University of Oslo

The University of Oslo is Norway’s oldest institution for research and higher education, with 28,000 students and 7,000 employees. Through knowledge, responsibility, and commitment their mission is to contribute to a sustainable future. For the next ten years, the University of Oslo wishes to promote independent, pioneering, and long-term research and offer outstanding education. It aims to strengthen the dialogue with the outside world and contribute to the use of knowledge and educate students with the knowledge, ability, and willingness to create a better world.

The Department of Media and Communication at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo is an interdisciplinary institute, based on academic traditions from both the humanities and the social sciences. Through research and teaching on media aesthetics, screen cultures, political communication, media innovation, and youth and the media the department aims to solve the societal challenges we face today.