Discussion Forum: Synergies for Communication in a Complex Digital Future
- Starts:09:00, 20 September 2024
- Ends:10:15, 20 September 2024
- Location:BI - campus Oslo, room: A2-Red 13
- Contact:Suzanne V. Gils (suzanne.v.gils@bi.no)
Rapid advancements in AI, geopolitical unrest, climate change, and increased social media attention to companies’ stances on political and environmental issues are transforming expectations for corporate communicators and communication students. These dynamics raise critical questions about the future role of communication professionals: What parts of the profession will be supported or even taken over by AI and which uniquely human competencies will become more vital than ever? What skills are needed in this fast-changing and complex environment? How can communication professionals prioritize important issues and balance the tightrope between operational demands and strategic vision?
Join us for a discussion forum where you can engage in roundtable discussions with researchers and practitioners to jointly explore current and future challenges of the profession and develop collaborative opportunities for working towards solutions. Together, we will examine how to merge research insights and current experience from practice to emphasize the importance of highly skilled communicators as drivers of change. The think tank will focus on the crucial role of skilled communicators in helping organizations navigate multi-stakeholder demands and refine their branding strategy in an increasingly complex digital future.
Don't miss this chance to contribute to shaping the future of communication.
Programme
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Coffee and breakfast
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Welcome
Christoph Lutz and Suzanne van Gils, Professors at the Department of Communication and Culture, BI Norwegian Business School
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Forum discussions
15 minute discussions and short presentations by tables (output in Padlet).
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Summary and overall discussion
Speakers
Christoph Lutz
His research interests include digital inequality, privacy, social media, the sharing economy, the future of work, artificial intelligence, and social robots. Christoph has published widely on these topics in renowned journals such as New Media & Society, Big Data & Society, the Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, and Science and Engineering Ethics. He is also an editorial board member of three journals (Human-Machine Communication, the Journal of Business Research, and New Media & Society). After co-editing a well-received special issue on AI and work in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Christoph is currently co-organizing three ongoing special issues on the topic of privacy: one on comparative privacy research in Social Media + Society, one on privacy cynicism and digital resignation in Big Data & Society, and one on privacy-friendly and trustworthy technology for society in Digital Society.
Suzanne van Gils
Suzanne’s research interests include (im)moral behavior in organizations, (digital) incivil behavior, identity processes, and leader-employee interactions. Recent projects focus among others on the leadership communication and ethical behavior in (digital) teams. She is the section co-editor of the section quantitative leadership for the Journal of Business Ethics. Suzanne's teaching focuses on communication for leadership, ethics, business communication, as well as quantitative and qualitative digital methods at the MSc and PhD level. Before joining BI in 2019, Suzanne has worked as an assistant professor at Maastricht University, and as a post-doctoral research fellow at Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg.