FAKE NEWS – Susanne Alvestad is a postdoctoral fellow in modern Slavic languages at the University of Oslo. For her PhD thesis on the use of verbal aspect in Slavic imperatives she received His Majesty the King of Norway´s Gold Medal for outstanding dissertations in the humanities. Having studied Slavic languages as well as Turkish and Hebrew she is a broadly trained linguist who knows a thing or two about how languages work and about the power of language. In her talk at NODA, titled Fakespeak – the language of fake news. Linguistics in the service of disinformation detection, she will discuss how and why linguistics may be the key to the detection of fake news and other kinds of disinformation.

INVESTIGATION – Steiro is publisher of VG, the most successful Norwegian newspaper, constantly winning national and international awards for their investigative journalism and digital innovations. VG would compete for the top in an international ranking of remarkable business achievements transforming itself from a tabloid single copy sales strategy to the fastest growing subscription base in Norwegian media history. It’s ambitious «moon-landing» is to create a sustainable digital revenue base to fund their journalism completely not depending on print revenue at all. Gard Steiro is the inspirational head of this editorial beacon. He will give insights in how the mediahous became the digital powerhouse of the Schibsted Company and be rewarded best in class.

Coworking journalists and developers – introductions and workshop combined – producer Magnus Bjerg, DTV2.
Magnus Bjerg, Digital Projects Manager at TV 2 Denmark, har just returned from a year as a Knight Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA. He will speak on what he learned about how journalists and developers can work better together. He will also report on speak how he was chosen for the fellowship and the opportunities it provides.

Data visualization: newsroom trends, everyday engagements, possible futures  

This presentation looks at the production of data visualizations (or dataviz) in newsrooms and audiences’ engagements with dataviz, drawing on two separate research projects. The first is Seeing Data (seeingdata.org), which explored how people make sense of data visualizations, and the second is INDVIL (indvil.org), on which I worked with others to ask: How is data visualization being embedded into newsroom practice? What trends are emerging, and what challenges are arising? On the INDVIL project, we found that dataviz are perceived in diverse ways and deployed for diverse purposes. On Seeing Data, we also found great diversity, this time in how audiences make sense of dataviz. This diversity is important for the future work of dataviz practitioners. I conclude the talk by reflecting on what future data visualization in the news might look like.

Helen Kennedy is Professor of Digital Society at the University of Sheffield. Her research has traversed digital media landscapes and has often involved working closely with media practitioners. She is currently investigating the datafication of everything, with an emphasis on the visual dimensions of this phenomenon. She leads the Seeing Data (seeingdata.org) programme of research, on which she collaborates with award-winning data visualizers such as Visualising Data (http://visualisingdata.com/) and Clever Franke (https://www.cleverfranke.com/).