Browsing Department of Information Science and Media Studies by Title
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Cinema in Ghana. History, Ideology and Popular Culture
(The University of Bergen, 2012-11-09)In spite of many years of research, theorizing, debate and contestation, there is always freshness about discourses on national cinema because of its contextual transformations. More importantly, apart from several ...Doctoral thesis -
Classification: Assumptions and Implications for Conceptual Modeling
(The University of Bergen, 2005-05-13)Classification is generally held to be of fundamental importance to the analysis and design of software applications. This is clearly reflected in data modelling terminology, in which terms like classification, concept, ...Doctoral thesis -
Collaboration in Online Communities: Exploring Finnish Wikipedia
(The University of Bergen, 2013-09-20)Online communities have risen to a great social and economic importance during the last two decades. Many online communities are oriented towards content production, and Wikipedia is one of the most prominent ...Doctoral thesis -
Commercial Services, Enclosure and Legitimacy: Comparing Contexts and Strategies for Public Service Media Funding and Development
(Nordicom, 2008)European public broadcasters have long since ceased to be solely publicly financed. But the inherently controversial licence fee on television sets has remained a key source of funding. Facing an increasingly complex digital ...Chapter -
A Comparative analysis of the relationship between gaming controllers and game mechanics
(The University of Bergen, 2013-06-08)In this thesis I have presented the issue of not exploiting the possibilities different technologies offer us in video games. The research questions were how can input-technologies affect the enjoyment of video games?", ...Master thesis -
Computational comprehension of spatial directions expressed in natural language
(The University of Bergen, 2015-06-01)Master thesis -
Computational Journalism. When journalism meets programming
(The University of Bergen, 2014-05-08)Digital data sources and platforms allow journalists to produce news in new and different ways. The shift from an analog to digital workflow introduces computation as a central component of news production. This enables ...Doctoral thesis -
Computational Support for Concept Blending applied to Musical Instruments
(The University of Bergen, 2017-12-23)This thesis presents a concept blending implementation that suggests which properties of a known concept are most compatible to blend with another concept. The implementation uses Wikipedia descriptions of concepts as data ...Master thesis -
Confidence in oneself, confidence in others: Design implications for the design of gameful CSCW systems
(The University of Bergen, 2014-04-05)Disentangling the intricacies of digitally supporting collaboration remains a challenge. It's a challenge which the field of Computer Supported Collaborative Work have been tackling for decades and where they've argued ...Master thesis -
Counter-stereotypical Images of Muslim Characters in the Television Serial 24: A Difference that Makes no Difference?
(Manchetser University Press, 2015)In the early years of the millennium racial counter-stereotypes gained prominence in Hollywood entertainment. This article examines the television serial 24’s (2001–10) efforts to combat allegations of stereotyping by ...Journal article -
The Cultural Value of Games: Computer Games and Cultural Policy in Europe
(Intellect Ltd, 2008)In this chapter I want to discuss the concept of ‘cultural value’ in computer games, as a reflection on why and how games might be a part of a future European cultural policy. To readers who are only vaguely familiar ...Chapter -
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Da norske medier oppdaget Latin-Amerika. Nyhetsgestaltning av tre latinamerikanske ledere under presidentvalg i 2006 i Aftenposten, Dagbladet og VG
(The University of Bergen, 2008-09-01)Oppgaven analayserer hvilke gestaltningsfaktorer kommer til uttrykk i konstruksjonen av portrettene av Michelle Bachelet, Felipe Calderón og Hugo Chávez i de tre norske avisene VG, Dagbladet og Aftenposten. Hovedtematikken ...Master thesis -
Dansebandfeber! En analyse av dansebandkulturens mediale fremstillinger
(The University of Bergen, 2007)I denne oppgaven utforskes ulike aspekter ved norsk dansebandkultur. Gjennom semiotisk analyse av sangtekster, plateomslag og DVD identifiseres ulike verdi-og idenitetsdiskurser. Videre settes dansebandkulturens estetiske ...Master thesis -
Darin Morgan - Humbug eller ekte vare?
(The University of Bergen, 2013-05-15)Analyse av Darin Morgans episoder i tv-seriene X-Files og Millennium.Master thesis -
Datarøvere og nettpirater. En studie av atferden på Bittorrentserveren The Pirate Bay
(The University of Bergen, 2007-11-30)I hvilken grad skjer det tilpasning mellom opplastere og nedlastere i fildelingssamfunnet The Pirate Bay, og hvordan kan ulike former for motivasjon bidra til å forklare atferden og relasjonen mellom aktørene.Master thesis -
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David Beckham: En analyse av merkevaren, celebriteten og personen - basert på portrettintervju i ni ulike magasiner
(The University of Bergen, 2014-11-30)Dette er en kvalitativ innholdsanalyse av hvordan David Beckham blir framstilt i ni ulike magasiner, med fokus på celebritetsanalyse og oppbygging av merkevaren David Beckham.Master thesis -
"De kan være naboene dine" - Fremstillingen av en muslimsk familie i 24
(Universitetsforlaget, 2009-09)Academic literature on movies and television series produced in Hollywood documents that they are often represented in a stereotype and negative manner. The television series 24 may not be an exception. 24 has been criticized ...Journal articlePeer reviewed -
"De lovet å ikke spille på sex" Om programmet "Jenteligaen", og TV 2 sin fremstilling av "kvinnelig" fotball
(The University of Bergen, 2010-06-08)"Jenteligaen" var et program om norsk kvinnefotball på TV 2, fra 2008 til 2009. Dette programmet var det eneste programmet før og etter som tok for seg fotball spilt av kvinner, på fotballkanalen TV 2. Dette oppgaven tar ...Master thesis