Conversational User Interfaces Conference (CUI) 2024
Rhied Al-Othmani(NL versie onderaan) This year's Conversational User Interfaces Conference (CUI) was held in Luxembourg. I went there to participate in the Doctoral Consortium and the workshop Between Trust and...
2024 ISPIM Innovation Conference
Last month, I attended ISPIM 2024 in Tallinn, Estonia, to co-presented a research-in-progress paper that I am co-authoring together with graduating student Sander Spiegelenberg and my PhD supervisor Gerrita van...
IDC event; GenAi is everywhere
IDC Digital Enterprise event: ‘Driving leadership in the digital age of AI everywhere’ On April 24th, I attended the IDC Digital Enterprise event in Nieuwegein, where presentations delved into the...
CONVERSATIONS 2023 in Oslo, Norway
By Rhied Al-Othmani This month, I visited the CONVERSATIONS 2023 conference hosted by the University of Oslo, Norway, together with my colleague Sarah Mbawa. The conference delved into multiple topics...
9th European Communication Conference (ECREA) 2022, Aarhus, Denmark
We (Dennis Nguyen and Rhied Al-Othmani) were invited to present our "Public Values should be leading" research at the 9th European Communication Conference (ECREA) 2022, in Aarhus, Denmark. ECREA is an association...
Centre for Digital Humanities Webinar: The news framing of Artificial Intelligence – June 6th
Date/Time09-06-202215:00 - 16:15 LocationOnline Free Registration The Utrecht University will close the Centre for Digital Humanities Spring program 2022 with an online lecture by Assistant Professor Dennis Nguyen on ‘The news framing...
“Public values should be leading!” research to be presented during 9th European Communication Conference in Denmark
Dennis Nguyen & Rhied Al-Othmani Data Professionals' Views on Challenges to Value-Driven Data Practices and Critical Data Literacy in the Public Sector The increasing use of data and artificial intelligence...
From Domain to Dominion? Charting the Global Expansion of Big Tech Colonialism
Dennis Nguyen & Rhied Al-OthmaniIntroduction The dominance that data-driven technology companies hold over large parts of the global digital economy and across digital societies has been a key topic in...
Recommender Systems in the Media and the Role of Public Values – Notes on an Interdisciplinary Approach
by Dennis Nguyen & Erik Hekman Automated decision-making systems that offer some sort of context-dependent recommendation are virtually ubiquitous in the digital society: they help us navigate our environment (Fesenmeier et...
Digital Literacy, Computational Methods, and Digital Methods in Research on Datafication
By Dennis Nguyen The emerging field of critical data studies produced a wealth of sophisticated theorisation and eloquent critiques on the datafication and automation of society. However, most approaches are...