CHALLENGES OF JOURNALISM IN 21 ST CENTURY – AUTOMATED JOURNALISM AND AI JOURNALISM SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague
WELCOME REMARKS
10:00 – 10:30
Václav Moravec (Charles University, Prague)
Petr Konvalinka (Chairman of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic)
Alice Němcová Tejkalová (Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 1
10:30 – 11:00
Charlie Beckett (Director of Polis and the Polis/LSE JournalismAI project, The London School of Economics and Political Science)
„AI and the challenge to journalism“
MORNING SESSION
11:00-12:00
Chair: Filip Láb (Charles University, Prague)
11:00 – 11:20
Samuel Danzon-Chambaud, Alessio Cornia (Dublin City University)
“A systematic review of automated journalism scholarship: guidelines and suggestions for future research”
11:20 – 11:40
Kenza Lamot (University of Antwerp)
“What the metrics say. Online news popularity on the web and social media pages of mainstream media outlets“
11:40 – 12:00
Joana Rodrigues da Silva (University of Porto)
“Connect the dots: automation in investigative journalism workflow“
LUNCH BREAK
12:00 – 13:00
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 2
13:00 – 13:30
Sebastian Garcia (Czech Technical University, Prague; AVAST)
„Computational Propaganda, the mother of modern misinformation. An exploration on understanding and detecting it“
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 3
13:30 – 14:00
Peggy van der Kreeft (Research and Cooperation Projects / Projects & Development Deutsche Welle (DW), Bonn)
„Automation in NLP to optimize editorial workflows for international broadcasters“
AFTERNOON SESSION
14:00-16:00
Chair: Alice Němcová Tejkalová (Charles University, Prague)
14:00 – 14:20
Jannick Kirk Sørensen (Aalborg University)
“The Data Logic of Public Service Media Publishing – Concerns and Approaches when Implementing Recommender Systems for Public Service Media“
14:40 – 15:00
Jiří Špaček (Czech Radio)
„Czech Radio on the Road to the AI Future“
15:20 – 15:40
Alan Renwick (CEO RADAR)
„Rethinking the economics of local public interest news – Combining journalists, data and automation to make quality content affordable at a granular level“
15:40 – 16:00
Radek Mařík, Václav Moravec (Czech Technical University, Prague and Charles University, Prague)
. „Building Czech AI Journalist – Prerequisites“
BREAK
16:00 – 16:30
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 4
16:30 – 17:00
Neil Thurman (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
„Online News Video: What Viewers Demand and Automation Supplies“
EVENING SESSION
17:00-18:00
Chair: Luboš Král (Czech Technical University, Prague)
17:00 – 17:20
Sebastian Garcia, Elnaz Babayeva (Czech Technical University, Prague; AVAST)
“AI for detecting Computational Propaganda Campaigns on the Internet”
17:20 – 17:40
Lei Shi (Shanghai International Studies University)
“From “Class Conflict” to “Class Identity”: A Study of Narrative Rhetoric of Fake News on Chinese New Media Based on Burke’s Identification Theory”
17:40 – 18:00
Tomáš Trnka, Dan Martinec, Jakub Sanojca (AVAST)
“Avast’s approach to fake news”