverage\, trust in the media\, and media literacy. What are journalists’ attitudes towards this tool compared to the average citizen on the street? Are Norwegian media professionals\, Norwegians\, and Americans equally adept at distinguishing between content created by AI and by humans? \nThe 2024 Media Survey is conducted among a representative sample of the population in the United States\, as well as members of the Norwegian Union of Journalists\, the Norwegian Editors’ Association\, and a selection of other individuals in Norway.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/media-survey-2024-american-conditions/
LOCATION:Grieghallen
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240502T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240502T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
CREATED:20240426T091237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T091339Z
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SUMMARY:NMD: AI and the media industry: Where do we stand? Where do we go?
DESCRIPTION:When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022\, it sparked a rapid democratization of generative AI technology. It also marked the beginning of a new era for the media industry. \nThis session is lead by technology and news leaders from four major Norwegian media companies sharing the impact that the rapid AI development has had on their companies and the media industry in general so far. \nMediaFutures Steering Board Member Pål Nedregotten (NRK)\, Juan Carlos Lopez Calvet (Schibsted)\, Jan Thoresen (Labrador CMS)\, and Markus Jensen (Amedia) will delve into the challenges and opportunities that AI technology brings them. How has the technology changed the way they work? What are the biggest differences in their AI strategies? And\, importantly\, what lies ahead for AI in Norwegian media production? \nThe conversation will be moderated by Sofie Braseth Guldbrandsen\, editorial project manager at Aftenposten and chair of Nona. \nThis session is part of the Nordic Media Days and requires a conference ticket.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/ai-and-the-media-industry-where-do-we-stand-where-do-we-go/
LOCATION:Dovregubben\, Grieghallen
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240426T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240426T120000
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
CREATED:20240402T115215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T110707Z
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SUMMARY:Overview of Serendipity in Recommender Systems
DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures and UiBs research group DARS which stands for Behavioral Data Analytics & Recommender Systems\, is inviting to a seminar with the postdoctoral researcher Denis Kotkov from the University of Helsinki. Kotkov is working on recommender systems\, exploratory search\, user experience and machine learning. \nIn this seminar he will provide an overview of the Serendipity in Recommender Systems. \nAbstract: \n“Have you ever wondered why services like Spotify\, Netflix or YouTube keep showing you recommendations on the same topic over and over again? One of the reasons for that is the lack of serendipity in recommender systems of these services. Recommender systems are software tools that suggest items\, such as audio recordings or videos\, of interest to users. Meanwhile\, serendipity is the property of these systems\, which indicates the degree\, to which they suggest items that pleasantly surprise users. In this talk\, I will provide an overview of serendipity in recommender systems. In particular\, I will talk about how the concept of serendipity has been defined and measured in recommender systems\, and what experiments have been conducted to investigate this concept. I will also touch on recommendation algorithms designed to suggest serendipitous items and discuss future directions of the top.” \nMore about Denis Kotkov. \nThe talk will take place at MediaFutures headquarter and takes 30 minutes\, plus a 15-minute-long Q&A session. The seminar will also be streamed. You can find the link below.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/overview-of-serendipity-in-recommender-systems/
LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240423T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240423T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
CREATED:20240108T110632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T110632Z
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SUMMARY:Christie Conference 2024
