News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

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Ivarsflaten and Bjånesøy in The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion (31.08.2020)

This handbook bring together accomplished scholars who study one or more aspect of electoral persuasion. Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Lise Bjånesøy contribute with the chapter "How and Why the Populist Radical Right Persuades Citizens" written jointly with Scott Blinder.

It Pays to be Nice: The Benefits of Cooperating in Markets (31.08.2020)

A recent article in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, using data from the Citizen Lab, finds that mutual partner choice enables cooperators to outperform free riders.

Screenshot of article published in Digital Journalism.

Disentangling the Influence of Recommender Attributes and News-Story Attributes (31.08.2020)

A new publication by Erik Knudsen and Mikael Poul Johannesson used data collected through the Norwegian Citizen Panel to explore what lies behind our decisions to read and share news stories on social media.

Tuesday lunch seminars are back as webinars (28.08.2020)

DIGSSCORE's weekly lunch seminars will be held as webinars this fall. You are welcome to attend the first one on Tuesday September 1.

Who is (un)protected by the law? (21.08.2020)

– Migration is an important field of law because legal status makes an enormous difference. If you have status as ‘citizen’ you are protected by the law in a completely different way than refugees and migrants.

Midler til samarbeidsprosjekt innen Globale samfunnsutfordringer (05.08.2020)

Globale samfunnsutfordringer har avsatt midler til stimulering av faglig tverrfakultært samarbeid i 2020. Søknadsfrist 24. september 2020.