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The Department of Information Science and Media Studies offers theoretical and practical studies in media, technology and information science, and has research and development projects funded by, among others, European Research Council, the Research Council of Norway and industry partners.

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It is time for an Interdisciplinary Network for Research on Gender and Games

We are living in a political moment globally in which research on gender is increasingly under pressure. Games studies scholars working on gender and games are all too familiar with these pressures and with the challenges that come with it.
Innovation
Faksimile av programvare.

Infomedia students contribute to new e-learning platform

Students at Infomedia are central in designing an e-learning platform along with professor Signe Hjelen Stige at the University of Bergen's Faculty of Psychology.

News
Bjørnar Tessem and Lars Nyre

New leadership at the department

In June 2025 Bjørnar Tessem was elected as the new leader of the Department of Information Science and Media Studies. Lars Nyre will be his deputy leader.

Artificial Intelligence | Research
Barbara Wasson portrett

UiB receives 200 million NOK for research on hybrid intelligence and learning

Hybrid intelligence is the future, according to Professor Barbara Wasson. She will head the new research centre AI LEARN, which will conduct research on the interaction between human and artificial intelligence (AI) over the next five years.

Artificial intelligence
Barbara Wasson, Marija Slavkovik, Andreas Opdahl

Three Infomedia initiatives in the final for national AI center

We are delighted to announce that three initiatives affiliated with our department are among the 19 selected initiatives across the country that have advanced to the final round in the competition to become national research centers for artificial intelligence. “This is great news,” says Andreas...

Recently published books

When music is formed (2025) - Anja Nylund Hagen, Ragnhild Torvanger Solberg, Torgeir Uberg Nærland og Michael Francis Duch (eds.)

Handbook in innovation for students (2025) - Lars Nyre, Geir Terje Ruud, Audun Gulbrandsen, Julie Sofie Berntsen, Julia Hellem Brandt, Helene Høylandskjær

Navigating Pandemic Phases (2024) - Øyvind Ihlen, Sine Nørholm Just, Jens E. Kjeldsen, Ragnhild Mølster, Truls Strand Offerdal, Joel Rasmussen, Eli Skogerbø

Methods for understanding media use (2024) - Hallvard Moe and Brita Ytre-Arne

Technology - a theoretical introduction (2024) - Lars Nyre

Media Use in Digital Everyday life (2023) - Brita Ytre-Arne

An Introduction to Global Media for the Twenty-First Century (2022) - Ole J. Mjøs

What is the Avatar? (2022) - Rune Klevjer

Social Data Analytics (2022) - Amin Beheshti, Samira Ghodratnama, Mehdi Elahi, Helia Farhood

Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State (2021) -  Asbjørn Grønstad

The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies (2021) - bidrag fra Asbjørn Grønstad og Øyvind Vågnes

Kingdom of Nokia - How a Nation Served the Needs of One Company (2021) - Carl-Gustav Lindén

"Sport and National Culture in Swedish Film”, i boken Sport, Film and National Culture (2021) – Peter Dahlén