Research events

The purpose of this seminar is to introduce the new team coordinating the PhD program at the Department, Timotheus Vermeulen and Maria Tårland, as well as new PhD candidates.

The programme is available here.

Florence Namasinga defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

Sourcing in Converged Media Spheres: A study of how print journalists in Uganda use social media in routine news coverage

CRMI is happy to host the seventh International Symposium on Media Innvoations as August turns into September.  This year, we will convene in the beautiful Library of Humanities and Social Sciences. Follow links for call for papers and other conference information.

Samiksha Koirala defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

Gender Representations in the Nepali Press during Pre-Conflict, Conflict and Post-Conflict Periods : Examining gender coverage in Nepali newspapers of 1994-2014

The midway seminar of Elisabeth Brun.

This day of debate is about the personal stories that seldom get told: what it means to be involuntarily childless in a society that tends to revolve around children and what happens when becoming a parent is not what one had expected.

This event aims to contribute new voices, arguments and angles of approach to the Norwegian public debate on fertility, family and parenthood.

What does it mean to be human in the digital age? The question of being human is for networked populations today highly entangled with digital media. The digitalisation of everyday life and our entire lifeworld raises a number of existential issues that relate both to what is mundane and to what is extraordinary. 

The Centre for Research on Media Innovations at the Department of Media and Communications, University of Oslo invites researchers interested in Digital Research Ethics to a seminar and roundtable discussion on 1 December 2017.  We will present and discuss contemporary ethical dilemmas that relate to digital research.

Topic: How do different screens afford and limit ways of story-telling within the context of the discipline of media aesthetics?

Topic: How do different screens afford and limit ways of story-telling within the context of the discipline of media aesthetics?

Topic: How do different screens afford and limit ways of story-telling within the context of the discipline of media aesthetics?

The Centre for Research on Media Innovations (CRMI) invites you all to participate in a workshop on Digital Research Ethics.  The workshop is part of a collaboration between researchers at CRMI, IMK, the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) and Aline Shakti Franzke. The aim is to support researchers in ethical decision-making processes.  

Hendrik Spilker will launch his new book "Digital Music Distribution: The Sociology of Online Music Streams" September 14 in Oslo. The event will be in Norwegian. 

The Stream research project will host a breakfast seminar September 14 at the House of Literature in Oslo. The seminar will be in Norwegian. 

Ordinær generalforsamlig i Centre for Research on Media Innovations avholdes i år 13. juni på Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon, UiO.

Before the annual general meeting in CRMI, there will be a seminar with IMK's Professor II, Lucy Küng. The seminar is open to everyone.

Nancy Baym, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, is visiting Oslo next week. She will hold a guest lecture based on her new (in-press) book Relating to Audiences. Musicians, Media and the New Call to Intimacy.

There will be a lunch seminar with Christian Fieseler and Christoph Lutz Tuesday 25 October at the Department of Media and Communication. Both Fieseler and Lutz work at the Nordic Centre for Internet & Society, BI Norwegian Business School.

The Media Innovation Gathering 2016 is the industry session of the International Symposium on Media Innovations 2016.