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A new project on databased methods for analysing polarisation and information dissemination in the blogosphere has received funding from the Norwegian Research Council's VERDIKT programme.

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Of Authorship and Originality: Reclaiming Copyright in Support of Creative Collaboration in the Digital Environment (OOR) is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together principal investigators and post-doctoral researchers of the Institute for Information Law (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Department of Information Science and Media Studies (University of Bergen, Norway) and the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom).

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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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Hallvard Moe's postdoctoral project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Moe aims to assess how online media participation facilitates structural changes of the public sphere in modern democracies.

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DigiCult is an internationally networked research group that is based in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. The group is led by Professor Jostein Gripsrud.