Anticipating Visual Futures

Providing future scenarios means to take a first step into the unknown. How can responsible research and innovation (RRI) be applied to anticipate implications of emerging media technologies in a fast-changing world? In this introductory talk Astrid Gynnild will discuss some take-aways from an interdisciplinary research project on the adoption and adaption of visual surveillance technologies in the news media (ViSmedia). Professor Astrid Gynnild is the Principal Investigator of the VisMedia Project at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen. The project runs from 2015-2021 and is funded by The Research Council of Norway. She is also Head of the Journalism Research Group at UiB.