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SFI MediaFutures - Newsletter Week 8

Check out our recent news and updates below

NEWS 



Journalisten.no reports on new prototypes of AI tools developed by MediaFutures’ PhD candidate Sohail Ahmed Khan in collaboration with Faktisk.no 


In an article for Journalisten.no, PhD candidate Sohail Ahmed Khan talks about two new prototypes he has recently developed in collaboration with Faktisk.no.

 
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New Demo & Posters Sites


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.
 
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The Generative AI in the Newsroom Challenge


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


We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for a research group Media Content Production and Analysis.

Application date: 26 March
 
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RESEARCH 


Visual user-generated content verification in journalism: an overview

 

In their latest publication, MediaFutures researchers present a detailed analysis of journalistic process for visual content verification and provide an overview of available tools employed by the media industry in assessing the veracity of user-generated content.

 
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How COVID-19 metrics became a valuable form of journalism during the pandemic: insights from a Norwegian study

 

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.
 
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Meetings
Forthcoming MediaFutures meetings, seminars and workshops. To join internal meetings, please check out the internal MediaFutures calendar. Instructions on how to add the calendar can be found on MS Teams.
 


WP Leader Meeting #40


(closed to the public)
When: Mon. 13 March, 14:00-15:30
Who: WP Leaders 

 


MediaFutures Seminars:


Reach Young: the Nordic way


When: 24 March, 12:00-13:00
Where: MediaFutures


Other Events:

Personalisation Day - the first Nordic workshop on personalisation and recommender systems

When: 30 March
Where: Oslo


NordMedia Conference 2023


When: 16-18 August
Where: Bergen
 

Latest Publications

 

Erik Knudsen, Åsta Dyrnes Nordø & Magnus Home Iversen: How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape the Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis. Februar 2023. 
https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/How-Rally-Round-the-Flag-Effects-Shape-Trust-in-the-News-Media-Evidence-from-Panel-Waves-before-and-during-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-Crisis.pdf 


John Magnus Ragnhildson Dahl; Brita Ytre-Arne: Monitoring the infection rate: Explaining the meaning of metrics in pandemic news experiencesg.  
Januar 2023. https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/John-Magnus-and-Brita-.pdf
 


Erik Knudsen: Modeling news recommender systems' conditional effects on selective exposure: evidence from two online experiments. Journal of Communication. December 2022.
https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/jqac047.pdf


 
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