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In what ways are drone technologies useful to the news media? What are the obstacles, and what are the dangers? Can anyone be a civil drone pilot, and what is allowed above 120 meters height?
In mid-March, Lars Nyre, Astrid Gynnild and Frode Guribye from the ViSmedia participated at the first European conference on RRI and higher education, HEIRRI, in Barcelona.
With a clear goal to spread the best of data journalism and investigative journalism, the third NODA conference took place in Helsinki.
As one of 15 experts, project leader of ViSmedia, professor Astrid Gynnild was interviewed by the internationally leading website of the drone industry, skytango.
The first educational project of ViSmedia will soon be disseminated across Europe. An experimental course in drone flying and programming is featured on two full pages in this year’s issue of the UiB Magazine.
The ViSmedia project is seeking a post-doctoral researcher for a 3-year engagement to begin in the fall of 2016.
Are you interested in developing new technologies? Would you like to take video production one step further?
On August 1, PhD-student Anja Salzmann joined the ViSmedia research group. For the next three years, Salzmann will investigate how journalists use mobile technology to produce visual content.
“The drones are changing the way we look at others”, says Øyvind Vågnes in relation to the current exhibition The Drones Are Coming.
If you as a journalist can detect how information is manipulated by algorithms, many news stories are waiting for you.
Jan H. Landro will interview professor Deborah G. Johnson on September 13 in Bergen.
From September 7-9 the ViSmedia Fall Seminar 2016 was held in Clarion Hotel Admiral in Bergen.
“A magic hour,” said one of the attendants at the seminar at the House of Literature in Bergen. Read the full 60 minute conversation here.
The Norwegian Polytechnic Society, The Research Council of Norway and Fritt Ord are hosting a debate on September 27.
The ongoing ‘migration crisis’ has painfully revealed many of the geographical contradictions of the European project.

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