Digitalisation entails major changes for employment and working life and leads to new threats we face in terms of monitoring or attacks on data security.
Through quantitative and qualitative studies, we investigate how digital technology, the internet and social media affect and change the way Norwegians engage in and organise social, voluntary and political action. This includes topics such as engagement for refugees through social media and how technology affects resource-weak groups' opportunities for community participation and citizenship.
Digital upbringing and learning
In regional competence centres for children and young people (RKBU Vest), we have a strong focus on combating digital bullying through the Olweus programme against bullying and antisocial behaviour. The Olweus programme has shown strong evidence of efficacy against bullying in several effect evaluations and is the most researched anti-bullying programme in the world.
NORCE combines its knowledge of bullying with its media and technology expertise to develop new teaching materials for use in anti-bullying work at school. The research shows that if fellow students engage themselves both against the incidence of bullying and on behalf of those who are victims of bullying, both the frequency of bullying and the consequences for those affected are reduced.
It is therefore important to teach students how to intervene in bullying situations in the right way. With technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) and 360 video, we can create realistic environments, where the user can have an experience of presence and participation in the situation that is unfolding. Among other things, we can create content for this type of technology, which is based on school students' perception of the phenomenon of bullying, through a co-creation process.
