2020

DJRG online focus seminar

OsloMet DJRG will organise online focus seminars via Zoom with three prominent speakers this fall. Participation is exclusive to DJRG research members, and its international fellow community.

“The experience of UK community journalists in the coronavirus pandemic

Time and place: 2020-09-30, 3-4 pm

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen | Professor Cardiff University

“Resilience to Online Disinformation: Lessons from Cross-National Comparative Research”

Time and place: 2020-11-25, 3-4 pm

Edda Humprecht is a Senior Research and Teaching Associate at the Institute of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich and is currently leading a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation on resilience to online disinformation in comparative perspective.

On the democratic role of news recommenders

Time and place: 2020-10-28, 3-4 pm

Natali Helberger is Distinguished University Professor Law and Digital Technologies, with a special focus on AI, and affiliated with the Institute for Information Law, IViR.

“The Social Construction of Journalism Studies”.

Time and place: Postponed

Presentation by Jane Singer, research lead and Professor of Journalism Innovation at City, University of London.

Understanding Data Journalism in Investigative Reporting in the Arab World.”

Time and place: March 12.

Videopresentation by Saba Bebawi, scholarly fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, and visiting fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is currently an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow.

Democracy without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society.”

Time and place: March 25.

Videopresentation by Victor Prickard, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.