DESCRIPTION:The Christie Conference aims to be UiB’s key forum connecting research\, politics\, administration\, culture\, society\, and business. Held annually in late April at the University Aula\, it’s named after Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie\, founder of Bergen Museum\, a prominent political figure\, and a bridge between the museum and societal stakeholders. On Tuesday\, April 23rd\, the Christie Conference 2024 takes place at the University Aula. \nThis year\, our focus turns to Europe\, asking: What will Europe look like in 10 years\, and how can Bergen and Norway influence its development? \nFuture of Europe – What Opportunities Lie Ahead?\nEurope is a vital part of our identity\, offering some of the best in art\, culture\, research\, and humanism. Since the Second World War\, and particularly after the fall of the Berlin Wall\, cooperation\, shared institutions\, and efforts toward peaceful coexistence have made significant progress. Geopolitical changes\, such as the pandemic\, rising nationalism\, deglobalization\, and the conflict in Ukraine\, have altered this trajectory. Norway now faces a different Europe than it did just five years ago. \nAt the Christie Conference\, we look forward and discuss: \nDoes Europe possess the tools needed to tackle future challenges? What role does Norway play as an energy supplier\, an industrial nation\, and in security policy? How can Bergen and Norway contribute to the future of Europe? \nWe invite you to engaging discussions among key figures in research\, society\, business\, and culture. \nThe final program and registration will be available in February\, but mark your calendars for April 23\, 2024.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/christie-conference-2024/
LOCATION:UiB Universitetsaulaen and online
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240416T141500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240416T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
CREATED:20240411T131246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T131853Z
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SUMMARY:Building to learn\, not to launch
DESCRIPTION:April 16\, Lasse Mejlvang Tvedt\, and Christopher Pearsell-Ross from Futures Lab will hold a guest lecture in professor Frode Guribyes course\, where they talk about how Schibsted works with prototyping and AI to make new applications. \nJoin Lasse Mejlvang Tvedt\, Senior Creative Technologist\, and Christopher Pearsell-Ross\, Senior UX Designer\, to learn more about how Schibsted Futures Lab uses strategic foresight\, speculative design\, and technical prototyping to explore AI and emerging user interfaces. Their work spans virtual avatars\, automated news summarisation\, conversational interfaces\, automated AI agents\, and spatial computing. \nSchibsted Futures Lab was established almost two years ago with the intention to explore scenarios that may impact Schibsted. Schibsted Futures Lab is headed by Andreas Bengtsson\, who was one one the panel participants at MediaFutures Annual Meeting 2023. \n““And note: The name is Schibsted Futures Lab\, not Future Lab. The “s” in the name underlines that there are multiple possible futures\, not only one. We don’t pretend to know the answer\, but will be exploring different directions\,” says Andreas Bengtsson at the launch of Futures Lab. \nThe lecture is open for all and takes place at Lauritz Meltzers Hus in SV-bygget\, Auditorium Storetinget 1st floor. No sign up required.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/building-to-learn-not-to-launch/
LOCATION:Lauritz Meltzers Hus\, - SV-bygget - Fosswinckelsgate 6 - - Auditorium Storetinget 1st floor\, Bergen
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240412T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240412T151500
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T102439Z
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SUMMARY:CuttingEdgeAI: Open Norwegian language models as common property.
DESCRIPTION:Earlier this month\, MediaFutures professor Lilja Øvrelid and Erik Velldal released in collaboration with other partners several Norwegian language models openly available and trained on open data. These have now been downloaded over 6000 times and put into active use. Now\, NORA is organising a launch event\, where they will present the models alongside their collaborators and discuss the way forward for open Norwegian language models as common property. \nWhat to expect: \nLarge Language Models (LLMs) are the technology behind services like ChatGPT\, Google Gemini\, or Microsoft Copilot. These are examples of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms that can seemingly independently create text\, images\, sound\, or even video. The underlying technology is large-scale machine learning\, a combination of vast amounts of data and computational power. The data these models are trained on is crucial for their behavior\, including knowledge of language\, values\, and sociocultural contexts. \nGenerative AI will continue to have profound effects on society. The development is dominated by large American technology companies\, mostly behind closed doors\, where smaller languages like Norwegian are not a priority. It is necessary for Norway to take action to preserve our digital autonomy. We need open Norwegian language models that more accurately reflect Scandinavian culture and values. \nThis event provides insights into the technology and ongoing efforts\, including those at the University of Oslo and the National Library\, to offer open generative language models specifically tailored to the Norwegian language for use in both research and commercial development. Several Norwegian language models trained on the European supercomputer LUMI were made openly available in February 2024. Within a few weeks\, these models were downloaded thousands of times. \nYou can register for the event by clicking on the link below event tags. \nProgram:\n\n\n\nTid\nTittel\nForedragsholder\n\n\n\n\n12:30 – 13:00\nRegistrering\n\n\n\n13:00 – 13:05\nVelkommen\nKlas Pettersen\, NORA.