Projects

To help media companies meet the new challenges of digitization, we support research and innovation projects with universities and in partnership with media outlets. In this way, we draw on the many areas of excellence and cutting-edge knowledge of our affiliated researchers and scientists to develop innovative solutions that benefit the media and have a positive impact on the public and society.

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  • Artificial intelligence & automation
  • Audience behavior & study
  • Audience engagement & participation
  • COVID-19
  • Immersive & connected media
  • Misinformation & public trust
  • New formats & narratives
  • User experience & accessibility
Citizen Facts
Citizen Facts

What if the future of journalism was based on the co-construction of information by tens[…]

REMIT
REMIT

In the rapidly evolving landscape of media and technology, the way we interact with and[…]

B-News: Predictive System for Bilingual News Republishing
B-News: Predictive System for Bilingual News Republishing

In the rapidly evolving news publishing landscape, the ability to predict the types of news[…]

Data During a Pandemic (PANDA)
Data During a Pandemic (PANDA)

Data and the way they are produced, shared and interpreted can have a major impact[…]

DemoSpaces: Stimulating Content Discovery to Improve Democratic Information Spaces
DemoSpaces: Stimulating Content Discovery to Improve Democratic Information Spaces

Access to a diversity of content is the guarantee of a shared information space, an[…]

Metaverse and Web3. What Perspectives for the Media?
Metaverse and Web3. What Perspectives for the Media?

This study, conducted by Laura Amigo and Nathalie Pignard-Cheynel of the AJM (University of Neuchâtel),[…]

CommPass
CommPass

This project aims to visualize the semantic similarity of news articles from multiple perspectives by[…]

CompaSciences 2.0
CompaSciences 2.0

CompaSciences is an innovative web platform for the semantic, computational and qualitative analysis of media[…]

Social network Architectures of Disinformation II (#sad II)
Social network Architectures of Disinformation II (#sad II)

The goal of this multidisciplinary project is to better understand the activity of social networks,[…]

Automatic Labeling of Visual Data Based on Human Actions, Objects and Their Relationships
Automatic Labeling of Visual Data Based on Human Actions, Objects and Their Relationships

Today, we live in a world where breaking news are almost instantly captured by the[…]

MILBOT
MILBOT

With delinearization, audience fragmentation, and the new habits of Millennials (in the broadest sense, which[…]

The Holmenkollen Project
The Holmenkollen Project

Sports highlights are traditionally created by hand. While this remains the best method for large[…]

Personalized Recommendation: from Polarization to Discovery
Personalized Recommendation: from Polarization to Discovery

Is it conceivable to offer personalized content recommendation without necessarily trapping users in so-called information[…]

PASSAGE: Subtitling of Swiss German into Standard German
PASSAGE: Subtitling of Swiss German into Standard German

This project aims to develop, in collaboration with SRF and recapp IT, an automatic post-editing[…]

Media Laboratory
Media Laboratory

Building sustainable online engagement has become a major challenge for the media industry since it[…]

Mobility Data in Switzerland during the COVID-19 Outbreak
Mobility Data in Switzerland during the COVID-19 Outbreak

During the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, IMI collaborated closely with Swisscom to[…]

Four Condos and a Containment
Four Condos and a Containment

Would you let your children play in the park? How focused would you be during[…]

The Role of Communication Strategies and Media Discourse during the COVID-19 Outbreak
The Role of Communication Strategies and Media Discourse during the COVID-19 Outbreak

This project is the Swiss part of an international study, led by the Université de[…]

Trust Over Time
Trust Over Time

This project anticipates the growing risk for media outlets to publish erroneous information as they[…]

Scientific Expertise and Media Discourse
Scientific Expertise and Media Discourse

Now more than ever, the ability of journalists to quickly contextualize information and find experts[…]

Media Observatory Initiative
Media Observatory Initiative

In the digital age, news consumers experience increasing difficulty in distinguishing genuine from false information[…]

Traceable Original Journalistic Content (TOJC)
Traceable Original Journalistic Content (TOJC)

In today’s media environment, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between journalistic content and[…]

Fake News, Audiences and Journalism
Fake News, Audiences and Journalism

This project aims to highlight how young audiences in French-speaking Switzerland (18-25 years old) are[…]

Social network Architectures of Disinformation (#sad)
Social network Architectures of Disinformation (#sad)

Social networks have become by far the most important place online to discuss and exchange[…]