News archive for Faculty of Humanities

Cinema sign: The World is Temporarily Closed

UiB researcher pens editorial about Covid-19 (29.06.2020)

Bruna De Marchi, researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) at UiB, has written the editorial in the first special issue of the journal Culture e Studi del Sociale.

New method developed to analyse social media (26.06.2020)

Do you know where the personal data you leave behind in apps and on social media is used? A new method for analyzing data developed by Professor Jill Walker Rettberg helps identify precisely that.

The complex system of facial expressions in sign language (26.06.2020)

In the near future deaf people and hearing people may be able to communicate in real time, using automatic translation systems based on computer vision technologies. Now researchers are carefully studying facial expressions used in sign language to express both grammatical information and emotions.

Abstract representation of multilingualism

What anthropology can tell us about multilingualism (24.06.2020)

Anthropological research on the lifestyle of traditional small-scale societies sheds light on the history of multilingualism and its role in the past of the contemporary western world.

Traffic sign illustrating circular economy

New publication in the MAGIC project takes a critical look at circular economy (11.06.2020)

In a recent article co-authored with Mario Giampietro, UiB professor Silvio Funtowicz criticizes the circular economy concept and proposes a different approach to sustainable growth.

This picture is a metaphoric representation of awareness by looking.

Be aware of languages (04.06.2020)

Language is everywhere. We are surrounded by it, use it to express ourselves, to think, to learn, to act, to communicate. Language is therefore one of our highest goods. This good is not just one language but a multitude of different languages, dialects, accents, varieties and registers.