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Performing Bias : Conceptions of Machine Vision Bias in Digital Art
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-04-26)Gjennom tidene har produksjon og reproduksjon av bilder gradvis blitt mekanisert, digitalisert og automatisert, men persepsjon styrt av kunstig intelligens (AI) har hatt stor innvirkning på moderne maskinsyn-teknologier. ... -
Personargumenter mot stortingspolitikere
(Master thesis, 2024-02-01)Sammendrag Denne oppgaven handler om bruk av personargumenter mot stortingspolitikere. Argumentasjonsteoretisk regnes personargumenter vanligvis som feilslutninger, fordi de forkaster en uttalelse på grunn av den som ... -
Kyrkjeleg biletbruk. Eit studium av den norske kyrkjesalmen
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-04-12)Kva skjer med dei språklege bileta i ein salme som blir revidert og teken med frå tid til tid og salmebok til salmebok? Dette spørsmålet ønskjer avhandlinga «Kyrkjeleg biletbruk. Eit studium av den norske kyrkjesalmen» å ... -
På sporet av fiksjon- en nærlesning av Tomas Espedals roman Imot naturen med søkelys på allusjon
(Master thesis, 2024-02-01)I denne masteroppgaven undersøker jeg hvordan allusjoner i Tomas Espedals roman Imot naturen (2011), kan påvirke hvordan romanen kan leses. Romanen handler om karakteren Tomas og hans to store kjærlighetsforhold, om hans ... -
Laughing and humor in ancient Egyptian monasticism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The goal of this article is to analyze laughter and humor in the Egyptian monastic and ascetic movement in the 4th and 5th centuries with a special focus on solitary and non-humorous laughter. The article argues that ... -
Phenomenology of Reading Meaning, Interpretation, Discourse
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Governing migration through vulnerability at Spain’s southern maritime border: a malleable concept in a securitised and marketised regime
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Vulnerability has emerged as a central policy concept in migration governance. Despite its growing importance, the concept remains contested and ambiguous. As multiple conceptions of vulnerability circulate, it becomes ... -
How politicians and the population attribute responsibility for climate change mitigation: no indication of a ‘governance trap’ in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Previous research claims that ‘the most significant risk’ to achieving climate change mitigation goals is the ‘governance trap’, whereby governments and the public attribute responsibility for action to one another. While ... -
Exploring L2 English Proficiency and Translation of Academic English Vocabulary
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Knowledge of academic English vocabulary is essential for upper secondary L2 English learners preparing for university studies, yet previous research suggests students in Scandinavian settings may need support to acquire ... -
“And what if I enwreathed my own?” Literary Tourism as Transplantation in Wordsworth’s Yarrow Poems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article, focusing on William Wordsworth’s poems about the Scottish river Yarrow, investigates the English poet’s creative refashioning of the Scottish broadsheet balladry tradition. It throws light on Wordsworth’s ... -
Hvem er prekariatet? Sårbare liv i Cathrine Knudsens De langtidsboende (2008), Manuell (2014) og Den siste hjelperen (2018)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)I den nordiske litteraturforskningen har man sett på litterære skildringer av prekariatet enten med utgangspunkt i sosiologen Guy Standings bok The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class fra 2011 eller i filosofen Judith Butlers ... -
'A Work of Life'. Jane Ellen Harrison on Old Age
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The article examines the classical scholar Jane Ellen Harrison’s (1850-1928) thoughts about aging both as a cultural phenomenon and as personal experience. It argues that her reflections are poised between two diverging ... -
Hacking Surveillance Cameras, Tricking AI and Disputing Biases: Artistic Critiques of Machine Vision
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In the field of AI, troublesome machine behaviour is a recurring problem, and is particularly worrying when the governance of populations is externalised to machines. This article will focus on machine vision and explore ... -
Seeds for New Beginnings? Ecological Uncertainty, Blurry Ideology, and Speculative Design at the Universitas symposium, 1972
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In 1972, designer Emilio Ambasz (b. 1943) organized the symposium “The Universitas Project” at MoMA in New York City. The issue at stake was how the field of design should tackle the possibly irresolvable societal, political, ... -
The Humanities of Contagion: How Literary and Visual Representations of the "Spanish" Flu Pandemic Complement, Complicate and Calibrate COVID-19 Narratives
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)My article examines how literary and visual representations of the “Spanish” Flu contagion foreshadow and generate critical discourses about pandemics. D.H. Lawrence’s novella The Fox characterises paranoia about biological ... -
Exhibiting Computational Language Art
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Redemption, transcendence, and spirituality, or ease, hope, and comfort? On Llanera's strong redescription of Rorty
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism, Tracy Llanera places Richard Rorty in conversation with philosophers confronting nihilism as a “malaise of modernity.” She shows how Rortyan thought offers a horizontal and ... -
Resilience and vulnerability in the Syrian Desert in the first millennium CE: The case of the oasis city Tadmor (Palmyra)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Urban resilience in past societies is challenging to measure given the nature of our data, which, for the most part, gives insight into past processes only through their archaeological and historical outcomes. We, therefore, ... -
The history of hunger: Counting calories to make global food security legible
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU) is one of the most central indicators informing the international development agenda. Reported annually by the Rome-based UN agencies in their flagship report The State of Food ...