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TEDx Bergen 24 September with MediaFutures Researcher Dr. Erik Knudsen: ‘The promise and perils of algorithmic news recommenders’
MediaFutures Researcher Dr. Erik Knudsen presents at TEDx Bergen at the event titled “A Glance at the Past – a Glimpse of the Future” on 24 September 2021, from 10:00-16:00 at Norwegian School of Economics...
Meet the team. Interview with Assoc. Prof. Nicholas Diakopoulos.
Can you give us a short introduction about yourself and your background? I’m an Associate Professor in Communication Studies and Computer Science at Northwestern University. There I direct the Computational Journalism Lab as well as the Technology...
MediaFutures contributes to International Discussion Forum on Counteracting Extreme Right Terrorism.
The appalling attacks in Oslo and Utøya on 22 July 2011 claimed the lives of 77 Norwegians, mostly children, and left the world in shock and grief. The attacks have subsequently prompted acute questions about online radicalization, “broadband...
Meet the team. Interview with Assoc. Prof. II Dr. Alain Starke.
Alain Starke has attended Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) where he studied Technical Innovation Sciences. He also spent a semester in Lausanne at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), where he studied Innovation Management....
Summer holiday 2021
Fellesferie: noun. Norwegian. In English: summer holiday in Norway when most of the employees and employers are going on a well-deserved vacation for three weeks in July. MediaFutures will go on holidays in July 🙂 We would like to wish...
Netflix Algorithm Confuses – Christoph Trattner sharing his expertise
MediaFutures Centre Director Christoph Trattner was interviewed for an article by “Dagbladet” published 08-06/21. The theme of the article is recommender systems. In particular, the algorithms used by Netflix to determine which movies their users...
