Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution theconference@mediaevolution.se https://videos.theconference.se Media Evolution is a membership organization that help media industries to innovate and grow. The videos in this podcast are generated at our annual conference The Conference and lectures we arrange throughout the year. http://www.mediaevolution.se en-us Visualplatform http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution Videos generated by Media Evolution Media Evolution is a membership organization that help media industries to innovate and grow. The videos in this podcast are generated at our annual conference The Conference and lectures we arrange throughout the year. http://www.mediaevolution.se media, music, games, publishing, future, social, tv, film, 334841 episodic no https://videos.theconference.se/files/rv0.0/sitelogo.gif https://videos.theconference.se http://videos.theconference.se/qa-setting-stories-free <p>Q&amp;A from the session Setting Stories Free – How We Tell The Tales That Move Us with&nbsp;Priyanka Borpujari (Award-winning journalist),&nbsp;Bjarke Calvin, Sophia Jörgensen, Iben Völund&nbsp;(Duckling), Building a legacy for 21st-century journalists Marie Kilg (Deutsche Welle).</p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/qa-setting-stories-free"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968555/88174439/ec832db67b68ed711c6bac307f670d2b/standard/download-7-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> http://videos.theconference.se/photo/88174439 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:08:13 GMT Q&A - Setting Stories Free QA from the session Setting Stories Free – How We Tell The Tales That Move Us withPriyanka Borpujari (Award-winning journalist),Bjarke Calvin, Sophia Jörgensen, Iben Völund(Duckling), Building a legacy for 21st-century journalists Marie Kilg (Deutsche Welle). QA from the session Setting Stories Free – How We Tell The Tales That Move Us withPriyanka Borpujari (Award-winning journalist),Bjarke Calvin, Sophia Jörgensen, Iben Völund(Duckling), Building a legacy for 21st-century journalists Marie Kilg... Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution 16:54 <p>Q&amp;A from the session Setting Stories Free – How We Tell The Tales That Move Us with&nbsp;Priyanka Borpujari (Award-winning journalist),&nbsp;Bjarke Calvin, Sophia Jörgensen, Iben Völund&nbsp;(Duckling), Building a legacy for 21st-century journalists Marie Kilg (Deutsche Welle).</p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/qa-setting-stories-free"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968555/88174439/ec832db67b68ed711c6bac307f670d2b/standard/download-7-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> 2023 Setting Stories Free http://videos.theconference.se/bjarke-calvin-sophia-jorgensen <p><span><p>“Our world is connected by stories” says Bjarke Calvin. For him stories are not just a way to share information but a way of nurturing human connection. So what to do with the fact that news stories we interact with are more and more defined by social media? Tech-giants that dominate the media space, do not foster storytelling as their primary goal is generating advertisements. .&nbsp;</p><p>To free stories from the linear, centralised format that we are currently trapped in, we need to hack the current system.&nbsp;</p><p>“Before news was just something we consumed, now we got to be part of it.” explains Iben Völund, a high school student and collaborator of Bjarke. Using the Duckling App the students wrote and published their own stories.Iben and Sophia explained that reading a story created by someone their age is more interesting. They are more&nbsp; directly related to their own experiences.&nbsp; Packaging stories for the younger generations is important. As the students explain during the talk, online news articles look boring for them, “there needs to be more images, videos and probably some special effects.”</p><p>Making the stories more accessible means finding strategies better than paywalls to curate news, and learning from other ways of finalizing news stories.&nbsp;</p><p>The Duckling team believes that if we could wrap the stories differently, it would give agency to the younger generation. News does not need to be boring and fear-inducing, it can be hopeful.&nbsp; </p></span><br></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/bjarke-calvin-sophia-jorgensen"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968561/88174301/dd756493d8596b9eea647ab23028cbc1/standard/download-9-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> http://videos.theconference.se/photo/88174301 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:07:49 GMT Bjarke Calvin, Sophia Jörgensen, Iben Völund – Building a Legacy for... “Our world is connected by stories” says Bjarke Calvin. For him stories are not just a way to share information but a way of nurturing human connection. So what to do with the fact that news stories we interact with are more and more defined by social media? Tech-giants that dominate the media space, do not foster storytelling as their primary goal is generating advertisements. .To free stories from the linear, centralised format that we are currently trapped in, we need to hack the current system.“Before news was just something we consumed, now we got to be part of it.” explains Iben Völund, a high school student and collaborator of Bjarke. Using the Duckling App the students wrote and published their own stories.Iben and Sophia explained that reading a story created by someone their age is more interesting. They are more directly related to their own experiences. Packaging stories for the younger generations is important. As the students explain during the talk, online news articles look boring for them, “there needs to be more images, videos and probably some special effects.”Making the stories more accessible means finding strategies better than paywalls to curate news, and learning from other ways of finalizing news stories.The Duckling team believes that if we could wrap the stories differently, it would give agency to the younger generation. News does not need to be boring and fear-inducing, it can be hopeful. “Our world is connected by stories” says Bjarke Calvin. For him stories are not just a way to share information but a way of nurturing human connection. So what to do with the fact that news stories we interact with are more and more defined by... Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution 17:43 <p><span><p>“Our world is connected by stories” says Bjarke Calvin. For him stories are not just a way to share information but a way of nurturing human connection. So what to do with the fact that news stories we interact with are more and more defined by social media? Tech-giants that dominate the media space, do not foster storytelling as their primary goal is generating advertisements. .&nbsp;</p><p>To free stories from the linear, centralised format that we are currently trapped in, we need to hack the current system.&nbsp;</p><p>“Before news was just something we consumed, now we got to be part of it.” explains Iben Völund, a high school student and collaborator of Bjarke. Using the Duckling App the students wrote and published their own stories.Iben and Sophia explained that reading a story created by someone their age is more interesting. They are more&nbsp; directly related to their own experiences.&nbsp; Packaging stories for the younger generations is important. As the students explain during the talk, online news articles look boring for them, “there needs to be more images, videos and probably some special effects.”</p><p>Making the stories more accessible means finding strategies better than paywalls to curate news, and learning from other ways of finalizing news stories.&nbsp;</p><p>The Duckling team believes that if we could wrap the stories differently, it would give agency to the younger generation. News does not need to be boring and fear-inducing, it can be hopeful.&nbsp; </p></span><br></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/bjarke-calvin-sophia-jorgensen"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968561/88174301/dd756493d8596b9eea647ab23028cbc1/standard/download-9-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> 2023 setting stories free http://videos.theconference.se/marie-kilg-collaborating-with <p><span><p>Anic is not like any other writer. Anic is the first non-human columnist and while Anic is not a human they still have parents. “We saw ourselves comfortable in the role of parents, as we wanted to grant Anic as much independence as possible but we still had to create certain rules that had to be maintained.” Marie Kilg is one these parents and her collaborators created Anic as a sort of an investigation looking at what it would mean if an AI writes articles, in her talk she shared their learning and reflections.&nbsp;</p><p>Through this fictional exploration of Anic the AI-columnist, the team realized that despite what many of us may fear, AI cannot write stories. “There is a lot of human labor at every step of the process”. And while it is impressive what level of poetry and emotions an AI generated text can entail, “that is still just humans feeling the human feelings'', Marie explains. We as humans project our emotions onto an object that does not have any. Furthermore Mari underlines that AI does not have any agency that still belongs to the people who use it. And while it is easy to anthropomorphise machine learning algorithms, and attach some kind of intent to it, we humans are responsible for each step of the process in one way or another. AI is a tool and we should treat it like that.</p></span><br></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/marie-kilg-collaborating-with"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968577/88174330/dade740dd51d4d130907d0eae2861feb/standard/download-9-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> http://videos.theconference.se/photo/88174330 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:07:26 GMT Marie Kilg - Collaborating with More-Than-Human Columnists Anic is not like any other writer. Anic is the first non-human columnist and while Anic is not a human they still have parents. “We saw ourselves comfortable in the role of parents, as we wanted to grant Anic as much independence as possible but we still had to create certain rules that had to be maintained.” Marie Kilg is one these parents and her collaborators created Anic as a sort of an investigation looking at what it would mean if an AI writes articles, in her talk she shared their learning and reflections.Through this fictional exploration of Anic the AI-columnist, the team realized that despite what many of us may fear, AI cannot write stories. “There is a lot of human labor at every step of the process”. And while it is impressive what level of poetry and emotions an AI generated text can entail, “that is still just humans feeling the human feelings'', Marie explains. We as humans project our emotions onto an object that does not have any. Furthermore Mari underlines that AI does not have any agency that still belongs to the people who use it. And while it is easy to anthropomorphise machine learning algorithms, and attach some kind of intent to it, we humans are responsible for each step of the process in one way or another. AI is a tool and we should treat it like that. Anic is not like any other writer. Anic is the first non-human columnist and while Anic is not a human they still have parents. “We saw ourselves comfortable in the role of parents, as we wanted to grant Anic as much independence as possible but... Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution 14:19 <p><span><p>Anic is not like any other writer. Anic is the first non-human columnist and while Anic is not a human they still have parents. “We saw ourselves comfortable in the role of parents, as we wanted to grant Anic as much independence as possible but we still had to create certain rules that had to be maintained.” Marie Kilg is one these parents and her collaborators created Anic as a sort of an investigation looking at what it would mean if an AI writes articles, in her talk she shared their learning and reflections.