PhD Research

The Department of Information Science and Media Studies have several PhD-candidates working on various projects related to the media and information sciences. Find out more about the research conducted by our PhD-candidates here.

Aneta Grabmüllerová

The objective of this study is to investigate how the International Olympic Committee, organizer of the Olympics, use their role in media to improves gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Arngeir Berge

The project will explore novel user interfaces for decision support based on artificial intelligence, so-called intelligent user interfaces.

Anja Salzmann

Visual News Practices - exploring processes of social learning and knowledge transfer related to the adoption of mobile technology for visual news journalism and multimedia content creation.

Fredrik Håland Jensen

How to tailor video streaming services for demographic groups, and how they can keep their relevance

Hilde Sakariassen

What promotes and what inhibits our public participation trough social media?

Ingeborg Hedda Paulsen

Rhetorically working through: Public feelings and mental health issues.

Joakim Vindenes

User experience of Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) from a phenomenological perspective

Kamila Misiejuk

Exploring of the potential of learning analytics to support peer assessment.

Kari Johanne Spjeldnæs

Exploring changes in reading practices and consequences of digitalization for the publishing industry in a world of digital distractions.

Katharina Schütz

This project seeks to research the creation and dissemination of queer youth culture online, specifically on video-creation platforms such as TikTok, Instagram Reels and Byte.

Katherine Duarte

The thesis touches upon many subjects: how the media covers uncertainty and skepticism, but also how they portray climate fatigue and ultimately how climate scientists and journalists rely on each other, and how their communicative relationship plays out.

Mehri Agai

Digital disconnection and social inequalities among adolescents.

Milka Bochere Gesicho

This dissertation assesses HIV-indicator data reporting by health facilities for a period of eight years (2011-2018), using Kenya as a case study.

Mina Young Pedersen

The PhD project combines mathematical analysis, epistemology and formal logic to research how we can use logical systems to analyze behavior and communication in social networks.

Oda Elise Nordberg

Design and innovation.

Pavel Okopnyi

This project is dedicated to the investigation of the collaborative aspect of video production and editing

Rebecca Nedregotten Strand

This PhD-project examines how the radio archive of a national Norwegian broadcaster, NRK, can be developed for use in location based digital interpretation of natural- and cultural history

Shuliang Dong

Hybrid Coalition Logic.

Silje Nygaard

The thesis contributes to the scholarly literature on expulsion-based boundary work.

Than Htut Soe

Better Video Workflows via Real-Time Collaboration and AI Techniques in Television and New Media.

24.03.2021