Department of Information Science and Media Studies

The Department of Information Science and Media Studies is the result of a merger between the two former entities – The Department of Information Science and The Department of Media Studies. The two disciplines joined forces in 2004 against a technological backdrop where convergence within various media and communication forms called for increasingly interdisciplinary research. Core research efforts at the Department includes the study of information and communication technologies, their social and historical developments, their institutional contexts, their contents and their use(r)s.
Video about The Department

Student

Master students make artificial speech robots

Students in the Master in Media and Interaction Design programme at UiB in Media City Bergen presented their artificial speech prototypes. The result is: Robot Buddy, Easysleep, Masebotten and Albert the kitchen assistant.

Internationalisation

"International exchange of perspectives are more important than ever"

Fulbright scholar Derek Lackaff is impressed with the facilities at Media City Bergen (MCB) and thinks that international exchange and knowledge-sharing are more important than ever.

Students

Henrik and Simon presents their "Konfliktrådet"

Master students in scriptwriting pitching ideas for TV-series

Internships at ITV Studios and NRK

Research profile

Research profile: Marija Slavkovik

Marija Slavkovik is an Associate professor of Information Science at UiB. She has spent the past ten years (including years as a student) in AI. She holds a masters in Computational Logic and a PhD in Informatics. Her doctoral thesis was in computational social choice (automated collective reasoning...

MEDIA RESEARCH

Professor Kristine Jørgensen, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen (UiB), photographed in her office in April 2017, when she was made professor of media studies.

Gaming her way to professorship

Kristine Jørgensen has been appointed professor at the University of Bergen. She is Norway’s first woman to become a professor focusing on computer game studies.