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Award winners
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.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BSRS 2020 was organized as a virtual research school
Virtual PhD course a success (09.09.2020)
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BSRS 2020 was organized as a virtual research school.
Hallvard Moe og Brita Ytre-Arne
Moe and Ytre-Arne leads new project on media experiences (25.06.2020)
The project is a part of the new Centre for Research-based Innovation (SFI)
Virtual Reality
What are the prospects of immersive journalism? (13.05.2020)
How will news stories be told with new technologies such as 360 degree video, virtual reality and augmented reality? What are the opportunities for new, groundbreaking stories, and what ethical issues are put into in flux? That is amongst the questions asked by researchers at the University of Bergen in new book by Routledge.
Front page of Political Studies
Moe & Holst with article on deliberative systems theory (04.05.2020)
The article reviews studies of online democracy in Norway and argues for a more nuanced theory.
Brita Ytre-Arne
Brita Ytre-Arne awarded professorship. Congratulations! (04.05.2020)
Ung gutt spiller dataspill
New research project on what it means to be a gamer (04.05.2020)
Researching young men, gaming and identity
MediaFutures Christoph Trattner portrett.
Will improve your digital diet (06.03.2020)
Christoph Trattner actually wanted to be a chef. Now, he wants to help you avoid digital junk food.
Katarina Kroken Ingvild Hagen og Kristin Mjelde, masterstudenter på MA i medie- og interaksjonsdesign Håvard Tveit, Chief Executive Officer, Everviz
Media City Bergen companies pitch ideas for master projects (12.02.2020)
In Media City Bergen, master students can collaborate with companies such as TV 2 Digital, NRK, Vimond, Bergens Tidene, Mjoll and Everviz.
Research fellow Mehri S. Agai
New research fellow (11.02.2020)
Will study youth and digital detox.
Bilde av boken med datamaskin, mobil og avis rundt.
New book on media use and democracy (15.01.2020)
Public connection in, the informed citizen out.
Miriam Metzger
Miriam Metzger on credibility (25.11.2019)
The Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture (Infomedia) in co-operation with DIGSSCORE invited to an open talk on credibility by professor Miriam Metzger (UC Santa Barbara) on the 3rd of December.
ICARE
– You look happy, that makes me happy! (21.11.2019)
Students at the Master in Media and Interaction Design, UiB, presented seven prototypes for human-robot interaction in health, teaching, navigation and recycling.
Donald Trump Election Win 2016
New publications from the MeCIn-project (12.11.2019)
Ytre-Arne, Moe and Nærland with new articles in European Journal of Communication and Journalism.
Machine Learning Attacker
Adversarial Machine Learning (06.11.2019)
In this I2S seminar series lecture, Ambra Demontis will talk about how to attack machine learning systems as well as how to defense against those attacks.
Media Futures christoff Trattner spaserer i gangen med robot
30 mill Euro plan to develop responsible media technology (23.10.2019)
Researchers at Media City Bergen and key media partners seek to establish a centre for developing responsible media technology. – As the robots enter the editorial rooms, the need to guard issues like ethics and data protection is urgent, says centre leader.
STUD-ENT
Student innovation in knowledge clusters (21.06.2019)
Two UiB projects, based in separate knowledge clusters, have made it through the eye of the needle and been awarded NOK 1 million each in the Research Council of Norway’s STUD-ENT innovation funding scheme.
Media Futures David Carrol
– Norwegians need to guard their private data, says the professor who made Facebook buckle. (19.06.2019)
David Carroll sued Cambridge Analytica and won. Now, the professor who made Facebook buckle visits Future Week in Bergen. He asks Norwegians to wake up.

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