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SFI MediaFutures - Newsletter week 23

Check out our recent news and updates below!

2 open positions: Postdoc and PhD

MediaFutures is looking for a Postdoc in Recommender Systems and a PhD candidate in Computational Social Science. Apply by 5 July and 15 August, respectively.

More information and how to apply

WP1 Seminar and Workshop

MediaFutures is pleased to invite you to two WP1 Understanding Media Experiences events next week:

Seminar: "Exploring media experience: why is it important to media innovation?"

Who: Prof. Irene Costera Meijer, Professor of Journalism Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Professor II at MediaFutures, UiB
When: Thursday, 17 June 2021, 13:00-14:00
Where: Zoom
Abstract and more info

Workshop on trust and distrust in news

Who: Prof. Irene Costera Meijer and Researcher Erik Knudsen
When: Friday, 18 June, 11:00-12:00
Where: Zoom
Program and more info

Read about the events

New WP2 publication

Mehdi Elahi; Farshad B. Moghaddam; Reza Hosseini; Mohammad Hossein Rimaz; Nabil El Ioini; Marko Tkalcic; Christoph Trattner; Tammam Tillo: Recommending Videos in Cold Start With Automatic Visual Tags. 29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization conference (UMAP 2021) Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2021.

Read the article here

Heart disease, strokes and type2 diabetes can be all linked to our diet – but how can human-centered data science make us healthier?

Heart disease, strokes and type2 diabetes can be all linked to our diet – but how can human-centered data science make us healthier?

The first CEDAS (Center for Data Science at the University of Bergen)conference was held between 1-2 June 2021 where MediaFutures Centre Director Christoph Trattner was invited to deliver a talk on human-centered data science. The conference featured several keynote presentations and sessions on AI and data science.
Photo: Randi Eilertsen, UiB

Have a good weekend!

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