On November 16th and 17th, MediaFutures hosted its third Annual Meeting at the vibrant venues of Media City Bergen and Scandic Ørnen. Drawing a crowd of more than 150 registered attendees, the 2023 edition of the MediaFutures Annual Meeting proved to be an engaging...
In their upcoming presentation at the 15th edition of CENTERIS – International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems on November 10th, 2023, MediaFutures researcher and Work Package 3 (WP3) leader, Bjørnar Tessem, alongside industry co-leader Are Tverberg and senior researcher Njål Borch, will discuss their study on the future technologies of journalism.
The Research Council of Norway (RCN) has formed an advisory board to make the process of distributing the AI money fair. This board, consisting of experts in the field with various backgrounds, initially received positive feedback about its diversity. Upon further...
We invited students from all areas of media studies, information sciences, informatics and other related fields to submit poster and demo abstracts for our Annual Meeting on 16-17 November. The demo and poster session will take place on-site at the Media City Bergen...
We can proudly present the program of the AI Policy Workshop during our Annual Meeting. From 9am to 12am on day 1 of the Annual Meeting, four experts will exclusively talk about the following topics:
When the Norwegian Government announced the allocation of one billion kroner for research on AI and digital technology on September 7, it sparked intense discussions among experts, academics, and industry professionals. Institutions, organizations, and individuals are...
The registration for MediaFutures Annual Meeting 2023 is now open. More information and the link in the post
On Day 2 of MediaFutures Annual Meeting 2023 Leif Ove Larsen, professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, will be hosting a session on collaboration between academia and the industry. Paper presentation Day 2, 13:00 at The session starts...
Researchers at MediaFutures found that consumers of algorithmically recommended news articles mostly choose news based on topical preference matches. In a conjoint experiment, lead author Erik Knudsen, along with MediaFutures director Christoph Trattner and associate...
In addition to our esteemed keynote speakers Esther Paniagua and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, we will also have the pleasure of presenting Marija Slavkovik and Andreas Bengtsson. The panel discussion will be moderated by Nick Diakopoulos, a researcher at MediaFutures.