A strong representation of the Laboratory for Media Studies at the “Breakthroughs” Conference!
We’ve just completed two inspiring days of discussions on the latest research in the humanities and social sciences. 
Many thanks to the organizers for creating a space for exchanging ideas and reflecting on the future of media and technology research.

Our presentations:

Marcin Łączyński – Multimodal puzzles as a potential tool for creating AI reasoning benchmarks – a case study

Dr Karolina Brylska, Dr Rafał Więckiewicz – The truth of the algorithm, the truth of the candidate: Perception of authentic and AI-generated political messages

Marlena Sztyber-Popko – Between declaration and reaction: How artificial intelligence is changing journalistic work – a biometric experiment

Adam Balcerzak – User-generated content vs. AI-generated content – a behavioral experiment

Prof. Tomasz Gackowski, Natalia Strąk – From ChatGPT to DeepSeek: The imaginarium of artificial intelligence on Polish and German magazine covers

Dr Dominik Kudła – User perception of generative AI in video game localization

Prof. Jacek Wasilewski, Dr  Karolina Brylska – Artificial compliments, real emotions: Can praise written by bots improve our mood?

Prof. Anna Mierzecka, Natalia Strąk – AI tools in the context of information seeking: A biometric study