First ERC Consolidator for social communication and media sciences at the University of Warsaw!
Prof. Magdalena Wojcieszak has received an ERC Consolidator grant (€2 million) for the project NEWSUSE: Incentivizing Citizen Exposure to Quality News Online. In today's world, many people feel anxious about information bubbles or fake news.
The project aims to encourage citizens to obtain balanced information. "Incentivizing Citizen Exposure to Quality News Online: Framework and Tools (NEWSUSE)".
Members of the Laboratory od Media Studies UW, Adam Balcerzak, M.Sc., and Marcin Łączyński, M.Sc., participated in the virtual "11th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction MIDI Conference" #MIDIConference in December 2023, where in a talk entitled "Real-time gameplay data and biometric measurement integration as a data source for game user research" they presented the results of their research, which is one of the outcomes of a project carried out jointly with the Military Academy in Saint-Cyr.
A paper with the same title, also co-authored by Prof. Tomasz Gackowski and Prof. Aline Hufschmitt, will be published in a post-conference book by the Springer publishing house Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems Series.
The Knowledge-Share Communities #university&emmahub two-day workshop kicked off at the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Journalism, Information and Bibliology on November 16-17, 2023. This is one of the most important scientific events this fall at our Faculty, with researchers from as many as 18 countries participating.
The coordinators of the workshop include members of the Laboratory of Media Studies team: Anna Mierzecka, PhD, and Karolina Brylska, PhD.
https://emmahub.wdib.uw.edu.pl/?fbclid=IwAR2lZycUf036hJH2mTWPfbER3Ggp60sG9Av4PIQFBjq9W3zYtET3iSr9Rlk
The Laboratory of Media Studies at the Univeristy of Warsaw invites all individuals with a PhD or postdoctoral degree in the social sciences or humanities and expertise in cognitive psychology, psychology of emotion and/or anthropology/ethnography and/or ludology/game design and research who are interested in behavioral research and biometric measurement to apply for the Adjunct (postdoc) position in the research staff group.
We encourage you to read the details of the competition:
https://konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document/2516/datafile/pdf