The Faculty of Social Sciences offers organized doctoral education. To be admitted, the applicant’s education, project description and research plan must be approved and adequate financing must be in place. Admission requires a completed five-year Masters degree or equivalent education within the relevant area. The minimum requirement is normally B for both the dissertation and for the Masters as a whole. See the Faculty pages for more information.

Nomadikon is a transdisciplinary research group and center for image studies and visual aesthetics at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen. The center launched in the fall of 2008 with the project New Ecologies of the Image (2008-2012), and consists of a core team of five locally based scholars, international affiliates, and a global network of researchers in visual culture studies, film and media studies, and art history.

Journalistic reorientations is a research project that investigates how journalism changes in its encounter with the Internet. The project is run by the Journalism Research Group, whose members analyse how professional and technological challenges from online communication forms impact on the normative foundations and democratic relevance of journalism, changes in its professional practices, the political economy of journalism, and its audiences. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

Vox Publica is a web magazine about democracy and freedom of speech issues. Most stories are in Norwegian, but Vox Publica also publishes English language material. The magazine is published by the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen.

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Universitet i Bergen
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