An online version of the MediaFutures Annual Report 2022 is now available. The report provides details on our performance in the past year, and includes information on activities, staffing and funding.

During times of crisis, citizens tend to increase their support and trust in political leaders, a phenomenon commonly known as the “rally-round-the-flag” effect. New research co-authored by Erik Knudsen sheds light on why and under which conditions the rally effect of international emergencies – the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway – also pertains to the news media.

We are excited to announce the launch of our new demos and poster sites! The newly created web sections showcase the research and the innovative work carried out across all five research groups at the centre.

Regular and frequent updates on the infection rates was the journalistic content most sought by news users during the COVID-19 pandemic. In their latest study, researchers John Magnus Dahl and Brita Ytre-Arne delve into the question of why close monitoring of such numbers appeared meaningful, and what these experiences can tell us about the role of journalism during global crises such as the pandemic.

Interested in experimenting with generative AI in news domain? If so, a challenge designed by Associate Professor Nicholas Diakopoulos may be for you.

An online version of the MediaFutures Annual Report 2022 is now available. The report provides details on our performance in the past year, and includes information on activities, staffing and funding.

During times of crisis, citizens tend to increase their support and trust in political leaders, a phenomenon commonly known as the “rally-round-the-flag” effect. New research co-authored by Erik Knudsen sheds light on why and under which conditions the rally effect of international emergencies – the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway – also pertains to the news media.

We are excited to announce the launch of our new demos and poster sites! The newly created web sections showcase the research and the innovative work carried out across all five research groups at the centre.

Regular and frequent updates on the infection rates was the journalistic content most sought by news users during the COVID-19 pandemic. In their latest study, researchers John Magnus Dahl and Brita Ytre-Arne delve into the question of why close monitoring of such numbers appeared meaningful, and what these experiences can tell us about the role of journalism during global crises such as the pandemic.

Interested in experimenting with generative AI in news domain? If so, a challenge designed by Associate Professor Nicholas Diakopoulos may be for you.

In a recently published article in the Journal of Communication, researcher Erik Knudsen presents a new framework that aims to enable researchers to model and study the conditional effects of news recommender systems on selective exposure.

A new study co-authored by MediaFutures’ researcher Samia Touileb, shows that some of the popular Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish language models generate harmful and gender-biased stereotypes. The finding goes against the general expectations related to gender equality in Scandinavian countries.

With 2022 fast drawing to a close, here is a look back at the centre’s achievements and results from the passing year.

Presentations and research posters from the conference are now available.

MediaFutures is a centre for research-based innovation at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen. The centre operates under the Norwegian Research Council’s Research-based Innovation (SFI) scheme, and its main goal is to generate...

MediaFutures Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation invites Master students to submit poster abstracts!

The Research Council of Norway (RCN) made an on-site visit to MediaFutures as part of the contractual follow-up of the research centre. The RCN was represented by Liv Jorunn Jenssen, Solbjørg Rauset and Gunnlaug Daugstad. Besides the centre’s management team and...

MediaFutures researchers have created a semi-automated pipeline that streamlines and simplifies the process of finding relevant social media content for the Norwegian live sport service VG Live.

MediaFutures Director has been featured in an article by the Bergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry about the importance of developing responsible media technology.

Every minute, hundreds of hours of movies are being uploaded to different media platforms. For a recommender system to match the right user with the right movie, a certain amount of data is required, e.g. in the form of explicit or implicit ratings provided by...

The new work of Prof. Christoph Trattner et al. fills a gap and answers the needs for updated reference point for researchers and practitioners who consider integrating temporal aspects in their personalised systems.

Professors Brita Ytre-Arne and Hallvard Moe, alongside researcher Erik Knudsen and Postdoctoral Fellow John Magnus Dahl will present their research at the 72nd International Communication Association conference in Paris.

MediaFutures’ Work Package 3 Leader Bjørnar Tessem alongside Lars Nyre, Michel d.S. Mesquita& Paul Mulholland contributed with a chapter in the book “Futures of Journalism Technology-stimulated Evolution in the Audience-News Media Relationship».

