Storytelling, Media & Journalism With Edge Devices & AI
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The IoT has implications for two distinct aspects of journalism – newsgathering and consumption. Smart devices connected to each other can be used to provide better context to a story, such as data on traffic, weather, population density or power consumption.
Along with the ability to more quickly gather content, there is an increasing capability to modify and change that information in surprising new ways. People's personalities can be copied and pasted using neural network techniques with surprising accuracy - even with an app as simple as Snapchat.
We are at an age where information which guides societal decision making is being created, modified and remixed at an astounding and often terrifying pace. The purpose of this meetup will be to explore the boundaries between cutting edge technologies and the establishment of trustworthy information in the coming years.
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Tech Demos
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Alexey Furman is an award-winning visual storyteller, Fulbright scholar and a co-founder of New Cave Media, a 360°/VR production company based in Kyiv, Ukraine, with focus on 360 capture for media. He has been working on photo stories and photography projects since 2011. When Ukrainian revolution started, he was deeply involved in the coverage, and then went to Crimea and East Ukraine to continue photographing the ongoing conflict for various international outlets. Alexey’s work has been recognized by POYi, NPPA, PDN Photo Annual, CPOY and Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards. He was the recipient of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents in 2014 in the “Young Reporter” category and is an Eddie Adams Workshop and Missouri Photo Workshop alumni. In summer of 2016, together with Sergiy Polezhaka, he founded New Cave Media (http://newcavemedia.com/). Together with his team, Alexey uses 360° video to tell stories of people who had suffered from the ongoing war in Ukraine. In July 2017, New Cave Media received a Journalism 360 Challenge grant to accomplish Aftermath VR, a virtual reality app that would apply photogrammetry to recreate scenes of news events and tell the story through archival footage.
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Tyler Mason is an FAA certified commercial drone pilot and has worked in marketing, production for AirVuz (http://airvuz.com/), a company dedicated to capturing media and images through the use of Drones. Prior to starting at AirVuz, Tyler covered the Minnesota Twins and University of Minnesota athletics as a sports writer for FoxSportsNorth.com. Tyler graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009 with a BA in Journalism.
Discussion Panel
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Valerie Belair-Gagnon is Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies at the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication, and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. She is also Director of the Minnesota Journalism Center, and an Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. Her research interests are in journalism studies, emerging media, innovation, and audience engagement. She is the author of Social Media at BBC News (Routledge, 2015). Born in Montréal (Canada), she earned a BA in sociology (honors) from McGill University, an MSc in sociology from Université de Montréal, and a PhD in sociology from City University of London.
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Colin Agur is an Assistant Professor at the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication (https://cla.umn.edu/hsjmc) at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. His research examines contemporary mobile phone usage, the social and legal implications of mass mobile telephony, and the unanticipated consequences of network development. He received his PhD from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and completed a two year postdoctoral fellowship at Yale Law School. At the International Communication Association (ICA), Agur is Chair of the Mobile Communication Interest Group, a global network of 200 scholars studying issues related to mobile communication. At the University of Minnesota, Agur teaches courses on Digital Games and the Economics of New Media.
Panel Moderator:
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Muhammad Abdurrahman (https://twitter.com/muhammadscript) is the founder of Reemo (http://reemohealth.com/), as well as more recently Geeksfor Good.io (https://twitter.com/GeeksforGoodIO). Dr. Abdurrahman was a keynote at the original IoT Fuse 2015 conference, and has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Minnesota.