Excited to find out more about the visual futures of the media? Have another look at this year´s ViSmedia conference, which was livestreamed from the Bergen University Aula on January 19.
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In February 2020, ten bachelor students in TV production at Media City Bergen worked intensively on a new project. They were challenged to develop three video scenarios and SoMe content for the fifth and last ViSmedia conference, which was going to be held in the Bergen University Aula in March.
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Imagine a video of Donald Trump appearing in your social media feed. Would you ask yourself if the video is real? Well, why shouldn’t it be? This is the reality of deepfakes. How can fake imitations be a threat to the integrity of democratic elections?
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Where do tech savvy journalists gather to explore mobile technologies? Researchers Anja Salzmann, Frode Guribye, and Astrid Gynnild have investigated the activities of the Mojo Community, a global hub of devoted mobile journalists and content creators.
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What is the relationship between technology and society? And how can engineers learn more about the social implications of their daily work? These are some of the issues that professor Deborah G. Johnson grappled with when writing her new textbook Engineering Ethics.
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Is the pandemic invisible? -The question might seem odd, says ViSmedia researcher Øyvind Vågnes, co-editor with Asbjørn Grønstad of a book recently out from Palgrave, Invisibility i Visual and Material Culture. -But it is in fact raised with frequency, by scholars from very different fields of research. And it brings up a number of interesting discussions pertaining to a relationship that is too often neglected – namely that between the visible and the invisible.
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In the spring of 2020 thirty students in Media City Bergen made prototypes of responsible ways to communicate climate information.
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It is not easy to create responsible climate communication, and it is especially difficult to reach a young audience with it. What kind of visual design and rhetorical appeal should designs have in order to present the gravity of climate change in the best possible way?
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In the spring of 2020 thirty students in Media City Bergen made critical evaluations of climate journalism relying on eye-tracking, stress measurements and qualitative interviews. Vismedia publishes six evaluation reports made by students at the University of Bergen.
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How can 360 degree videos and VR change the ways stories are told? Will immersive journalism get its final breakthrough during the corona crisis? – It is wise and timely to watch these technologies now, says ViSmedia researcher Turo Uskali from Finland. Uskali led the work with the new Routledge-book Immersive Journalism as Storytelling, which was released as an e-book on 13 of May.
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Social media has grown to be an important platform for news consumption. By sharing links to news stories, your contact network on social media can create its own news agenda. ViSmedia associate Thomas Wold just published a paper on the matter in Norsk medietidsskrift.
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The 2020 US elections are more than a presidential election. In fact, it is more than 11,000 elections, concerning everything from state legislature to dog catchers mosquito commissioners. A journalist can’t cover all this, but computational journalism can help you to figure out where to put your resources.
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Maps showing flows of refugees and asylum seekers into Europe have become familiar elements of the news. These maps, with their circles and arrows, impose a kind of collective surveillance on people and define them as problematic.
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The concept of surveillance capitalism has attracted much attention recently. More than 70 people showed up to listen to Anja Salzmann and Dag Elgesem from UiB discussing the controversial book by Shoshana Zuboff.
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Professor Deborah G. Johnson has written a new book on engineering ethics to be published on Yale University Press. As a leading scholar in the field of engineering and computer ethics, Professor Johnson provides an engaging survey of the most difficult and controversial ethical topics within the field.
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More than 150 university students and media professionals attended the conference Snap Society on Jan. 30. The conference was held in Atriet, Media City Bergen, and focused on the uses of Snapchat in journalism, health communication and education respectively. At the conference, Snapchat experts from many fields discussed how the app is rapidly changing our social interactions.
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A forthcoming book from ViSmedia team members highlights the opportunities and challenges that come with using virtual reality, 360-video and augmented reality in journalism.
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What’s up with Snapchat? How come more than 2,5 Norwegians have downloaded the app, and how is Snapchat changing our social interactions?
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