Research groups

The research groups are the department's primary professional forums, and the composition of them is therefore academically motivated.

Main content

The Department has seven research groups. The groups organise research seminars, student seminars, guest lectures and other activities within their thematic fields.

DARS research group

The DARS research group performs cutting-edge research in methods and applications in the context of behavioral data analytics and recommender systems.

The Interaction Research Group

The Interaction Research Group at The University of Bergen researches different types of interactions between humans and technology.

Journalism studies

Logic and AI

Film, Television, and Visual Culture

The group's members focus is primarily on visual culture and visual communication.

Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture

The research group for Rhetoric, democracy and public culture teaches and researches the genres and roles of the media in relation to influence, democracy and public conversation. In short: We examine the rhetoric in the media and the media's rhetoric.

Intelligent Information Systems (I2S)

Foundation, development and evaluation of information systems (IS) that employ artificial intelligence (AI) and related techniques. Central techniques are: deep learning, image analysis, knowledge graphs, machine learning, and natural-language understanding. We investigate application areas such as:...

Collage av mediebruk: Smarttelefon, kinopublikum, tv-titting og dataspilling

Bergen Media Use Research Group

Bergen Media Use Research Group is part of the Department of Information Science and Media Studies. The group researches how people use media - as audiences, users and citizens, and how they relate to each other and to society through media.

12.05.2021