AI and Technology in Media and Arts Talk Series: AI and Tech in Storytelling and Film

Date:

9 March 2022 – 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Zoom

Registration:

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Summary:

Speaker: Mr. Raymond Li – Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University

Title: The BBC and the Digital Revolution

The BBC is celebrating its 100th anniversaries this year.  Over the past decades, the BBC has been revitalising itself through continuous effort in adapting to the rapidly changing media environment, including the digital technological revolution in recent years. And yet, it is facing unprecedented challenges in the coming years…

Speaker: Dr. Marta Perrotta – Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo, University of Rome “Roma Tre”, Italy

Title: Public service media and algorithms.  Different approaches and strategies through the experience of some Italian and European radio stations

Summary: The recent boom in the audio industry (IAB Europe 2021) has seen both public (Berry 2020; Martin 2021) and private radio broadcasters having to respond to a highly articulated competition from commercial platforms for listening to news, music, podcasts, audiobooks, and other audio services (reading press articles, bedtime stories, etc.) for free or for a fee. Comparing the choices of different public service companies in Italy and in Europe, I will explore some of the - currently provisional - answers to these challenges, through the design of apps dedicated to listening to and consuming online and offline content.

Speaker: Dr. Xinzhi Zhang – Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University

Title: Decoding the sources of creativity of cultural products: a computational method on International and Italian sci-fi movies

The emergence of Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in human society has cultural, social, and psychological impacts. Depictions and critical reflections on AI technologies are not only debated in news or commentaries but also in the fictional and imagined worlds, especially sci-fi movies. The present project examines the representation of cyborgs (human-like robots) and human-machine communication portrayed in sci-fi movies. We harvested movie data from an open online database, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), and constructed citation networks among the movies. We reveal the most influential movies in history. We also made a case analysis on the Italian sci-fi movies, highlighting their roles in this global movie cultural trend on the fictional construction of human-machine communication. 

Language:

English

Enquires:

joeying@hkbu.edu.hk