Research

Department of Communication and Culture

We develop and disseminate knowledge based on communication and cultural challenges of the sustainable future where digitalization is central. We do this through engaging with students, dialog, and collaborations with partners.

Seminar series

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Spring 2026

Date Time Speaker Title
25 February 10:30-11:30 Cansu Hattula "Escaping the Digital Noise: Conceptualizing and Measuring Digital Minimalism"
18 March 10:30-11:30 Ola Berge "Culture in the Tension Field of Preparedness"
8 April 10:30-11:30 Susanna Sarkki Ekestubbe "Celebrity Equity and Its Role in Firm Growth and Internationalization"
22 April 10:30-11:30 Ide Katrine Birkeland "Coding for temporal dynamics - best-practice recommendations to measure behavior"
6 May 10:30-11:30 Guro Refsum Sanden  "Rethinking language in international business"

Previous seminars

2025
  • 5 February: Yangchun Koke Li, Is playing favorites always beneficial? A test of returnless refunds issued by e-commerce platforms
  • 26 February: Shubin Yu, GenAI for Social Science Research: Tools and Policies
  • 2 April: Jørgen Smedsrud
  • 30 April: Terje Colbjørnsen
  • 7 May: Tsehaye Haidemariam, Teaching in the Metaverse After the Third Scientific Transition: Insights from a Business School Pilot
  • 24 September: Hannah Baum, Let Me Be Transparent! Does Workplace Transparency Interact With Moral Identity to Shape Organizational Deviance?
  • 8 October: Sebastian Schwemer, Human(s) Somewhere in the EU Loop
  • 22 October: Alexander Refsum Jesenius, Introduction to MishMash – Senter for KI og kreativitet
  • 5 November: Ingrid Løkken, Quality Counts: Tracing the Path from Early Childhood Experiences to School Success in Norway
  • 12 November: Joonas Tikkanen, Driving RDI Through Innovation, AI & HPC: KAMK & the AIKA DIH Ecosystem
  • 19 November: Alexander Buhmann, Dealing with disruption: The management of tensions in AI implementation and use
  • 26 November: Benedicte Brøgger and Silje Engeseth, AI in design of assessments & how klagenemnda has dealt with cases of expected plagiarism/cheating by AI
2024
  • 28 February: Silvia Masiero, The Politics of Data Activism in Digital ID
  • 13 March: Nina Kotula, The Sustainable Development of Business Schools in the Era of Digital Transformation
  • 24 April: Benedicte Brøgger, Coming of age in digital capitalism
  • 8 May: Mona Masoumi Dinan, The study examines the impact of Short-Term Rental platforms on sustainability in the US and UK
  • 15 May: Cristina Miguel, Self-branding, content creation strategies, and communities of practices on Instagram: A case study of foodie influencers
  • 16 October: Nathan Warren, Trickster Consumption: Applying the Trickster Lens to Understand Unbridled Consumption
  • 6 November: Suzanne van Gils, Defending your own or trolling the haters? A configurational approach to incivility in online communities
  • 13 November: Carlos Eduardo, Caldas de Souza, How many genders are out there? Shifts in Gender Norms and Gendered Consumption.
  • 4 December: Katja Wirenius, Olli Kupaiainen
2023
  • 4 October: Knut Kolnar, Living on borrowed desire
  • 11 October: Christoph Lutz, Working from paradise? Digital nomads’s self presentation on Instagram
  • 1 November: Suzanne van Gils, Publishing in ABS 3 (and up), experiences from the perspective of editor at JBE
  • 15 November: Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux, Legal automation and accountability: What factors to consider to responsibly automate legal processes?
  • 29 November: Mark Brown, How can we reflect on teaching practice?