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The public debate is commonly criticised for lacking deliberation. Therefore, the group member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Ida Vikøren Andersen, argues that we need a better understanding of the rhetorical modes occurring instead of deliberation
In this paper, group member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Ida Vikøren Andersen, discusses rhetorical studies’ contribution to the study of environmental communication.
“What is missing in the selective exposure theory is the fact that most likely people are reading a lot of information that they don’t agree with. Which is why I am shifting the attention to that,” Erik Knudsen says.
PhD candidate Devyn Remme on the social and environmental consequences of the transition to electric cars from a global perspective.
Read the latest updates on the OceanStates front in our research blog.
Assistant professor at UiB, Aaron Spitzer says his «life’s work» has involved seeking to understand, and trying somehow to be useful to, Arctic peoples and places.
The students at the Faculty of Social Sciences shall be seen and followed up. — This works, says the dean, Jan Erik Askildsen.
Did you miss Finn Gunnar Nielsens presentation of NVE's report on new areas for renewable energy production at sea? Watch it here! Please note that the presentation was given in Norwegian language.
Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions for 2023-2024. Deadline 7 June, 2023.
Did you miss Kristin Margrethe Flornes presentation of Eviny's pilot project from PILOT-E to develop solutions for increased flexibility in the power system? Watch it here!
A doctoral fellowship in social anthropology is available at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway.
In this presentation, Ingvald Torblå, CEO of Odda Technology, presents the plans and current status of the Green energy project Hardanger Hydrogen Hub.
Do you want to learn more about how anthropology approaches technology that will make us immortal? Or about how our senses – sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch – can be experienced differently in different cultures? Do you want to understand how Eastern Europe as a region is affected by the war in Ukraine? Or how about gaining in-depth insight into how people who must flee from their home... Read more
Erick Alvarez Barreno is the department's newest PhD candidate
- As long as we don't know more about how Big Tech use the information we share with them, we should be careful about feeding the AI technology with potentially sensitive material, writes experts from the department in an op-ed published in Medier24.
During the conference on "Pandemic, diversity and social inequality" in Bergen in October, researchers started working on a declaration based on knowledge and experiences from the pandemic. The declaration has now been published and is open to read.
Carlo Koos from the Department of Government is one of the authors of this new article published in American Political Science Review.

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