MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS AT THE DEPARTMENT

Climate Crossroads. Towards Precautionary Practices: Politics, Media and Climate Change
The Climate Crossroads project studies the challenges faced by key policy makers and communicators when attempting to transform climate knowledge into climate action, and how communication and interaction between media and political actors can contribute to a precautionary general public and preventive measures when it comes to climate change. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council. More here

Social Aspects in Software Development
This project studies how software developers are enabled or hindered in their work due to social factors, including organisation, collaboration and interaction structures, knowledge, motivation, job satisfaction, empowerment and others. The research employs mainly qualitative methods, but approaches also include quantitative methods and design science. Data is often gathered in professional development organisations in order to understand these phenomena. More here

Journalistic Reorientations
Journalistic Reorientations is a research project that investigates how journalism changes in its encounter with the Internet. The project analyses how professional and technological challenges from online communication forms impact on the normative foundations and democratic relevance of journalism, changes in its professional practices, the political economy of journalism, and its audiences. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council. More here

Women's Suffrage in the Media
In 1913, Norway became one of first countries in the world to give women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. How was the controversial question of women’s suffrage covered in the media of the time? As part of the Faculty of Social Sciences’ celebration of the upcoming 100 year anniversary for universal suffrage in Norway, journalism researcher Brita Ytre-Arne will analyse the media debate on voting rights for women. More here.

The SCY Project: Science Created by You
SCY aims to take science education to the next level by developing a flexible, open-ended learning environment that engages and empowers adolescent learners. Within this learning environment - called SCY-Lab - students embark on authentic 'SCY missions' that can be completed through constructive and productive learning activities. More here

Of Authorship and Originality: Reclaiming Copyright in Support of Creative Collaboration in the Digital Environment
This HERA-project is a multi-disciplinary collaboration that investigates how insights from literary theory, music studies, film/visual studies and other Humanities' disciplines can help articulate copyright norms that enable sustainable creative practices in the digital environment. More here