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Off Center – Season 4
Listen to Off Center season 4 (11.06.2025)
Introducing ALGOPOD.
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Postdoctoral fellow: Citizens, AI and news experiences (26.05.2025)
The IMAGINE project is looking for an ambitious scholar interested in researching user experiences with AI in the news media.
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Spotlighting the challenges of journalism in Brussels (29.04.2025)
Truth is at stake, and journalism is on the front lines – can it still defend democracy in an age of artificial intelligence and disinformation? That is the question the University of Bergen and the Media Cluster Norway are raising when they organize a the seminar in Brussels.
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Prepare team visits Södertörn University (28.04.2025)
In March/April 2025, the Prepare project team visited Södertörn University for three days of seminars, paper workshops and collaboration.
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New network for humour literacy and the public sphere (25.04.2025)
Postdoctor Özlem Demirkol-Tønnesen will represent UiB in the HUMLIT network, which will study humour literacy across Europe with controbutions from 20+ Partner institutions.
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DIGISCREENS at GEMINI-SCAPES final conference i Rome (23.04.2025)
Project members present two papers at the Rome conference: On Gender diversity revalued - a comparison of the implementation of the AVSMD in Lithuania, Spain, and Sweden, and on French banlieues and female identities on-screen.
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Four UiB candidates shortlisted in the AI centre competition (09.04.2025)
The University of Bergen is represented by four of the 19 finalists in the national competition to establish new AI centres. Discover the candidates here.
Barbara Wasson, Marija Slavkovik, Andreas Opdahl
Three Infomedia initiatives in the final for national AI center (07.04.2025)
We are delighted to announce that three initiatives affiliated with our department are among the 19 selected initiatives across the country that have advanced to the final round in the competition to become national research centers for artificial intelligence. “This is great news,” says Andreas Opdahl, head of one of the initiatives.
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Socially Empowered AI Research – SEAIR expands the AI research horizon (26.03.2025)
”Since so much of AI research is driven by commercial forces, societal impact often becomes an afterthought, rather than something that has to be studied on a fundamental level”
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Emilija Gagrcin is awarded DKNVS' prize for young researchers (28.02.2025)
The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters' awards are given to young researchers in Norway who have documented outstanding talent, originality and effort, and who have achieved exceptionally good results within their field.
Marija Slavkovik ved Institutt for Informasjons- og medievitenskap
New AI breakthroughs show that bigger isn’t always better (20.02.2025)
The success of DeepSeek shows an interesting example where funding is the means to research and innovation and not directly the end goal.
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1.5 million for research on children's media use and algorithms in the family (19.02.2025)
Researchers Hallvard Moe, Emilija Gagrcin and Andreas Roaldsnes receive over 1.5 million from the Norwegian Media Authority for the projects MedBarn and "The family as a source of media literacy"
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New Research on Climate News: 'Something About the Climate is Hard to Put into Words'" (17.02.2025)
News about climate change can seem intangible and difficult to grasp. Two new studies reveal how we understand and interpret climate news.
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Seven EU-funded postdocs to Bergen (12.02.2025)
The University of Bergen (UiB) will host another seven international research fellows after a very successful application round in this year’s competition for MSCA funding from the EU. The grants will fund the researchers' stay at UiB for two years.
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Can artificial intelligence strengthen local democracy? Yes, claims professor and seeks support from the Research Council of Norway (24.01.2025)
Professor Andreas Opdahl, one of Norway's leading experts in artificial intelligence (AI), is spearheading an ambitious initiative: Insight, a research center focused on AI in local democratic ecosystems. With a clear objective to develop technology that enhances local democracy, researchers and industry partners are now seeking funding from the Research Council of Norway.
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Awarded for the AI research article of the decade (06.01.2025)
Marija Slavkovik, Head of Department and Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Information and Media Studies (Infomedia), was recently awarded the “Publication of the Decade” award at the NORA Annual Conference 2024.
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Three articles from CET in Nature-journals (11.12.2024)
This autumn, CET researchers had three articles accepted for publication in Nature-journals. – This is a result of a dedicated focus on quality in publication over time, says CET Director Håvard Haarstad.
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It's hard to make AI behave! (03.12.2024)
The 12th UiB AI seminar gathered researchers, students and other interested to hear about the challenges of adapting systems of artificial intelligence to human values and goals. There seems to be no quick fix.

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