PhD Candidate Sohail Ahmed Khan has created a Web repository containing diverse set of resources to assist journalists, fact-checkers, and the public in verifying visual user-generated content.

It is with great pleasure to inform that Hallvard Moe has been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for his research project PREPARE. The grant is considered Europe’s most competitive, with an overall success rate estimated at 12%.

In Meet the Team series we introduce our audience to the brilliant people working at MediaFutures. Get to know us better by discovering who we are and what we do.
This week we are interviewing Jonathan Geffen, PhD candidate, associated with Work Package 4 – Media Content Interaction & Accessibility.

In Meet the Team series we introduce our audience to the brilliant people working at MediaFutures. Get to know us better by discovering who we are and what we do.
This week we are interviewing Huiling You, PhD candidate, associated with Work Package 5 – Norwegian Language Technologies.

On February 2, Assoc. Prof. Fazle Rabbi took over as co-leader in Work Package 3, along with Prof. Bjørnar Tessem. Rabbi succeeded Prof. Andreas Andreas L Opdahl, who vacated the position, but remains the work package’s task leader.

It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we inform you about the passing of Anne Jacobsen, the CEO of Media City Bergen and the Media Innovation Norway. Anne passed away unexpectedly on Friday, January 28th.

MediaFutures, together with SLATE Research Centre, t2i lab, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and Schibsted had the pleasure of organising Human-Computer Interaction workshop for PhD candidates and industry representatives.

Closed to the public, the SFI Forum took place in Oslo earlier this week. Prof. Christoph Trattner, MediaFutures Centre director, was invited to present the centre at the assembly.

MediaFutures’ Work Package 3 held its 5th industry partner workshop on Friday, November 26th. The gathering aligned plans for 2022, informed the parties involved about upcoming projects and activities, and discussed the partners’ contributions.

MediaFutures’ Work Package 1 under the guidance of Prof. Hallvard Moe visited research and industry partners in Oslo. The trip lasted two days and aimed at discussing news ideas and possible challenges.

Last week Prof. Enrico Motta, MediaFutures Work Package 3 Advisor and Key Researcher, held a meeting with PhD candidates at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies (Infomedia) at the University of Bergen, during which he reflected on some of the issues that may arise when carrying out PhD research.

MediaFutures Bergen and UMass Boston’s Applied Ethics Centre invite to panel event-series. Over the past decade, we have witnessed astonishing protest events, with activists using social media platforms to mobilize masses and bring about change. Occupy’s Facebook...

With a vision to develop responsible media technology and to address profound global, industrial, and democratic challenges in the media-tech industry, MediaFutures - Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation - is celebrating its first year of...

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 terrorism”, and the...

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. Initially, his...

We are so excited to showcase you our brand-new office space in Media City Bergen! Officially we moved in May but now we are ready to show you some impressions.  That said, we are...

Our Centre Director, Prof Christoph Trattner, Assoc. Prof. II Alain Starke and master student Edis Asotic submitted a paper to the flagship conference on Recommender Systems, which has been accepted for publication in the RecSys 2021 proceedings and for oral...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) appointed MediaFutures Centre Director Prof. Dr. Christoph Trattner as a Distinguished Speaker for three years.   Trattner is an active and frequently invited speaker. He has given over 50 talks at leading conferences and...

24.06.21, MediaFutures - As the development of resposible media technology continues, so does the development of our team. Since january the research center has welcomed eight new employes and we are proud to announce and present them. Please welcome our new...

NordMedia 2021 will be held fully virtually this year on 18 – 20 August 2021. The theme of the conference is “Crisis and Resilience: Nordic Media Research in the Frontline”. Brita Ytre-Arna, MediaFutures’ Work...

ACM UMAP 2021 - The 29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization will be held fully online from Utrecht, the Netherlands between June 21-25, 2021.   Christoph Trattner, Centre director of MediaFutures,...