\n\n\n13:05 – 13:20\nHvordan fungerer GPT-språkmaskineriet\nStephan Oepen\, UiO.\n\n\n13:20 – 13:45\nLansering av nye store og åpne norske språkmodeller\nLilja Øvrelid\, UiO; \nErik Velldal\, UiO; \nAndrey Kutuzov\, UiO; \nDavid Samuel\, UiO.\n\n\n13:45 – 13:55\nDigitale norske språkdata ved Nasjonalbiblioteket\nSvein Arne Brygfjeld\, NB.\n\n\n13:55 – 14:10\nHvordan bruke norske språkmodeller i praksis? Erfaringer fra Schibsted\nSimen Eide\, Leder for Schibsteds AI Enablement Program.\n\n\n14:10 – 14:20\nLUMI: Lagrings- og beregningsinfrastruktur for storskala KI\nGunnar Bøe\, Managing Director\, Sigma2.\n\n\n14:20 – 15:10\nPanelsamtale: Samfunnsbehov og risikoer knyttet til store språkmodeller\nModerator: Klas Pettersen \nPanelister: \n– Aslak Sira Myhre\, NB \n– Gunnar Bøe\, Sigma2 \n– Lilja Øvrelid\, UiO \n– Sven Størmer Thaulow\, Schibsted \n– Åse Wetås\, Språkrådet\n\n\n15:10 – 15:15\nAvslutning
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/cuttingedgeai-nora-llm-open-norwegian-language-models-as-common-property/
LOCATION:Domus Bibliotheca\, Karl Johans gate 47\, 0162\, Oslo
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240410T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240410T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
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SUMMARY:Mobilisation seminar on AI for trust and sustainability
DESCRIPTION:In connection with the upcoming announcement of the AI billion\, the Research and Innovation Department at UiB (Forsknings- og innovasjonsavdelingen FIA) invites academic communities researching artificial intelligence to a mobilization seminar. The purpose is to highlight AI environments and center initiatives at UiB\, and identify opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration in future work. \nThe Research Council’s board decided at the meeting on February 7th that the Government’s billion-dollar investment “AI for Trust and Sustainability” will be announced in the form of 4-6 centers for artificial intelligence. The centers will be 5-year thematic\, challenge-driven initiatives\, promoting interdisciplinary\, interinstitutional\, and cross-sectoral collaboration. The announcement is divided into two parts\, with a mandatory outline in the first step\, to be submitted by June 7\, 2024. Here you can read more about how the Research Council envisions the focus of the centers in each of the three main areas – societal consequences\, technological development\, and innovative use. \nThe keynote speaker at the event will be Anne Kjersti Fahlvik\, Director of the Research Council’s area\, followed by a question and answer session after her presentation. \nWe will also facilitate opportunities for environments interested in coordinating an AI center and planning to apply for the announcement to present a brief pitch with their idea for a center application in plenary. There will be ample opportunity to explore collaboration and synergies with other AI environments at UiB and external stakeholders and potential partners through a networking lunch session. All academic communities with an AI profile are invited to this event\, and we encourage everyone interested in participating in a center application to join. Those wishing to present their pitch for an AI center on stage should register this in the registration form by April 2nd. \nThe deadline for registration for the general public is extended to April 5th. \n**Program:** \n**10:00-11:00**\n– **Welcome and Information about the Announcement**\n– Welcome by Vice-Rector Pinar Heggernes\, UiB\n– Presentation by Anne Kjersti Fahlvik\, Director of Innovation in Business and Public Sector\, Research Council\n– Q&A Session \n**11:00-11:20**\n– **Coffee Break** \n**11:20-12:55**\n– **AI Center and Research Center Applications**\n– Support System and Application Process at UiB by Birgit Falch\, Research and Innovation Department\, and Alexander Oltu\, IT Department\n– What Does it Entail to Apply for a Research Center? TBA\n– Pitches for Research Centers for Artificial Intelligence at UiB\n– Upon registration\, participants in the seminar who wish to coordinate a center application are encouraged to indicate whether they will pitch their idea for an artificial intelligence center to the audience. The purpose of idea pitching is to open up collaboration opportunities and invite stakeholders and academic communities interested in contributing to further develop the idea. \n**12:55-13:00**\n– **Conclusion\, Introduction to Lunch and Networking** \n**13:00-14:00**\n– **Lunch and Networking in the Lounge outside the Main Hall\, with Opportunity for Posters/Stands**
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/prep-seminar-on-ai-for-trust-and-sustainability/
LOCATION:Storsalen\, Nygårdsgaten 5\, første etasje.
