Blar i Faculty of Social Sciences på dokumenttype "Doctoral thesis"
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Classification: Assumptions and Implications for Conceptual Modeling
(Doctoral thesis, 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, ... -
Cleavages and Coalitions. Comprehensive School Reforms in Norway and North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany (1954-1979)
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-06-18)This study examines comprehensive school reforms in Norway and the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in the period from around 1954 to 1979 from a comparative-historical perspective. In both cases, great ... -
Climate and society. A complex and conditional relationship
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-05-13)Too little rainfall causes human adaptation problems. Too much rainfall as well. The same isvalid for temperature. What makes people vulnerable to climate and what impacts can climatecause on society? Where lies the border ... -
Climate Change Journalism in Bangladesh. Professional Norms and Attention in Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-10-26)Generally, journalistic issue attention is shaped by the importance of the issue to the target audience and professional norms attached to the issue are supplied by journalists’ understanding of the issue derived from ... -
Climate change: Challenging democracies, challenging parties
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-12-04)Climate change has emerged as the most prominent contemporary environmental issue, and poses several challenges to democratic processes. Democracies are struggling to integrate climate concern, and political parties attempt ... -
Collaboration in Online Communities: Exploring Finnish Wikipedia
(Doctoral thesis, 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 instances of ... -
Collaborative video editing
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-01-26)Samarbeid i videoredigering Denne avhandlingen tar opp følgende spørsmål: Hvordan kan vi støtte samarbeid i videoredigering? I ulike anvendelsesområder, som skriving og design, er bruk av samarbeidsverktøy utbredt. ... -
Computational Journalism. When journalism meets programming
(Doctoral thesis, 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 ... -
Consistent Citizens? Exploring and Explaining Mechanisms of Opinion Change
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-12-20)This dissertation examines patterns of public opinion change and their determinants from the perspectives of both internal and external theories of opinion change. Based on new and original panel data on Norwegian citizens’ ... -
Contested energy spaces. Disassembling energyscapes of the Canadian North
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-12-07)For decades, extractive industry developments have had direct and indirect impacts on indigenous communities in Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada. Yet, in a seemingly paradoxical manner and despite massive negative attention, ... -
The Controversial Populist Radical Right Through the Eyes of the Public: Disliked, yet Tolerated?
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-06-28)This thesis is about the populist radical right and why we need to study this group of parties. I ask the following research question: Why is there exceptional political controversy around the populist radical right? To ... -
Creating Democratic Citizens? An analysis of Mock Elections as Political Education in School
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-11-04)Mock elections at school have been a part of the political education in Norway since the end of the Second World War, and have become an institution of political education. One of the main objectives of democratic institutions ... -
A Critical Geography of Compact Urbanism : Urban politics of difference in Oslo
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-11-16)Since the 1990s urban sustainability has become a prominent international policymaking goal and global policy discourses have encouraged people to live in cities. Compact city policies have proliferated during this period. ... -
De urettmessige mindreverdige. Domstolens maktkritiske funksjon i saker om spesialundervisning
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Death as Victory, Victory as Death : Violence, Martyrdom, and the Cosmology of Revolution in the Kurdish Freedom Movement
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-12-05)The central investigation of the thesis concerns the nature of revolution in the Kurdish freedom movement, i.e. the social movement affiliated with the guerilla organization, the PKK. The main argument forwarded is that ... -
Decent Work: Principles, policies and programmes of the International Labour Organisation
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Delineating boundariesbetween 'us' and 'them': A reception study of the representation of Muslim characters in the television serial 24
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-11-07)This thesis presents an examination of the US television serial 24’s representation of Muslim characters, and it explores to what extent the perception of these characters can be determined by the cultural and ethnic ... -
Democratic Legitimacy in South Asia and Beyond : Does Culture Matter?
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-08-12)Demokrati har fått verdensomspennende offentlig aksept som et ideelt system for styring. Forskere om demokrati utfører mye forskning, inkludert undersøkelser, for å identifisere kildene til legitimitet for demokrati. Denne ... -
Democratic Reflections : To what extent do representatives mirror their constituents, and how does it affect the challenges modern, representative democracy are facing?
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-02-18)This thesis addresses the important challenges that contemporary, representative democracies are facing, and shows how (better) representation can contribute to tackling them. In doing so, I limit the scope to one specific ... -
Den gode, hellige og disiplinerte kunsten. Forestillinger om kunstens autonomi i kulturpolitikk og kunstledelse
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-03-16)Hvordan står det til med kunsten i en tid da mange mener at økonomiske vurderingsmåter overtar på stadig flere samfunnsområder? Blir kunsten i takt med nyliberalismens økte gjennomslag underlagt markedets suksesskriterier? ...