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Visual Analysis and Personalisation in Advertisement
(Master thesis, 2022-12-01)Advertisement is one of the primary sources of revenue for companies. Advertisement can result in increased sales for the companies by promoting their products or by hosting the advertisement of the other companies. While ... -
The Visual Boundaries of Journalism: Native Advertising and the Convergence of Editorial and Commercial Content
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This study investigates the visual objects that are used to either disclose or disguise the commercial nature of native advertising as news articles. We adopt a “material object” approach to explore the potential implications ... -
Visual cultural biases in food classification
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article investigates how visual biases influence the choices made by people and machines in the context of online food. To this end the paper investigates three research questions and shows (i) to what extent machines ... -
Visual Rhetoric and the Power of Imagery: A Brief Lesson in the Rhetorical Power of Images and the Need for phronesis and krisis in the Teaching of Visual Rhetoric
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Since the ancient rhetoricians, humans have awarded imagery, the visual, and the vivid an extraordinary effect on emotions and memory. Such assumptions have led to iconophobia, iconoclasm, and myths about the special power ... -
Visual User-Generated Content Verification in Journalism: An Overview
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Over the past few years, social media has become an indispensable part of the news generation and dissemination cycle on the global stage. These digital channels along with the easy-to-use editing tools have unfortunately ... -
Visualisering og mønstergjenkjenning på transaksjonsbaserte data fra Enterprise Resource Planning og Point of Sale baserte bedrifter
(Master thesis, 2015-05-01)De fleste bedrifter benytter i dag forretningssystemer for å samle inn og behandle forretningsrelaterte data. Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP) og Point of Sale(POS) programvare er eksempler på systemer som begge generer ... -
Visualization of Complex Systems
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-01-04)Complex systems are difficult to understand. To aid understanding of complexdynamic systems the field of system dynamics has developed a set of visualizationmethods for graphic representation of the simulation models of ... -
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Vitenskap for politikk - Om bidrag til matkontroll og matforsyning
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Forholdet mellom fag og politikk er sentralt i forvaltningsforskningen. Denne artikkelen tar for seg leveranser fra vitenskap til politikk og forvaltning i første halvdel av 1900-tallet. I en tid hvor forvaltningen for ... -
Voices on the Border : Comedy and Immigration in the Scandinavian Public Spheres
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-03-03)The aim of this dissertation is to advance the understanding of the relationship between comedy and politics, as well as the relationship between the cultural and the political parts of the public sphere. Its main research ... -
Vold og Ære, hevn og forsoning. Om kulturell kontinuitet i et komparativt perspektiv
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)This article is a slightly modified version of the honorary lecture I gave at the Annual Conference of the Norwegian Association of Anthropologists 2017. I am addressing the conference's central theme – cultural continuity ... -
Voter alignments in a dominant party system: The cleavage structures of the Russian Federation.
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)This thesis investigates whether there is a social cleavage structure across the Russian regions and whether this structure is mirrored in the electoral vote shares for Putin and his party United Russia on one hand, versus ... -
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper presents the results of a conjoint survey experiment in which Swiss citizens were asked to choose among parliamentary candidates with different class profiles determined by occupation, education and income. ... -
Vulnerability governance as differential inclusion: the struggles of asylum seekers in Marseille
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Concerns with ‘vulnerability’ increasingly proliferate in global and regional pacts, international and domestic legislations, and policy discourses and practices regarding migration and international protection. Also in ... -
Vurdera, representera, fokusera? Ei samanlikning av geografisk representasjonsfokus blant norske og svenske kommunestyrerepresentantar
(Master thesis, 2016-05-31)I denne oppgåva tek eg føre meg representasjonsfokuset blant norske og svenske kommunestyrerepresentantar. Representasjonsfokuset til representantane syner kven dei i størst grad meiner det er viktig at dei representerer ... -
Wage Inequality in Rich Democracies : Policies and Politics
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-08-09)Økende økonomisk ulikhet er en betydelig utfordring for moderne avanserte demokratier. Økonomisk ulikhet skaper sosiale spenninger, reduserer sosial mobilitet, hindrer økonomisk vekst, og undergraver prinsippet om lik ... -
Wanem ia jenda? [What is Gender?]: Translations and (Mis)Understandings between Development Discourse & Everyday Life Experiences in Port Vila, Vanuatu
(Master thesis, 2016-06-17)Labelled as one of the Least Developed Countries, Vanuatu is a popular place for international Development agencies. The situation of women is particularly often targeted in the Development discourses and buzzwords like ... -
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Can wars breed nationalism? We argue that civilians’ indirect exposure to war fatalities can trigger psychological processes that increase identification with their nation and ultimately strengthen support for nationalist ... -
«WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT» - En studie av krimjournalistikk på Snapchat
(Master thesis, 2022-05-31)Det groteske og skremmende har alltid fascinert publikum. Krimjournalistikken kan spores tilbake til 1500-tallet, og etterspørselen for krimsaker er kanskje større nå enn noensinne. Nå finner vi dessuten krimjournalistikk ... -
Wastage features of the inland ice sheet in central South Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1980)Detailed field mapping of different lateral phenomena, striae, texture and till fabric are the basis of a reconstruction of five deglaciation phases in the east Jotunheimen-Gudbrandsdalen area, a landscape with moderate ...