News archive for Department of Information Science and Media Studies

22 July 2011 at Ten: Commemoration and Commitment

High-level summit at the University of Bergen: Global counter-terrorism after 22 July (20.08.2021)

What can society and global organizations do better to stop right-wing extremist radicalization and terrorist content online?

Jens E. Kjeldsen - The Rhetorical Power of Images (17.06.2021)

Professor Jens E. Kjeldsen has delivered a keynote at the Association for Visual Pedagogies (AVP) 2021 Conference

CEDAS conference 2021 (20.04.2021)

Does your work involve data science? Are you curious about research in data science in Bergen? The CEDAS conference 2021 will be a 2-day event featuring talks and discussion by leading international scientists and local experts on the interaction between data science, statistics, machine learning, and AI, as well as their applications in science and society.

User-centered Investigation of Popularity Bias in Recommender Systems (14.04.2021)

Creating trust through pandemic-rhetoric (18.03.2021)

How does the health-authorities choose to communicate when the world is experiencing a global crisis? This will be the main topic in a new rhetoric-study with researchers from Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

China’s role in Africa: What now? (05.03.2021)

Over the past decade, China has emerged as a large actor on the African continent – primarily through trade, investment and as provider of development finance. But China is increasingly also playing a more direct political role.

New research project about Covid-19, climate change and media use (08.01.2021)

Researchers from The University of Bergen have received funding for the project “Media Use in Crisis Situations: Resolving Information Paradoxes, Comparing Climate Change and the COVID-19 Pandemic”.

New book about tech giants and news consumption (23.12.2020)

Nordicom is out with a new book. “Silicon Valley och makten över medierna” is written by Carl-Gustav Linden where he deals with the tech giants’ power over our news consumption.

Seven new positions at MediaFutures (18.12.2020)

Activities at MediaFutures are increasing and the center has just announced seven new positions. The positions in questions are all recruitement positions within media studies and information science.

AI students win best paper award (01.12.2020)

Infomedia master students presented report on the limitations of the state-of-the-art in bias mitigation. Their project report was awarded the best paper award at Norwegian Informatics Conference.

Virtual PhD course a success (09.09.2020)

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BSRS 2020 was organized as a virtual research school.

Moe and Ytre-Arne leads new project on media experiences (25.06.2020)

The project is a part of the new Centre for Research-based Innovation (SFI)

What are the prospects of immersive journalism? (13.05.2020)

How will news stories be told with new technologies such as 360 degree video, virtual reality and augmented reality? What are the opportunities for new, groundbreaking stories, and what ethical issues are put into in flux? That is amongst the questions asked by researchers at the University of Bergen in new book by Routledge.