MediaFutures is now officially open! In this connection, we want to keep everyone informed about what is happening at the centre through our newsletters.

MediaFutures is now officially open! In this connection, we want to keep everyone informed about what is happening at the centre through our newsletters.

On Friday 21th of January, MediaFutures arranged an internal kick-off meeting for all partners as the first major event at the centre.

We invite you to the digital opening of SFI MediaFutures – Research centre for responsible media technology and innovation, Tuesday 3rd of February 14.00-15.30 CET.

On January 15th, the website of MediaFuture launch – Welcome!

An online version of the MediaFutures Annual Report 2022 is now available. The report provides details on our performance in the past year, and includes information on activities, staffing and funding.

During times of crisis, citizens tend to increase their support and trust in political leaders, a phenomenon commonly known as the “rally-round-the-flag” effect. New research co-authored by Erik Knudsen sheds light on why and under which conditions the rally effect of international emergencies – the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway – also pertains to the news media.

We are excited to announce the launch of our new demos and poster sites! The newly created web sections showcase the research and the innovative work carried out across all five research groups at the centre.

Regular and frequent updates on the infection rates was the journalistic content most sought by news users during the COVID-19 pandemic. In their latest study, researchers John Magnus Dahl and Brita Ytre-Arne delve into the question of why close monitoring of such numbers appeared meaningful, and what these experiences can tell us about the role of journalism during global crises such as the pandemic.

Interested in experimenting with generative AI in news domain? If so, a challenge designed by Associate Professor Nicholas Diakopoulos may be for you.

In a recently published article in the Journal of Communication, researcher Erik Knudsen presents a new framework that aims to enable researchers to model and study the conditional effects of news recommender systems on selective exposure.

A new study co-authored by MediaFutures’ researcher Samia Touileb, shows that some of the popular Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish language models generate harmful and gender-biased stereotypes. The finding goes against the general expectations related to gender equality in Scandinavian countries.

With 2022 fast drawing to a close, here is a look back at the centre’s achievements and results from the passing year.

Presentations and research posters from the conference are now available.

MediaFutures is a centre for research-based innovation at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen. The centre operates under the Norwegian Research Council’s Research-based Innovation (SFI) scheme, and its main goal is to generate...

MediaFutures Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation invites Master students to submit poster abstracts!

The Research Council of Norway (RCN) made an on-site visit to MediaFutures as part of the contractual follow-up of the research centre. The RCN was represented by Liv Jorunn Jenssen, Solbjørg Rauset and Gunnlaug Daugstad. Besides the centre’s management team and...

MediaFutures researchers have created a semi-automated pipeline that streamlines and simplifies the process of finding relevant social media content for the Norwegian live sport service VG Live.

MediaFutures Director has been featured in an article by the Bergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry about the importance of developing responsible media technology.

Every minute, hundreds of hours of movies are being uploaded to different media platforms. For a recommender system to match the right user with the right movie, a certain amount of data is required, e.g. in the form of explicit or implicit ratings provided by...

The new work of Prof. Christoph Trattner et al. fills a gap and answers the needs for updated reference point for researchers and practitioners who consider integrating temporal aspects in their personalised systems.

Professors Brita Ytre-Arne and Hallvard Moe, alongside researcher Erik Knudsen and Postdoctoral Fellow John Magnus Dahl will present their research at the 72nd International Communication Association conference in Paris.

MediaFutures’ Work Package 3 Leader Bjørnar Tessem alongside Lars Nyre, Michel d.S. Mesquita& Paul Mulholland contributed with a chapter in the book “Futures of Journalism Technology-stimulated Evolution in the Audience-News Media Relationship».

PhD Candidate Sohail Ahmed Khan has created a Web repository containing diverse set of resources to assist journalists, fact-checkers, and the public in verifying visual user-generated content.

It is with great pleasure to inform that Hallvard Moe has been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for his research project PREPARE. The grant is considered Europe’s most competitive, with an overall success rate estimated at 12%.

