Political scientist researching social media, the far right, and artificial intelligence
Øyvind Bugge Solheim is a Researcher II at ISF and is affiliated with the Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector. Solheim holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo (2019) and has previously worked at C-REX, the Centre for Research on Extremism at UiO.
Solheim’s research focuses on social media, artificial intelligence, and the consequences of terrorist attacks, particularly for attitudes toward minorities. In addition, he works on issues related to children and young people’s participation in organized leisure activities and the conditions for voluntary engagement at the Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector. He primarily uses quantitative methods to analyze surveys and survey experiments, as well as to study text data such as social media posts, using various types of language models.