• AI in journalism : with power come responsibilities

    Articles, Artificial Intelligence

    Media organisations worldwide show a growing awareness and adoption of artificial intelligence for information gathering, storytelling and news distribution. Given the potential transformative power of AI in journalism, media organisations must consider how best to use AI tools to fulfill their mission....

    on September 09, 2020

  • ESMH at EuroScience Open Forum 2020

    ESMH meets partners
    The ESMH/STOA study "Disinformation & Science" findings were presented at ESOF2020 roundtable discussion on 4 September 2020.     The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is a biennial, pan-European, general science conference dedicated to scientific research. The 2020 event brought together over 4 500 leading...
    on September 05, 2020

  • ESMH Press Review – September 2, 2020

    Media review

    Artificial Intelligence, Covid-19 resurgence & green recovery: check out the ESMH selection of 19 science & tech news published in the last weeks on the web. Pick your favourite from the most popular topics in the mainstream media!

    on September 02, 2020

  • Dexamethasone : the first life-saving drug for COVID-19 patients

    Articles, Health

    Clinical trials make it possible to evaluate whether a treatment improves outcomes. Developing a hypothesis, for example if treatment A is better than standard treatment B, clinical trials enable understanding of the role of an intervention in improving patient care. In the current search for a successful...

    on August 26, 2020

  • COVID-19 : tracking clusters to keep ahead of fresh surges

    Articles, Health
    With many countries around the world beginning to see or anticipating a resurgence of COVID-19, attention has been turning to how to avoid an economically punishing second round of lockdowns while keeping transmission down. One method is by examining the types of hotspots where clusters of cases emerge....
    on August 20, 2020

  • ESMH Press Review – August 19, 2020

    Media review

    Infodemic, sustainability & good data: check out the ESMH selection of 21 science & tech news published in the last weeks on the web. Pick your favourite from the most popular topics in the mainstream media!

    on August 19, 2020

  • Michael Hameleers : "The most effective way to combat mis- or disinformation seems to be a combination of media literacy programmes and fact-checking"

    Articles, Disinformation
    Michael Hameleers (PhD, University of Amsterdam) is Assistant Professor in Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), Amsterdam, Netherlands. His research interests include populism, framing, (affective) polarization, and disinformation. Recently, most of his research...
    on August 06, 2020

  • EU project : NEWSERA

    EU projects
    NEWSERA: Citizen science (CS) initiatives are changing the paradigm of science communication (SC). Not only the embedded bottom-up methodology takes into account people’s needs, aligning science to society, but empowers citizens to become science communicators. Moreover, launching a citizen science project...
    on July 29, 2020

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