Tokyo, Japan — June 2026 — The Media Bias Group is pleased to announce that its proposal for a Dagstuhl Seminar has been accepted by Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics, one of the world's most prestigious venues for scientific exchange in computer science. The seminar, entitled "Towards Standardizing Media Bias for Computational Research,"…

Tokyo, May 18, 2025 — The Echizen Laboratory at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, and the Media Bias Group (media-bias-research.org) are expanding their research collaboration in the areas of artificial intelligence, media bias analysis, and bias awareness. Over the past year, the Media Bias Group has been hosted at NII, supported in part…

  Tokyo, Japan — The Media Bias Group (MBG) announces new Postdoctoral and PhD opportunities hosted at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in collaboration with SOKENDAI. The programs support research on media bias, content veracity, computational social science, and AI methods for analyzing digital information ecosystems. Postdoctoral Positions offer researchers the freedom to pursue…

We’re excited to announce that our team, in person of Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, and Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, has been awarded a prestigious research grant of close to €700,000 by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to develop BARI—the Bias Analysis Research Infrastructure. The project brings together researchers from…