In Meet the Team series we introduce our audience to the brilliant people working at MediaFutures. Get to know us better by discovering who we are and what we do.
This week we are interviewing Jonathan Geffen, PhD candidate, associated with Work Package 4 – Media Content Interaction & Accessibility.

In Meet the Team series we introduce our audience to the brilliant people working at MediaFutures. Get to know us better by discovering who we are and what we do.
This week we are interviewing Huiling You, PhD candidate, associated with Work Package 5 – Norwegian Language Technologies.

On February 2, Assoc. Prof. Fazle Rabbi took over as co-leader in Work Package 3, along with Prof. Bjørnar Tessem. Rabbi succeeded Prof. Andreas Andreas L Opdahl, who vacated the position, but remains the work package’s task leader.

It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we inform you about the passing of Anne Jacobsen, the CEO of Media City Bergen and the Media Innovation Norway. Anne passed away unexpectedly on Friday, January 28th.

MediaFutures, together with SLATE Research Centre, t2i lab, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and Schibsted had the pleasure of organising Human-Computer Interaction workshop for PhD candidates and industry representatives.

Closed to the public, the SFI Forum took place in Oslo earlier this week. Prof. Christoph Trattner, MediaFutures Centre director, was invited to present the centre at the assembly.

MediaFutures’ Work Package 3 held its 5th industry partner workshop on Friday, November 26th. The gathering aligned plans for 2022, informed the parties involved about upcoming projects and activities, and discussed the partners’ contributions.

MediaFutures’ Work Package 1 under the guidance of Prof. Hallvard Moe visited research and industry partners in Oslo. The trip lasted two days and aimed at discussing news ideas and possible challenges.

Last week Prof. Enrico Motta, MediaFutures Work Package 3 Advisor and Key Researcher, held a meeting with PhD candidates at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies (Infomedia) at the University of Bergen, during which he reflected on some of the issues that may arise when carrying out PhD research.

MediaFutures Bergen and UMass Boston’s Applied Ethics Centre invite to panel event-series. Over the past decade, we have witnessed astonishing protest events, with activists using social media platforms to mobilize masses and bring about change. Occupy’s Facebook...

With a vision to develop responsible media technology and to address profound global, industrial, and democratic challenges in the media-tech industry, MediaFutures - Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation - is celebrating its first year of...

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 terrorism”, and the...

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. Initially, his...

We are so excited to showcase you our brand-new office space in Media City Bergen! Officially we moved in May but now we are ready to show you some impressions.  That said, we are...

Our Centre Director, Prof Christoph Trattner, Assoc. Prof. II Alain Starke and master student Edis Asotic submitted a paper to the flagship conference on Recommender Systems, which has been accepted for publication in the RecSys 2021 proceedings and for oral...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) appointed MediaFutures Centre Director Prof. Dr. Christoph Trattner as a Distinguished Speaker for three years.   Trattner is an active and frequently invited speaker. He has given over 50 talks at leading conferences and...

24.06.21, MediaFutures - As the development of resposible media technology continues, so does the development of our team. Since january the research center has welcomed eight new employes and we are proud to announce and present them. Please welcome our new...

NordMedia 2021 will be held fully virtually this year on 18 – 20 August 2021. The theme of the conference is “Crisis and Resilience: Nordic Media Research in the Frontline”. Brita Ytre-Arna, MediaFutures’ Work...

ACM UMAP 2021 - The 29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization will be held fully online from Utrecht, the Netherlands between June 21-25, 2021.   Christoph Trattner, Centre director of MediaFutures,...

MediaFutures is now officially open! In this connection, we want to keep everyone informed about what is happening at the centre through our newsletters.

MediaFutures is now officially open! In this connection, we want to keep everyone informed about what is happening at the centre through our newsletters.

On Friday 21th of January, MediaFutures arranged an internal kick-off meeting for all partners as the first major event at the centre.

We invite you to the digital opening of SFI MediaFutures – Research centre for responsible media technology and innovation, Tuesday 3rd of February 14.00-15.30 CET.

On January 15th, the website of MediaFuture launch – Welcome!