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240405T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240405T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
CREATED:20240308T141736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240315T134254Z
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SUMMARY:News personalization with "Curate"
DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures invites to a seminar on news personalization with Schibsted in MediaFutures headquarter\, MCB\, 3rd floor. The seminar will also be streamed. \nThe Curate project has been created to enable Schibsted media outlets to craft an optimal content selection for each individual user\, delivering content tailored precisely to their preferences\, in the appropriate format\, location\, and timing\, all while upholding the journalistic integrity of the mission. Originally developed to curate Aftenposten’s front page in Norway\, Curate has evolved into the central recommendation system for over 50 news brands within the Schibsted and Polaris Media groups. \nChristoph Schmitz\, Product Manager of Curate and Jacob Welander\, Data Scientist at Schibsted will tell us in this seminar about the project itself\, what has been done so far and how Schibsted has been utilizing such technology innovating media experience. \nJoin the meeting on zoom:\nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/69494993779?pwd=c0k3YXZ2MDduYnhoT2FUM09WNHNKdz09
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/news-personalization-with-curate/
LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008
CATEGORIES:Seminar,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240313T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240314T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T011617
CREATED:20240301T095033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240301T095349Z
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SUMMARY:Media Innovation Xchange. EU Conference on Digital Transformation and Media Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Immerse yourself in the future of European media and join the event in Brussels (or digitally) on March 13-14\, 2024\, for a conference on the digital transformation and innovation of the media sector. The media sector is in a constant state of flux\, with many technological advances emerging at a rapid pace\, bringing forth significant opportunities as well as unprecedented challenges. On March 13 and 14\, the Flanders Department of Culture\, Youth and Media delves deeper into this during the Media Innovation Xchange conference in Brussels. Policymakers and stakeholders from both Belgium and other EU member states will have the opportunity to exchange knowledge and expertise\, gain inspiration\, and establish international contacts. \n\n\n\nWhat can you expect?\nEnjoy a line-up of inspiring speakers and fascinating showcases and explore the rapid advancements and challenges in media brought forth by technological innovations. See the program in the link below. \nYou can expect topics such as: \n\nEuropean video game sector and media crossovers\nArtificial intelligence (AI) and Extended Reality (XR)\nData driven media industry\nInnovation to counter\, detect and refute disinformation\nEuropean broadcasters: staying relevant through technology and innovation\nReaching younger audiences\n\nTo join online\, please register at the bottom of the page in the link below.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/media-innovation-xchange-eu-conference-on-digital-transformation-and-media-innovation/
LOCATION:digital
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Women in AI 2024
DESCRIPTION:On the 8th of March\, MediaFutures partner NORA invites to the Women in AI celebration at Domus Bibliotheca\, Oslo. The event will also be streamed live. \nDoors open at 17:30 – mineral water\, refreshments & canapes will be served. \nRegister here\nTogether with our partners\, NORA has dedicated efforts towards sup­porting universities\, university colleges\, research institutions\, startups\, companies and individual researchers who wish to discuss and address the diversity and gender gap in AI research\, education and in industry. By focusing on the topic and by providing a platform for open discussion\, NORA aims to develop and support initiatives that can increase the inclusion of a more diverse workforce in AI. Together\, we can inspire a more inclusive agenda within the otherwise male-dominated field of AI and ensure equal access and equal opportunities for future generations. Our collective goal should be to bring awareness by promoting female role models\, and by portraying the breadth of opportunities for AI in society at large. \nOn the 8th of March\, we invite you to join us for an evening event where we discuss the situation of gender and diversity in AI today and measures needed in effort to tackle inequality and mitigate bias in the field of artificial intelligence. \nDuring this Women and AI event\, we will bring together representatives from industry and research to address the gender disparity in AI in Norway and the world today\, and discuss initiatives to ensure inclusivity and diversity in AI for the future. \nProgram:\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nTime\nSpeaker\n\n\n18:00-18:10\nWelcome!\n\n\n18:10-18:20\nSpeaker: Ajla Gasal\, \nChief editor at the non-profit Sciencious\, ambassador of the Norwegian WiSTEM chapter\, TEDx speaker\, author and active member of her student government.\n\n\n18:20-18:40\nKeynote 1: \nHilde G. Corneliussen\, Research Professor and Research Leader\, Vestlandsforsking\n\n\n18:40-19:00\nKeynote 2: \nIeva Martinkenaite\, SVP\, Head of Research and Innovation\n\n\n19:00-19:20\nKeynote 3: \nRebecca Wiborg Seyfarth\, VP Engineering\, Völur\n\n\n19:20-20:00\nPanel discussion\n\n\n20:00-21:00\nNetworking and mingling
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/women-in-ai-2024/
LOCATION:Domus Bibliotheca\, Karl Johans gate 47\, 0162\, Oslo
CATEGORIES:Events
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