by Janina Wildermuth | Sep 29, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by Janina Wildermuth | Sep 12, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
We have the honour to announce Esther Paniagua as our second keynote speaker for the Annual Meeting 2023. With her outstanding contributions to science, technology, and cybersecurity she will be an enrichment for our Meeting. Esther Paniagua is journalist, author,...
by Anna Pacholczyk | Jun 21, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
Embarking on uncharted terrain, MediaFutures scientists conducted a study to assess the effectiveness of Norwegian pre-trained language models (LM) in discerning veracity of claims. The results demonstrate that Norwegian pre-trained LMs outperform a SVM baseline...
by Anna Pacholczyk | Mar 17, 2023 | News, Post without featured image, Uncategorized
Scheduled for March 28th, MediaFutures has arranged for mid-term evaluations of the centre’s two PhD candidates, Ayoub El Majjodi and Anastasiia Klimashevskaia. The PhD candidates will showcase their research progress, current findings, and discuss their plans....
by Anna Pacholczyk | Feb 6, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
The harnessing of visual user-generated content has become a daily routine in newsrooms and an important feature of journalistic work. The increased use of material generated by audiences has also seen an increasing interest in UGC’s verification technology and...
by Anna Pacholczyk | Nov 22, 2022 | News, Uncategorized
Held on November 15th and 16th in Media City Bergen, MediaFutures’ 2nd Annual Meeting came out to be a great success. With over 130 registered guests, the annual conference provided a great opportunity for researchers and industry practitioners to come together, and...
