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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.
Illustrerende utklipp fra Lekves artikkel i klassekampen
"Labour struggles in the new world of work" (26.02.2020)
Does internationalization of the labour market pose a threat to the Norwegian model? In this article, Lekve examines this question through an analysis of the strike in Norse Production during the autumn of 2017.
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.
The social impact of the renewable energy transition (12.02.2020)
In her master's project Amber Nordholm is looking at the social impact of the renewable energy transition through a case study in Portugal.
Research fellow Mehri S. Agai
New research fellow (11.02.2020)
Will study youth and digital detox.
Money Talks Professor Ragnhild Muriaas in Malawi during political campaign
Patriarchal structures an obstacle to women in politics in many countries (27.01.2020)
– Most often the priviliged are the winners in politics, and who is priviliged depends on gender, says professor Ragnhild Muriaas, who has lead the research project Money Talks.
Stacks of coins of differeing height
Circulation at the Top: Elites, Social Mobility and Intergenerational Capital Conversion (27.01.2020)
Despite calls for bridging the gap between the sociology of social class and the sociology of elites, there are few examples where this actually has been done. This article seeks to do so by applying approaches and statistical techniques commonly used in studies of social mobility in an analysis of circulation mobility in elite formations.
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.
Hjellbrekke og Korsnes
Field Analysis, MCA and Class Specific Analysis: Analysing Structural Homologies Between, and Variety Within Subfields in the Norwegian Field of Power (13.01.2020)
In this chapter, Hjellbrekke and Korsnes discusses how the homology thesis can be investigated statistically by turning to two variants of geometrical data analysis: MCA and class specific MCA (Le Roux og Rouanet 2010). In particular, class specific MCA (herafter CSA ) is a methodological innovation that allows us not only to explore the relation between the field of power and its subfields, but... Read more
Verdenskart med flyruter
Youth Employment Mobility – experiencing (un)certainties in Europe (07.01.2020)
Taking the risk-choice-freedom-paradox as theoretical starting point and drawing on empirical research from the international HORIZON 2020 research project on youth mobility – MOVE – we scrutinise young people’s general international mobility experiences and, specifically, the interrelatedness of risks, choices and freedom under mobility.
Energethics debatt
How do Norwegian energy companies handle responsibility abroad? (19.12.2019)
Social anthropologists highlight how Norwegian energy companies handle their responsibility abroad.
Cityscape
Sustainability in an urbanising world (19.12.2019)
The future is urban – and the future is already here!
CET201
Join our Sustainable Innovation course (13.12.2019)
Sustainable development, climate change and energy transformation call for innovation in all sectors of society. In University of Bergen's course in Sustainable Innovation, you will create innovative solutions to real sustainability challenges.
Two women presenting infront of crowd
New ways of exploring urban development (10.12.2019)
With prospects of an extensive transformation of the biggest cargo-port on the Norwegian west coast into a sustainable urban mixed business and residential area, researchers and students from CET were invited to give their perspectives on sustainable urbanism at BYLAB.
Illustration of Norwegian flag with vector and shadow
Egalitarian ideologies on the move: Changing care practices and gender norms in Norway (10.12.2019)
This article explores the complexities and ambiguities in Norwegian families’ interaction with the public childcare system.
Picture of Susanne Bygnes
Not All Syrian Doctors Become Taxi Drivers (03.12.2019)
Bygnes with a new open access publication in Journal of International Migration and Integration: Not All Syrian Doctors Become Taxi Drivers: Stagnation and Continuity Among Highly Educated Syrians in Norway
Bryggen mirrored
Call for abstracts BISC2020: Beyond sustainable development (03.12.2019)
Call for abstracts is now open for Bergen International Student Conference 2020: Beyond Sustainable Development. Join us in Bergen on March 23–24th 2020 to discuss the pressing issues of our times.
The famous Shanghai skyline seen from behind.
Urban Enclaving: Grant enables comparative research project in China (29.11.2019)
The research project “Urban Enclaving Futures” has received a new grant to establish a comparative research component in China.

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