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"If you think you as an individual are in control when you for example are scrolling down your Facebook feed, you haven't read the technological text on the wall".
"We're so close to our time, that some things disturb us even more", Øyvind Vågnes says in a radio debate about the dystopian tendency in modern TV series.
"Synthesized media could be just the thing that drives the public back into the arms of mainstream news organizations", Nicholas Diakopoulos writes.
Astrid Gynnild was recently interviewed by the University of Bergen (UiB). In the article that followed, she urges more debate about challenges and opportunities around drones.
A new generation drone weapons is on the way. In a published op-ed, Rune Ottosen urges the media to elevate the debate about these weapons.
This is one of the questions that are raised in a new book ViSmedia researcher Nicholas Diakopoulos has contributed to.
- People love videos. Not just cat videos. News videos are on the rise. But multimedia is more than videos. Award-winning journalist and documentary film maker Olivia Crellin has done multimedia work for TIME, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Al Jazeera America, to name a few. Currently she is mainly affiliated with BBC World Servide in London.
What function do migration maps serve in European media? Who decides what colors, what fonts and arrows should be used in migration maps? And what stories of human suffering are not told by such data visualizations? These are some of the issues explored by Professor Paul C. Adams in a chapter of a new book published by Routledge.
Ready for «the most powerful storytelling ever»? Welcome to a kick-off seminar on virtual reality, augmented reality and 360 video.
Bachelor students in Media City Bergen explored the expressive range of VR journalism and produced valuable research insights for Vismedia.
Care robots for the elderly and sex robots for the lonely. Robots are becoming part of our world, and we need to figure out what to think of it, says ViSmedia researcher Deborah G. Johnson. In a new article in Ethics and Information Technology, she and her co-author Mario Veridicchio discuss why robots should not be treated like animals.
The ViSmedia team gathered on Solstrand for the annual fall seminar.
Watch the presentations and pictures from ViSmedia’s Immersive journalism seminar.
Last week (Oct 31- Nov 3) several participants from the ViSmedia project presented their latest work on immersive journalism in a panel session at the ECREA2018 conference in Switzerland.
Saturday, 20th of October, ViSmedia researchers Deborah G. Johnson and Joakim Vindenes held a panel at the Global Fusion 2018 conference at the University of Virginia, USA.

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