Mobile Spotting in the Media 2017
The smartphone is the new Swiss Army Knife for media enthusiasts. Mojo storytelling and livestreaming are changing the premises for visual journalism. What matters is the spotting of visual news in new ways, and doing it faster than everyone else. Soon our smartphones will be able take pictures and videos at the command of your voice.
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Date: January 12, 2017
Conference host: Frode Guribye
But what is happening at the forefront of mobile app development? How can visual mobile technologies be used for good? What can we and what can we not publish online, and how do we resolve new privacy issues raised by the smartphone revolution?
These are some of the questions that will be answered during the one-day-conference ”Mobile spotting in the media”, held in Bergen January 12, 2017. Keynote speaker is Yusuf Omar, a ”cellphone trailblazer” according to Huffington Post. Omar is mobile editor in Hindustan Times, and specializes in new ways of using Snapchat, Facebook Live, and 360 video in news journalism. Omar achieved worldwide fame through a Snapchat-project in selfie-journalism about victims of sexual abuse.
Editor-in-chief John Arne Markussen will reveal the latest news on Dagbladet’s innovation on big news in small formats. Professor Jill Rettberg, focuses on dilemmas of snap research and archiving. Professors Lars Nyre and Bjørnar Tessem will present an ongoing experiment on facial recognition and image manipulation on mobile devices. Author and expert on media law, Jon Wessel-Aas, will discuss privacy and other legal dilemmas of visual publishing on the web.The conference concludes with an interactive panel debate where researchers and media experts discuss opportunities and dilemmas of mobile spotting in the media.
”By illuminating these polarities, we hope to achieve exciting debates on this important field,” says professor Astrid Gynnild, leader of the research project ViSmedia at the University of Bergen.
The conference is in cooperation with ViSmedia and NCE Media, and everyone interested in mobile development — especially journalists, researchers, developers, students and media teachers—are welcome to attend.
Program
09.00 — 10.00 Registration, coffee and fruits
10.00 — 10.10 Opening by pro-rector Anne Lise Fimreite, University of Bergen
10.10 — 10.30 «Why mobile spotting in the media?» by Astrid Gynnild, professor UiB and chair of the ViSmedia project
10.30 — 11.15 «Social Media for Social Good in the News; Using Snapchat Face Filters to Cover Sexual Abuse» by Yusuf Omar, mobile editor Hindustan Times
11.15 — 11.30 Coffee break and snacks
11.30 — 12.00 «Live Stories in Snapchat – User and Research Dilemmas» by Jill Rettberg, professor UiB
12.00 — 12.30 «Pursuing Mobiles with Tailor-made Formatting - Faster, Easier, Closer» by John Arne Markussen, editor-in-chief, Dagbladet
12.30 — 13.30 LUNCH
13.30 — 14.00 «Do’s and don’t’s Ofimages and Videos Online: How to Avoid the Regulatory Pitfalls» by Jon Wessel-Aas, media lawyer
14.00 — 14.30 «Facial Recognition and Manipulation of News Images - An Experiment» by Lars Nyre, professor UiB
14.30 — 14.45 Coffee and cakes
14.45 — 16.30 «Mobile Spotting in the Media – Ultimate Transparency or the Death of Privacy?». Interactive panel discussion with Snapchat-surprises!