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Solveig Kristine Bortne Høegh-Krohn joins the PREPARE research team to study the elderly and the public sphere.
Compared to many other countries, Norwegian readers do not shy away from news about politics. This and other insights from the Reuters Digital News Report and its Norwegian sub-report were presented by Janne Bjørgan at Fritt Ord.
New paper by Hallvard Moe, Torgeir Uberg Nærland and Brita Ytre-Arne discusses people’s news experiences before, during and after societal crisis situations.
As part of the NordMedia conference 2023 in Bergen, PREPARE organized a panel on the project's theoretical ambitions.
New PREPARE postdoctoral researcher Özlem Demirkol Tønnesen explains turkish political twitter.
Jens Kjeldsen argues that much of what is considered traditional communication – such as lectures and presentations – is invisible, because it takes place in forums that are not public to everyone.
Young people struggle with permanent online connection that is associated with their generation. Ph.d fellow Mehri Agai has studied teenagers’ affective relationship to connectivity and disconnectivity, and how it is socioculturally influenced by the media, family, and peers.
Member of the Research Group Ida Andersen takes a closer look at the Children's New Year's speech from 2022 and discusses how children's speeches can and should be evaluated.
Norsk Medietidskrift (NMT) has conferred the Research Paper of the Year award to ph.d fellow Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus.
In the end of May Infomedia signed a memorandum of understanding with units at Dublin City University and Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City.
In this podcast, keen mediators and experienced professionals share their best tips on how you can work with mediation. Use their advice and expertise as a tool in your own communication work!
The Media Teacher Seminar was May 10th, and took place in Grieghallen in Bergen. The seminar's themes revolved around "New technology in the classroom" and "Courage and freedom of speech".
Member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Jens E. Kjeldsen, as well as Mette Paust-Andersen and Elisabet Kolbrun Hansen, took nine high school students to the Nordic speech festival in Denmark.
The memorial prize was awarded by group member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Jens E. Kjeldsen.
The public debate is commonly criticised for lacking deliberation. Therefore, the group member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Ida Vikøren Andersen, argues that we need a better understanding of the rhetorical modes occurring instead of deliberation
In this paper, group member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Ida Vikøren Andersen, discusses rhetorical studies’ contribution to the study of environmental communication.
“What is missing in the selective exposure theory is the fact that most likely people are reading a lot of information that they don’t agree with. Which is why I am shifting the attention to that,” Erik Knudsen says.
- 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.

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