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Article on algorithm-driven front pages wins prize (26.05.2023)
Norsk Medietidskrift (NMT) has conferred the Research Paper of the Year award to ph.d fellow Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus.
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Infomedia signs memorandum of understanding (25.05.2023)
In the end of May Infomedia signed a memorandum of understanding with units at Dublin City University and Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City.
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Forskning til Folket! (24.05.2023)
In this podcast, keen mediators and experienced professionals share their best tips on how you can work with mediation. Use their advice and expertise as a tool in your own communication work!
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Master's theses in geography 2023 (24.05.2023)
We have two deadlines this year: 1 June and 1 December. Congratulations to all who completed the degree this year!
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Jens E. Kjeldsen spoke for the Norwegian media educators during Media Days (23.05.2023)
The Media Teacher Seminar was May 10th, and took place in Grieghallen in Bergen. The seminar's themes revolved around "New technology in the classroom" and "Courage and freedom of speech".
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Nordic speech festival (22.05.2023)
Member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Jens E. Kjeldsen, as well as Mette Paust-Andersen and Elisabet Kolbrun Hansen, took nine high school students to the Nordic speech festival in Denmark.
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The EU’s asylum policy: critical view from an advocacy leader (22.05.2023)
Catherine Woollard, Director of the European Council for Refugees and Exiles, visited the students of EUR105.
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Irene Kinunda Alfriyie received the Sjur Holsen memorial prize (21.05.2023)
The memorial prize was awarded by group member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Jens E. Kjeldsen.
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Visit From Australian Ambassador (16.05.2023)
“The University of Bergen has very strong credentials in our part of the world,” said Australian international relations expert, Ian Kemish.
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WATCH: Emerging clean energy technologies (16.05.2023)
Did you miss Dhayalan Velauthapillai's BEL Lunch seminar presenting on research on nanomaterials for solar cells, Hydrogen and energy storage applications at Western Norway University of Applied Science? Watch it here!
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'Well, That's Just My Opinion': The Principle of Expression and the Public Debate (15.05.2023)
The public debate is commonly criticised for lacking deliberation. Therefore, the group member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Ida Vikøren Andersen, argues that we need a better understanding of the rhetorical modes occurring instead of deliberation
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Rhetorical citizenship and the environment (15.05.2023)
In this paper, group member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Ida Vikøren Andersen, discusses rhetorical studies’ contribution to the study of environmental communication.
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Erik Knudsen Wants Media Researchers to Focus More on Thresholds (15.05.2023)
“What is missing in the selective exposure theory is the fact that most likely people are reading a lot of information that they don’t agree with. Which is why I am shifting the attention to that,” Erik Knudsen says.
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Podcast: Electric cars – a not so green transition (15.05.2023)
PhD candidate Devyn Remme on the social and environmental consequences of the transition to electric cars from a global perspective.
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New OceanStates blog post! (10.05.2023)
Read the latest updates on the OceanStates front in our research blog.
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The Arctic Is a «Living Laboratory» According to Aaron Spitzer (04.05.2023)
Assistant professor at UiB, Aaron Spitzer says his «life’s work» has involved seeking to understand, and trying somehow to be useful to, Arctic peoples and places.
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— We are living of and for the students (02.05.2023)
The students at the Faculty of Social Sciences shall be seen and followed up. — This works, says the dean, Jan Erik Askildsen.