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With today's technology, the production of fake content, including "deepfakes", has become easier, while simultaneously more challenging to detect. - Soon it will be nearly impossible to distinguish real from manipulation with the naked eye, warns Duc Tien Dang Nguyen.

The introduction of new automated technologies promises to help improve the sustainability of the maritime industry, yet this trend is also likely to affect the numbers of people employed at sea and change the nature of their role. EU-Research spoke to our own Professor Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard about her work in looking at the impact of automation on the maritime industry and its workforce.

Georg Picot’s WAGEREG project has come to an end.

Professors Ragnhild Muriaas and Yvette Peters have published a new article in European journal of Political Research. They use survey experiments for both the Norwegian Citizen Panel and the Panel of Elected Representatives.

Postdoctoral fellow in the Bergen Media Use Group Katharina Wuropulos presents her research in a seminar on multicultural recruitment.

Brooke Wilkerson defended her PhD thesis on 19.12.2023 at the University of Bergen. The thesis title is "Systems approaches to sustainability: Innovation and social-ecological-technological systems.

«The efforts of professor Trond Petersen has been really important in developing research collaboration and student exchange between Norwegian universities and the University of Berkeley,» says Jan Erik Askildsen, dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Bergen Media Use Research Group is looking forward to welcoming three international visiting professors in 2024; Joëlle Swart, Tim Kormelink and Anna Feigenbaum.