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Once declared obsolete, now applied to refugees from Ukraine - The EU Temporary Protection Directive
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union (EU) made a historic decision to activate the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) for Ukrainian refugees. The directive had never been activated before and was ... -
One More Time? Parties’ Repeated Electoral Entry in Younger Democracies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Why and how parties continue contesting elections (“repeated entry”) is an underresearched question despite its essence for party survival and party-system stability. We study repeated entry in three decades of elections ... -
One More Turn after the Algorithmic Turn? Spotify’s Colonization of the Online Audio Space
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In the last decade, development of algorithmic recommendation systems has constituted the main competitive factor between music streaming services. In this article, we identify how a new turn, labelled ‘the auxiliary ... -
Online censorship and young people’s use of social media to get news
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The increasing adoption of social media across Africa has raised hopes that they represent a new locus of youth political agency. However, as social media has become more ubiquitous, so has its control by African regimes. ... -
Online collaboration and real-life benefits. A social use of Blogs in peripheral communities in Colombia
(Master thesis, 2010-03-16)This thesis aims to shed light on the Medellín, Colombia-based blogging project HiperBarrioConvergentes. With theories of assessment in the field of Community Informatics, and inparticular those of Dara O'Neil, it puts ... -
The online hostility hypothesis: representations of Muslims in online media
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Using a large data set of online media content in eight European countries, this paper broadens the empirical investigation of the online hostility hypothesis, which posits that interactions on social sites such as blogs ... -
Online Service Providers and the Arab Spring
(Master thesis, 2018-06-30)The role played by internet and mobile phone services – access providers, social media etc – in the Arab Spring has been much discussed, including in academia. Whether these services were instrumental in the wave of ... -
Only connect : unemployment and poverty; formal and informal economic activity in a divided world. The Role of the informal sector in alleviating unemployment and poverty in the third world.
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The ‘onto-logics’ of perspectival multi-naturalism: A realist critique
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, I argue for a realist anthropology based on the recognition of mind-independent reality; pitching this premise against concerted anti-dualist tendencies in contemporary anthropological thinking. I spell ... -
Ontologies for finding journalistic angles
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06)Journalism relies more and more on information and communication technology (ICT). ICT-based journalistic knowledge platforms continuously harvest potentially news-relevant information from the Internet and make it useful ... -
Ontology Based Information Extraction in the License Domain
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)All computer users needs to deal with End User License Agreements(EULA). Every time we install software or sign up for a web service we are expected to read and accept such a legal agreement. For most users this is only a ... -
An Ontology-Based Framework for Geospatial Integration and Querying of Raster Data Cube Using Virtual Knowledge Graphs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The integration of the raster data cube alongside another form of geospatial data (e.g., vector data) raises considerable challenges when it comes to managing and representing it using knowledge graphs. Such integration ... -
Operationalizing distribution as a key concept for public sphere theory. A call for ethnographic sensibility of different social worlds
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article takes issue with public sphere theories’ lack of focus on the consequences of social inequality. Citizens divide the work of following politics between them, and we need a cohesive conceptualization of such ... -
Operationalizing exposure diversity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The concept of exposure diversity, the diversity of information that people actually access and use, has recently gained prominence in media policy debates. This aspect of media diversity, however, remains difficult to ... -
Oppdragarar, granskarar, speglarar og agnostikarar. Skisse til ein norsk journalisttypologi.
(Chapter, 2010)I den engelskspråklege litteraturen om journalistar er det gjort fleire forsøk på å lage typologiar over ulike journalisttypar og -roller, der ein av dei mest kjende er Johnstone et. al sitt skilje mellom ei "nøytral" og ... -
Oppdrettsnæringens bidrag til sysselsetting i norske kystkommuner - En empirisk analyse basert på paneldata
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)Oppdrettsnæringen i Norge har vært et omdiskutert tema den siste tiden på grunn av spørsmålet om grunnrenteskatt. Næringen påstår at den spiller en sentral rolle i genereringen av arbeidsplasser, og derfor hevdes det at ... -
Oppfatningar om urettferd i arbeidslivet - ei studie av norske industriarbeidarar og lærarar
(Master thesis, 2020-06-30)Denne sosiologiske studien tar for seg ulike oppfatningar om urettferd i arbeidslivet med utgangspunkt i norske lærarar og industriarbeidarar. Med utgangspunkt i 15 intervju, med lærarar frå ein barne – og ungdomsskule og ... -
Oppfatningen av en voksenjobb. En kvalitativ studie om serveringsarbeideres holdninger til fagorganisering
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Oppfølgingsundersøkelsen 2021. Politiansatte og politilederes erfaring med (nær)politireformen
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Opphopning av levekårsproblemer: En kvantitativ analyse av sosial eksklusjon basert på levekårsundersøkelsen EU-SILC 2012-2018
(Master thesis, 2021-08-01)Sosial eksklusjon er et flerdimensjonalt begrep som blant annet kan handle om å være utsatt for opphopning av ulike levekårsproblemer som økonomiske problemer, lav tilknytning til arbeidslivet, helseproblemer, boligproblemer ...