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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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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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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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'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.