Events

The lab organises several events to connect researchers working on/with digital research methods. An overview of events organised by the lab can be found here.

CONVERSATIONS: International Workshop on Chatbot Research

CONVERSATIONS 2022 is hosted by the University of Amsterdam, through its Digital Communication Methods Lab, in collaboration with the University of Oslo, Centre for Research on Media Innovations (CRMI), and SINTEF – supported by the Research Council of Norway.

Lecture on the effects of AI media (by Shyam Sundar)

Professor Sundar’s presentation, co-sponsored by the Digital Communication Methods Lab, overviewed different ways of conceptualizing the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in human communication. It discussed key concepts and concerns in the study of AI. It introduced the speaker’s theoretical framework for human-AI interaction (HAII) based on the theory of interactive media effects (TIME), and describe recent studies that apply his HAII-TIME model to content moderation and recommendation systems.