News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

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.

Record funding for partnerships in the South (22.12.2020)

Building on years of collaboration with institutions of research and higher education, the University of Bergen ends year with funding for a record number of new projects with partner institutions in the South.

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.

Good Public Governance in a Global Pandemic (16.12.2020)

Per Lægreid with chapter in special IIAS-report on the public governance of the COVID-19 pandemic

image of a crowd in front of a stage with bicycles on the roof.

The twin transition: Digitisation and low-carbon energy transitions (15.12.2020)

Digitisation enables the electrification of mobility. How can we ensure this transition is just? CET researcher Siddharth Sareen examines how digitisation can enable socially inclusive energy transitions in a new EU project.

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten ERC Consolidator Grant Citicen lab

The Politics of Inclusion (09.12.2020)

Professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten receives the ERC Consolidator Grant for the project "INCLUDE". The project addresses one of the most fundamental challenges of our time; how to live peacefully together as diverse societies.

Four UiB researchers receive top European grants (09.12.2020)

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, Nele Meckler, Ragnhild Muriaas, and Inga Berre have been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant.

Discrimination against Roma: Evidence from two survey experiments in Norway (03.12.2020)

In this recently published article, Runa Falck presents data showing that an individual perceived to be affiliated with the Roma minority is likely to be at a considerable disadvantage in Norwegian society today.

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.