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"Hvordan kan vi bruke automatiske metoder til å strukturere og utvinne data fra ustrukturert norsk tekst?"

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Hvordan bruker politikere og partier sosiale medier som retorisk arena i valgkamper? I mitt prosjekt vil jeg studere hvordan politikere bruker Twitter, Facebook, Instagram og Youtube i kampen om velgerne.

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In my project, I want use the hybrid logic and logic with questions to describe rational choices. And extending the single-agent system into the multi-agent setting, and consider the problems of decision-making by agents and even communities, including communications between agents.

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What can Ludvig Holberg teach us about rhetoric and conflict resolution? Holberg is in a Nordic context, a key source of perspectives on conflict.

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Samia Touileb participates in the NTAP (Networks of Texts and People) project. The project is developing methods and tools to detect, analyse and visualize the distribution, flow and development of knowledge and opinions across online social networks. NTAP is funded by the Norwegian Research Council, VERDIKT program, and runs from January 2012 – July 2015.

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Linn Cathrin Lorgen is working on a PhD project on news broadcasts aimed at children and youth in Norwegian television. The project explores children and youth’s reception of this type of media text, on the basis of NRK's news broadcast for children between the ages of 8 and 12, "Supernytt".

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Katherine Duarte's PhD project is entitled "Communicating climate science in the media: The challenge of dealing with controversies and uncertainties in the coverage of climate change". Duarte's thesis is part of the research project "Climate Crossroads: Towards Precautionary Practices: Politics, Media and Climate Change".

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The project “Norwegian Welfare on the Agenda” is a case study that examines how information from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration, «NAV», is presented to the public, how NAV is covered in the media and the relation between the media coverage and the public’s perception.

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In her project ”Journalistic Multimediality and Public Deliberation”, Nina Kvalheim will be exploring the relationship between multimedia news production and the newspapers role in the public debate, in particular looking at the relationship between the implementation of new business models, new digital publishing platforms, journalism and democracy.

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In her project "When Domestic Space Meets Imperial Space" Pauline Ann Hoath will be exploring interacting histories of photography, culture and politics. Despite challenges made in the 1970s, particularly within French history writing, to include different kinds of sources when writing histories, little has changed since then.

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Nærland's project "The role of music in the cultural public sphere: An analysis of music's impact on the formation of political opinion" combines theoretical perspectives from public sphere theory and the sociology of music with empirical studies of aesthetical practice in musical genres and of taste-formations in political communities.

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In her PhD ”Controversial Landscaping: The Politics of Nature in Contemporary Visual Culture”, Vik addresses representations of nature in visual culture. The thesis explores the connection between politics and aesthetics, focusing on both immediate presentations of natural phenomena, as well as the aesthetization /staging of trauma and controversial images.

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Stavelin's project “Models in Computational Journalism” combines methods and theories from the fields of information science and media studies. The practice, products and context of computational journalism in/from Norwegian newsroom are studied. Stavelin also develops and evaluates experimental prototypes of algorithmic approaches to the journalism practice.

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Truls Pedersen's project "A modal logical framework for social software" uses formal methods (particularly multi-agent modal logic) to analyse social software. Here, Pedersen expresses concepts which are central in social software with model logic. The term "social software" may refer computer software where people execute social acts, like Facebook, Twitter or eBay.

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Aleksander Krzywinski's PhD research aims to explore the challenges facing interaction design for large screens. The research focus on three case studies, where multi-touch, tangible interaction and gesture tracking are the main input modes, and their consequences are evaluated by user studies.

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Dette er et empirisk forskningsprosjekt som tar utgangspunkt i dybdeintervju med brukere av to sosiale nettverkstjenester: LinkedIn og Facebook. Prosjektet undersøker hvorfor og hvordan ulike grupper bruker sosiale nettverkstjenester, med spesielt fokus på brukererfaringer og holdninger til tillit når man deler informasjon med hverandre på nett.

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Christian Raspotnig is conducting research on how safety and security can be modeled in the early requirements activities in the development of information systems. This is done in ReqSec project, which is a joint project between the University of Bergen and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology financed by the Norwegian Research Council.

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The objective of Rolf Halse’s PhD project is to examine the representation of Muslim characters in the US television serial 24, and to investigate how different interpretative communities read and perceive Muslim characters. Hereunder, Halse studies how the portrayal of Muslims changes from the early to the latter seasons of 24.

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Sørensen's doctoral thesis “Remembering a Different Norway – Norwegian war films and questions of mediated remembrance,” is centered on the corpus of Norwegian films chronicling World War II. As the title implies, the focus of this study will be the relationship between remembrance and war films within a Norwegian perspective.

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Tor Gjøsæter's PhD project aims to shed light on how the users perceive AR (augmented reality) content and how content creators can use AR content to enhance and augment the user experience of traditional print media with digital content. The PhD follows a design science approach by combining a user‐centered research process.