News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

Afternoon rush-hour on Accra´s Circle Road

Finding ways to move through Accra´s traffic (17.12.2021)

For decades Accra´s traffic has been a huge problem for the city´s development. Long traffic jams in rush hours, road accidents and poor travel conditions for everyone that moves within Accra is a well-known issue in Ghana and a conversation topic for Accra´s inhabitants - like rain and the weather are a common conversation topic in Bergen, Norway.

New OceanStates blogpost! (16.12.2021)

Read the latest updates on the OceanStates front in our research blog.

Why are We Acting Against the Pandemic, but Not Against the Climate Crisis? (08.12.2021)

“We must equip ourselves to understand how people react and take in information when something new, unknown, and dangerous hits us”, says professor Brita Ytre-Arne, head of the Norwegian-Danish interdisciplinary project Media Use in Crisis Situations (MUCS).

Visiting scholar Julia Jakob at the Media Use Research Group (06.12.2021)

This semester the Media Use Research Group has had its first visiting scholar since the start of the pandemic.

New article on News Use in COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown (06.12.2021)

Brita Ytre-Arne and Hallvard Moe paper Doomscrolling, Monitoring and Avoiding: News Use in COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown published in Journalism Studies

illustration photo person with smartphone

Project ended, but more research (06.12.2021)

The MeCIn project has ended

Successful NAF Conference 2021! (03.12.2021)

On 25-26 November, the annual conference of the Norwegian Anthropological Society was held in Bergen. See pictures from the conference here!

New technologies and the future of the human (03.12.2021)

New PhD course dedicated to an investigation of the imaginary projects of technoscience. Candidates of social anthropology and related disciplines are welcome to apply!

The Pandemic Centre starts interdiciplinary course to learn from the Covid-19 pandemic (01.12.2021)

In january the Pandemic Centre will offer a two-weeks course for students to learn from the Covid-19 pandemic. The course is open to both PhD-students and Master students from all diciplines at the university.