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“Channeling technological innovation to increase productivity is one of the most important challenges facing the media industry”
Faktisk.no joined WP3 as an industry partner in August last year. I’ve been part of that work package since then, and also taken a seat on the Steering Board.
“We’ve seen signs of industry retraction from tech companies, indicating that news industries are asserting their independence from corporate tech power”
I’ve been working with NRK to develop their front page categorisation scheme. I’ve worked a lot with content analyses of media content in the past, so I have some experience in categorising news – so whether we are looking at a crime story or a political story, social issues or sports.
From research assistant to backend developer in TV2
Snorre Alvsvåg, a Master’s graduate in Information Science from Sotra, has built an impressive career path. Starting as a research assistant at SFI MediaFutures in 2021, he moved up to a full-time developer position at Norway’s commercial public...
Transparency, privacy and fairness in recommender systems
On June 6, SFI MediaFutures had the privilege of hosting Dipl.Ing. Dr.techn. Dominik Kowald from the Graz University of Technology for an insightful seminar on transparency, privacy, and fairness in recommender systems. Dr. Kowald is research area...
Winner of the New Media Writing Prize: Florence Walker is blending Literature and Coding
With ‘I Dreamt of Something Lost’, former research assistant Florence Jane Walker has created an interactive story that explores data-conscious electronic literature. Having recently won the main category of the New Media Writing Prize, her project...
Four papers at ACM UMAP 2024: Center director happy to see PhDs at the forefront
Four research papers from MediaFutures are set to be presented at the 32nd ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (ACM UMAP) 2024, a premier event for groundbreaking advancements in user-adaptive systems....
