On November 20 and 21, 2024, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto will host the VIII International Congress on Cyberjournalism. This year the organization has chosen the following theme for the Congress: “Platforms and actors: integrating innovation, facing challenges“. Find out more about the provisional program and all the information on the Congress website.

Program (provisional)

November 20th (Wednesday)

08h30 – Opening of the Secretariat

09h30 – Opening Session 10h00 – Opening Conference – Journalism Studies in the Age of AI
Edson C. Tandoc Jr. (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 11h00 – Coffee break 11h15 – Communications session 1 13h00 – Free lunch 14h30 – Communications session 2 (face-to-face / online) 15h30 – Conference – The use of social networks and Artificial Intelligence by Basque media and journalists
KoldoMeso (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain) 16h30 – Coffee break 16h45 – Session –“20 Years JPN – JornalismoPortoNet ”

(speaker to be confirmed)

18h00 – Communications session 3 (in person / online)

November 21st (Thursday)

09h00 – Communications session 4

10h00 – Conference – Journalism amid an age of platformization
Oscar Westlund (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway)

11h00 – Coffee break 11h15 – Communications session 5 13h00 – Free lunch 14h30 – Communications session 6

15:30 – Conference – Platforms and disinformation: challenges for journalism in the age of populist and racist algorithms
Inês Amaral (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

16h30 – Coffee break 16h45 – Debate – Platforms and players: integrating innovation, tackling challenges
(participants to be confirmed)

18h00 – Announcement of the winners and presentation of the 2024 Cyberjournalism Awards

18h30 – Closing (ObCiber)

More information: VIII International Congress of Cyberjournalism