Faculty of Social Sciences
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Department of Economics [434]
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Department of Geography [859]
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Department of Government [623]
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Department of Sociology [537]
Recent Submissions
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On Sharks Unseen: Oceanic Non-Encounters and Multispecies Ethnography
(Journal article, 2024)Basking sharks are the planet’s second-largest fish, and in the summer they feed on plankton in the Sea of the Hebrides, in Scotland. Once hunted for the oil contained in their livers, basking sharks are now a protected ... -
Philosophical Perspectives on Recommender Systems: Ethical Implications, Biases, and Their Impact on Autonomy and Privacy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Recommender Systems (RSs) assist users in navigating overwhelming amounts of digital information by offering personalized suggestions. While invaluable, these systems raise concerns about biases, fairness, as well as user ... -
The Impact of EU Antitrust Enforcement on Stock Market Valuations: An Event Study Analysis After the 2006 Fining Guidelines
(Master thesis, 2025-02-03)This study examines the stock market impact of EU antitrust enforcement following the 2006 revisions to the EU fining guidelines. Based on an examination of 123 cases from the Official Journal of the European Union, I use ... -
Advancing Visual Food Attractiveness Predictions for Healthy Food Recommender Systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The visual representation of food has a significant influence on how people choose food in the real world but also in a digital food recommender scenario. Previous studies on that matter show that small change in visual ... -
Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)Since the 1990s, African incumbents have engaged in forms of rule-bending that weaken democratic institutions. The democratic backsliding witnessed weaponises law through processes of autocratic lawfare. However, civil ... -
Résurrection numérique, deuil et données personnelles : décryptage des imaginaires dystopiques et des enjeux éthiques de l’IA dans l’épisode « Be Right Back » de Black Mirror
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Dans l’épisode « Be right Back » (S02E01) réalisé par Owen Harris et diffusé sur Channel 4 le 11 février 2013, la série télévisée Black Mirror met en scène une intelligence artificielle programmée pour permettre de converser ... -
BabelBot at AraFinNLP2024: Fine-tuning T5 for Multi-dialect Intent Detection with Synthetic Data and Model Ensembling
(Chapter, 2024)This paper presents our results for the Arabic Financial NLP (AraFinNLP) shared task at the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2024). We participated in the first sub-task, Multi-dialect Intent ... -
Academic filmmaking and its discontents: In between videographic criticism and visual anthropology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Working with the same filmed material from the perspective of anthropology and screen studies, the authors discuss their disciplines’ different approaches to academic filmmaking. This article presents two videos, Filming ... -
A data-centric approach for ethical and trustworthy AI in journalism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)AI-driven journalism refers to various methods and tools for gathering, verifying, producing, and distributing news information. Their potential is to extend human capabilities and create new forms of augmented journalism. ... -
Tilly Reversed? Another Cycle of Labor and Socialism is Possible
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)As labor in the capitalist system practically tripled to some three billion workers, solidary organizations of labor simultaneously dwindled in relative size and power. This is true globally but also for the historical ... -
Perception versus Reality: Evaluating User Awareness of Political Selective Exposure in News Recommender Systems
(Chapter, 2024)News Recommender Systems (NRSs) have become increasingly pivotal in shaping the news landscape, particularly in how news is disseminated. This has also led to concerns about information diversity, especially regarding ... -
«Alle vet at Norge er best»: Kampen mot prekære og utnyttende arbeidsforhold i det norske arbeidslivet og velferdssamfunnet
(Journal article, 2024)En norsk arbeidslivsmodell og omfattende velferdsordninger er med på å sikre et trygt arbeidsliv og støtte for mennesker som faller utenfor arbeidslivet. Likevel peker forskere på økende forekomst av prekære arbeidsforhold, ... -
Trust, trustworthiness and AI governance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)An emerging issue in AI alignment is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by public authorities, and specifically the integration of algorithmic decision-making (ADM) into core state functions. In this context, the ... -
Value at the End of the Cycle: On Frontlines and Regimes
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Introduction: Wolf, Europe and people without history: Forty years on
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Europe and the people without history (EPWH), published in 1982, challenged anthropology's focus on localism, synchronism, and culturalism, providing a meticulous exposition of multiscalar social relationships in motion. ... -
Systemic Barriers and Unfairness: Access to Justice in Zimbabwe and Beyond
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Citizens in plural legal and cultural former colonies like Zimbabwe do not have effective access to justice. This is because the formal justice system is marred with obstacles that either prevent people from entering and ... -
Governance Reforms in Scandinavia: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
(Chapter, 2024)Impulses for governance reforms come from many directions and take different forms. The Scandinavian countries have been influenced by contemporary governance ideas—New Public Management (NPM), post-NPM, and New Public ... -
Investigation of the Long-Term Impacts of AI Education on Business Processes: A Case Study of Norway
(Master thesis, 2025-02-06)