News archive for Department of Information Science and Media Studies

The success of DeepSeek shows an interesting example where funding is the means to research and innovation and not directly the end goal.

News about climate change can seem intangible and difficult to grasp. Two new studies reveal how we understand and interpret climate news.

Professor Andreas Opdahl, one of Norway's leading experts in artificial intelligence (AI), is spearheading an ambitious initiative: Insight, a research center focused on AI in local democratic ecosystems. With a clear objective to develop technology that enhances local democracy, researchers and industry partners are now seeking funding from the Research Council of Norway.

This autumn, CET researchers had three articles accepted for publication in Nature-journals. – This is a result of a dedicated focus on quality in publication over time, says CET Director Håvard Haarstad.

«I was interested in finding out if queer boys and boys with a minority background used social media differently than the majority, and found that they stand out a bit,» UiB researcher John Magnus Dahl says.

The IMAGINE project has an open PhD position for candidates interested in researching people's attitudes toward new media technologies using statistical analysis.

Associate professor Erik Knudsen won the Best Paper Award at this year's conference with Norsk Medieforskerlag

How do we imagine artificial intelligence? Researchers from Infomedia have received support from the Research Council of Norway (RCN) to explore this timely question.