The next and final keynote speaker at COMNEWS 2023 is Noshir Contractor; his focus is on the potentials inherent in computational social science. Communication research has become central to any academic discourse around the world over the past decades, but this also means that we must take on the grand societal challenges of the present day.
The first such challenge is the acceleration of technological change, and Noshir here points to the early question-answering system IBM Watson, which showed its abilities by winning the TV show Jeopardy – its creator has said that building the team that built Watson was …