Seminar Series
Regular seminar series at mediafutures
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Seminar: Reflections of Ourselves – Mobile Psychological Assessment with Smartphones. Clemens Stachl, Stanford University
Seminar: Reflections of Ourselves – Mobile Psychological Assessment with Smartphones. Clemens Stachl, Stanford University
ABSTRACT: The increasing digitization of our society radically changes how we use digital media, exchange information, and make decisions. This development also changes how social scientists collect data on human behavior and experience in the field. One new form of dat...
Seminar: DeepFact: Deep Learning for Automated Fact Checking. Vinay Setty, University of Stavanger
Seminar: DeepFact: Deep Learning for Automated Fact Checking. Vinay Setty, University of Stavanger
ABSTRACT: The interest around automated fact-checking has increased as misinformation has become a major problem online. A typical pipeline for an automated fact-checking system consists of four steps: (1) detecting check-worthy claims, (2) retrieving relevant document...
Seminar: Neil Maiden, City University of London
Seminar: Neil Maiden, City University of London
Details to be announced
Seminar: User-centered Investigation of Popularity Bias in Recommender Systems
Seminar: User-centered Investigation of Popularity Bias in Recommender Systems
Please join the Center for Data Science (CEDAS, UiB) and MediaFutures for an invited talk by Himan Abdollahpouri from the Northwestern University, USA, about the topic of popularity bias in
Seminar: Tomasz Kosinski, Chalmers University of Technology
Seminar: Tomasz Kosinski, Chalmers University of Technology
Details to be announced.
Seminar: Rich Ling, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Seminar: Rich Ling, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Details to be announced.
Seminar: Irene Costera Meijer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Seminar: Irene Costera Meijer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Details to be announced.
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Seminar: Are Filter Bubbles Real? Axel Bruns, QUT
Seminar: Are Filter Bubbles Real? Axel Bruns, QUT
ABSTRACT: The success of political movements that appear to be immune to any factual evidence that contradicts their claims – from the Brexiteers to the ‘alt-right’, neo-fascist groups supporting Donald Trump – has reinvigorated claims that social media spaces c...
Seminar: Multimedia Verification, with Duc Tien Dang Nguyen, UiB
Seminar: Multimedia Verification, with Duc Tien Dang Nguyen, UiB
ABSTRACT: In this seminar, Duc Tien Dang Nguyen will give a broad overview of how researchers seek to advance methods that detect and reveal modified and manipulated images and videos, and building up trust in online media based on advanced multimedia verification algo...