Department of Information Science and Media Studies

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.

The department also hosts

News

AI at Infomedia: follow our work on a new site

At Infomedia we understand both the AI’s technical facets and its societal implications. A newly created site provides an overview of our wide-ranging involvement in the realm of artificial intelligence.

Studies

Infomedia students to international challenge

The MIX students Maria Tysse Hordvik and Julie Sophie Teilstad Østbye participated with their LifeLens prototype at Lifelog Search Challenge 2023 in Greece.

News

SUJO Launches a Master’s Course in AI for Journalists

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (SUJO) is launching a master course in Artificial Intelligence designed for full-time journalists.

Op-ed

- Careful feeding the AI beast

- 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.

ERC Consolidator Grant

ERC Grant for new research project

How prepared are we to get correct information and be engaged when it is needed? Media professor Hallvard Moe has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant to better understand citizen’s ability to get information and be engaged in democracy.