News archive for ViSmedia
31 January and 1 February two events on photojournalistic research will take place in Stockholm. ViSmedia will be represented by researcher Astrid Gynnild.
As a scientist, you face ethical dilemmas when studying people on the internet. What can we do to make sure we make the right decisions? This is a question professor Dag Elgesem attempted to answer.
In the era of fake news; could an online weather report be a solution? This is one of Nicholas Diakopoulos' predictions for journalism in 2018.
Camera drones provide unique visual perspectives and add new dimensions to storytelling and accountability in journalism. Simultaneously, the rapidly expanding uses of drones as advanced sensor platforms raise new legislative, ethical and transparency issues.
"Snap Map can be fun between friends, but it can also be a too that can be misused by the "wrong" people", journalism student Maren Myrseth says.
Just before she is coming to Norway in March, professor Deborah G. Johnson was selected for yet another prestigous research award. In June 2018, she will get the Covey Award from the International Association for Computing and Philosophy’s Executive Board.
We live in a society where we watch and are being watched constantly.
The field of neural network technology is rapidly advancing in its ability to synthesize new content, whether that be videos, images, audio or text, that is at times almost indistinguishable from human-authored content. What happens when we no longer are able to distinguish whether people portrayed in a video actually exist or not?
What are social media bots and troll farms indications of? And what happens when broadcasters shift from offering appealing programs to the public, to using digital surveillance to pinpoint individuals?
After a successful Watching in the Media conference at the University of Bergen, the group of ViSmedia researchers held their biannual workshop at Media City Bergen.
"I had never met this man, but he knew where I lived, where I studied, where I used to hang out."
"I see the development of technology that can recognize emotions as something that can influence what kind of stories that are told, and how they're told", Deborah G. Johnson said at this year's ViSmedia conference.
Civil drones are about to become a billion dollar industry in Norway. What consequences will this have for privacy and security?
A new book is out on the shelves. According to reviews, it's a great introduction to Data-Driven journalism.
Drone challenges was the subject in question when University of Jyväskylä interviewed ViSmedia researcher Turo Uskali.
"If humanity is going to retake social media and push back against the tide of automated attention-manipulation, journalists need to get smarter themselves so as not to fall prey to these electric demons—and start covering bots, and their changing strategies, as a beat", Nicholas Diakopoulos claims.
"It's really about the phase we're in at the moment, where robotization and artificial intelligence are big trends that create great new opportunities, but also great challenges", Åke Refsdal Moe says.
The book "Responsible Drone Journalism" is out on the shelves, along with a great review fro University of Minnesota.
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