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Anne Lise og Jacob
Bybanekaos og parlamentarisme: Statsvitenskapelige perspektiver på den politiske krisen i Bergen (14.12.2021)
On Monday December 6, Professor Anne Lise Fimreite and Professor Jacob Aars met commentator in Bergens Tidende, Morten Myksvoll, for an academic conversation on forms of governance in Norwegian municipalities.
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Why are We Acting Against the Pandemic, but Not Against the Climate Crisis? (08.12.2021)
“We must equip ourselves to understand how people react and take in information when something new, unknown, and dangerous hits us”, says professor Brita Ytre-Arne, head of the Norwegian-Danish interdisciplinary project Media Use in Crisis Situations (MUCS).
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Visiting scholar Julia Jakob at the Media Use Research Group (06.12.2021)
This semester the Media Use Research Group has had its first visiting scholar since the start of the pandemic.
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New article on News Use in COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown (06.12.2021)
Brita Ytre-Arne and Hallvard Moe paper Doomscrolling, Monitoring and Avoiding: News Use in COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown published in Journalism Studies
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Project ended, but more research (06.12.2021)
The MeCIn project has ended
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Successful NAF Conference 2021! (03.12.2021)
On 25-26 November, the annual conference of the Norwegian Anthropological Society was held in Bergen. See pictures from the conference here!
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New technologies and the future of the human (03.12.2021)
New PhD course dedicated to an investigation of the imaginary projects of technoscience. Candidates of social anthropology and related disciplines are welcome to apply!
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The Pandemic Centre starts interdiciplinary course to learn from the Covid-19 pandemic (01.12.2021)
In january the Pandemic Centre will offer a two-weeks course for students to learn from the Covid-19 pandemic. The course is open to both PhD-students and Master students from all diciplines at the university.
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3,5 million NOK grant to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) (22.11.2021)
HCI got it's application for funding granted and will be awarded 3,5 million NOK. The money will go to the project Enabling equipment for research excellence in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
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Media Futures work package travel to Oslo (19.11.2021)
"Now we have lots of new ideas about how we can work on fundamentally applicable research to create innovative insights", says work package co-leader Hallvard Moe.
Johan Elfving, Ronya Solber, Jakob Grandin
The Collaboratory win prize for excellence in higher education (15.11.2021)
On Thursday November 11th the Collaboratory was awared the Uglepris, UiB's award for excellence in higher education. – It is important that we dare to think about our role as educator in new ways, says Jakob Olof Grandin, leader of The Collaboratory.
Job opening
Postdoc on governance of climate and energy transformation (10.11.2021)
A three year position as postdoc at CET is available. Deadline 1 February 2022.
Collaborative futures
Coordinator positions for student-led course and conference (19.10.2021)
Are you a student and want to work with a student-led conference or course in Sustainable Innovation at UiB? Apply before 07.11.2021 and join our team at UiB Collaboratory!
Trond Høyde
Seminar regarding The National Budget (15.10.2021)
Anantha Divakaruni
Best paper award at the Cryptocurrency Research Conference 2021 (14.10.2021)
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A Central Concept in Institutional Theory (13.10.2021)
Per Lægreid and Tom Christensen write about "The Logic of Appropriateness" in new book celebrating the work of James G. March
Cover, Design Issues, Volume 37, Issue 4. The MIT Press
The Rhetoric of Digital Presentation Tools in Politics (11.10.2021)
Professor Jens E. Kjeldsen writes in this autumn's issue of the American journal Design Issues about "The Rhetoric of Digital Presentation Tools in Politics: The Case of Visual Knowledge in President Obama's Enhanced State Of the Union"
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Media Use in Crisis Situations project has started (01.10.2021)
The new project “Media Use in Crisis Situations: Resolving Information Paradoxes, Comparing Climate Change and the COVID-19 Pandemic” has started.

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