Projects

Research at Infomedia

Research at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies is both diverse and interdisciplinary. Our research projects range from large EU- and NRC-funded project to individually run post-doctoral projects. Many of the projects are run by the research groups, and involve collaborations with internal as well as external and international partners.

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MediaFutures

SFI MediaFutures: Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology and Innovation researches user groups, UX, content production, language and accessability

PREPARE

PREPARE is a research project funded by the ERC. We are developing a new theory about how citizens connect to the public.

Better Video Workflows: a cooperation between UiB and VizRt

Can you make video-editing a collaborative effort? And is it possible to use AI-techniques in editing? These are two goals in the project Better Video Workflows, which is a cooperative effort between The Interaction Research Group and VizRt.

THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE IN SCANDINAVIAN PUBLIC SPHERES 1970-2015

Media Use

Through a four year project funded by The Research Council of Norway, a group of media researchers will find out how citizens in Norway connect to, or disconnect from, the public.

ViSmedia – Visual Surveillance Technologies and Journalism

Interdisciplinary team of researchers investigates opportunities and dilemmas with visual surveillance technologies in the news media.

Games and Transgressive Aesthetics

The project "Games and Transgressive Aesthetics" explores controversial game content theoretically and through qualitative empirical studies that stress how such content is experienced by players while playing games.

Viz Story - Publish your story anywhere first

UiB to participate in world-leading media innovation project

With support from the Research Council of Norway, the graphics company Vizrt and the University of Bergen are developing a world-leading tool for online video editing.

MUCS - Media use in crisis situations

MUCS studies media use amongst Norwegian citizens in relation to two complex societal crisis situations: the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.

09.10.2023