&nbsp;</p><p>Through this fictional exploration of Anic the AI-columnist, the team realized that despite what many of us may fear, AI cannot write stories. “There is a lot of human labor at every step of the process”. And while it is impressive what level of poetry and emotions an AI generated text can entail, “that is still just humans feeling the human feelings'', Marie explains. We as humans project our emotions onto an object that does not have any. Furthermore Mari underlines that AI does not have any agency that still belongs to the people who use it. And while it is easy to anthropomorphise machine learning algorithms, and attach some kind of intent to it, we humans are responsible for each step of the process in one way or another. AI is a tool and we should treat it like that.</p></span><br></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/marie-kilg-collaborating-with"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968577/88174330/dade740dd51d4d130907d0eae2861feb/standard/download-9-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> 2023 setting stories free http://videos.theconference.se/priyanka-borpujari-empowering <p><span><p><b>“In every conflict the first thing to go is truth, and the first killed victim is the messenger.”</b></p><p><b>“Editors are not interested in mundane stories because we have stopped listening entirely”</b></p><div><span><p>Who decides which stories get to be told? Who defines what an important story actually is? Priyanka Borjupari shares stories of her experiences as a journalist in all parts of the world, and her views on how storytelling affects the way that we view what’s important and what is not.&nbsp;</p><p>Many aspects of our world, like countries and the people around us, are ascribed meaning whether we want them to or not. Those meanings create presumptive stories that inform us how things are, and tend to make us forget that what actually connects us is the mundane. We all have a similar aspiration to have a better life for our loved ones and ourselves, and that is what ultimately connects us. Current gatekeepers of stories, like large magazines, newspapers and editors, all decide what’s important based on their presumptions, but what about telling stories of the mundane human experiences?&nbsp;</p><p>The future of journalism should allow for the nuances in being human. After the pandemic, an event that connected and affected all of humanity, we have a unique opportunity to fight and uplift new types of stories, and let people and nations be many things.</p></span></div></span></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/priyanka-borpujari-empowering"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968575/88174407/497b64d56de883ad8fdbf94aae2e012a/standard/download-10-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> http://videos.theconference.se/photo/88174407 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:07:14 GMT Priyanka Borpujari - Empowering Complex Narratives “In every conflict the first thing to go is truth, and the first killed victim is the messenger.”“Editors are not interested in mundane stories because we have stopped listening entirely”Who decides which stories get to be told? Who defines what an important story actually is? Priyanka Borjupari shares stories of her experiences as a journalist in all parts of the world, and her views on how storytelling affects the way that we view what’s important and what is not.Many aspects of our world, like countries and the people around us, are ascribed meaning whether we want them to or not. Those meanings create presumptive stories that inform us how things are, and tend to make us forget that what actually connects us is the mundane. We all have a similar aspiration to have a better life for our loved ones and ourselves, and that is what ultimately connects us. Current gatekeepers of stories, like large magazines, newspapers and editors, all decide what’s important based on their presumptions, but what about telling stories of the mundane human experiences?The future of journalism should allow for the nuances in being human. After the pandemic, an event that connected and affected all of humanity, we have a unique opportunity to fight and uplift new types of stories, and let people and nations be many things. “In every conflict the first thing to go is truth, and the first killed victim is the messenger.”“Editors are not interested in mundane stories because we have stopped listening entirely”Who decides which stories get to be told? Who defines what... Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution 18:03 <p><span><p><b>“In every conflict the first thing to go is truth, and the first killed victim is the messenger.”</b></p><p><b>“Editors are not interested in mundane stories because we have stopped listening entirely”</b></p><div><span><p>Who decides which stories get to be told? Who defines what an important story actually is? Priyanka Borjupari shares stories of her experiences as a journalist in all parts of the world, and her views on how storytelling affects the way that we view what’s important and what is not.&nbsp;</p><p>Many aspects of our world, like countries and the people around us, are ascribed meaning whether we want them to or not. Those meanings create presumptive stories that inform us how things are, and tend to make us forget that what actually connects us is the mundane. We all have a similar aspiration to have a better life for our loved ones and ourselves, and that is what ultimately connects us. Current gatekeepers of stories, like large magazines, newspapers and editors, all decide what’s important based on their presumptions, but what about telling stories of the mundane human experiences?&nbsp;</p><p>The future of journalism should allow for the nuances in being human. After the pandemic, an event that connected and affected all of humanity, we have a unique opportunity to fight and uplift new types of stories, and let people and nations be many things.</p></span></div></span></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/priyanka-borpujari-empowering"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968575/88174407/497b64d56de883ad8fdbf94aae2e012a/standard/download-10-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> 2023 Setting Stories Free