If the News Media wants to affect the way our reality is presented to us in the future, we need to develop new Journalistic Methods and Forms. What could this mean concretely?
Join our expert speakers from the University of Minnesota Duluth, and Finland's public broadcasting company YLE News Lab, in discussing the role of Journalism, Media Literacy, News Literacy, and AI tools for Privacy, Transparency and Trust in online media.
Agenda:
- Opening words, Thomas Hanson, Diplomat in Residence, University of Minnesota Duluth
- New Tools for Democracy: Combining News Media, AI and UX design, Jarno M. Koponen, Head of AI & Personalization, Yle News Lab
- Panel discussion hosted by Petra Söderling, Senior Advisor, Business Finland
About the speakers:
Thomas Hanson is the Diplomat in Residence, University of Minnesota Duluth, Chair of Committee of Foreign Relations Minnesota, and Board Member at Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights – US Foundation.
Jarno M. Koponen leads teams and builds products that combine media content, artificial intelligence and user experience design. Over the last 10 years he has focused on creating innovative personalized media experiences such as an award-winning edugame Troll Factory, an AI-powered smart news assistant Voitto and a pioneering predictive discovery engine Random/Futureful.
His work has been covered by The New York Times, Fast Company, Vice, Oxford Reuters Institute, NPR, Ars Technica and MIT Technology Review among others. He has written renowned articles about media, artificial intelligence and product design on VentureBeat and TechCrunch.
