Department of Information Science and Media Studies
Recent Submissions
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Virtuality and depiction in video game representation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article seeks to clarify the role of the image in video game representation. I argue that virtuality is incompatible with depictive representation and that the distinction between virtual environments and interactive ... -
Improving Judgment Reliability in Social Networks via Jury Theorems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Opinion aggregators—such as ‘like’ or ‘retweet’ counters—are ubiquitous on social media platforms and often treated as implicit quality evaluations of the entry liked or retweeted, with higher counts indicating higher ... -
Politiker – person eller profesjon?
(Master thesis, 2020-12-19)Denne oppgaven tar for seg unge mennesker sitt forhold til personalisert politikk. Studien er basert på åtte enkeltintervjuer gjennomført våren 2020. Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i tre klipp av Senterpartileder Trygve Slagsvold ... -
Divide and Control: Evaluating Controllability in Multi-lists Presentation of Recommendations
(Master thesis, 2020-12-18) -
Trippeldrap som underholdning og forhandling
(Master thesis, 2020-12-15)Denne oppgaven undersøker hvordan NRKs Gåten Orderud reflekterer unge voksne sin bruk av true crime. True crime sjangeren har hatt en enorm vekst de siste årene, og NRK sin satsning på gjenfortellingen av Orderudsaken har ... -
Realistic face manipulation by morphing with average faces
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Face manipulation has become a standard feature of many social media services. Most of these applications use the feature for entertainment purposes. However, such manipulation techniques could also have potential in a ... -
Politisk influenser-kommunikasjon på YouTube
(Master thesis, 2020-10-07)En analyse av politiske influensere sin appell på YouTube. -
Explanations in Music Recommender Systems in a Mobile Setting
(Master thesis, 2020-09-18)Every day, millions of users utilize their mobile phones to access music streaming services such as Spotify. However, these `black boxes’ seldom provide adequate explanations for their music recommendations. A systematic ... -
Smart phone based virtual reality as tool for physical therapy
(Master thesis, 2020-09-09)This thesis explores the advantages and challenges of using a phone-based virtual reality solution when creating a system intended for the therapy of patients with non-specific chronic neck pain. It also explores the ... -
Digital frakobling - En kvalitativ studie av smarttelefonbruk og mobilbegrensning
(Master thesis, 2020-09-05)Denne oppgaven undersøker smarttelefonbruk og frakobling fra smarttelefonen. Digitale medier blir stadig en større del av hverdagslivet, og vi er omringet av skjermer fra morgen til kveld. I denne sammenheng spiller ... -
Instead of the deliberative debate : How the principle of expression plays out in the news-generated Facebook discussion
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-08-20)Social media have become an integrated part of people’s lives and are important communication channels, utilised both for personal communication and public debate. Several studies and theories suggest how the advent of ... -
Designing and comparing instruction-manual websites to improve usability and efficacy
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Håndgripelig brukergrensesnitt i Mixed Reality
(Master thesis, 2020-08-27)I denne studien undersøker jeg hvordan man kan designe et håndgripelig grensesnitt for Mixed Reality. Prosjektet inkluderer en kartlegging av teknologi for Mixed Reality, som er tilgjengelig på markedet i dag. En sentral ... -
Skam og offentlig tilknytning: En undersøkelse av hvordan unge jenters mediebruk av tv-serien Skam kan legge til rette for offentlig tilknytning
(Master thesis, 2020-08-26)This master thesis handles young girls media use of the TV-series Skam. The study is based on four group interviews. The selection of informants consists of 21 girls between 15 and 16 years of age, which at the time was ... -
Promoting Data Journalism with Purpose-Made Systems: A case study of the benefits of purpose-made data journalism systems among Norwegian Data Journalists
(Master thesis, 2020-08-25)The research project presented in this thesis is a case study investigating the usefulness of purpose-made data journalism systems. The study consists of two investigations, the first informal and exploratory, and the other ... -
Personlig politikk? - En analyse av publikums reaksjoner på tre kjente, norske politikeres selvpresentasjon på Facebook
(Master thesis, 2020-08-21)I denne oppgaven vil jeg studere og analysere tre norske topp-politikeres selvpresentasjon på Facebook og publikums respons på dette. Jeg ønsker å finne ut av hvilke elementer av autentisitet politikerne har i sin ... -
Comparing approaches to interactive lifelog search at the lifelog search challenge (LSC2018)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) is an international content retrieval competition that evaluates search for personal lifelog data. At the LSC, content-based search is performed over a multi-modal dataset, continuously ... -
Comparing Platform "Ranking Cultures" Across Languages: The Case of Islam on YouTube in Scandinavia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article is concerned with how different agencies play out in shaping public debate online and, for this purpose, employs an approach that acknowledges the role not just of algorithms seen in isolation, but in context ... -
Crowning moments: Transformative populist use of the media and the case of Carl I. Hagen
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article presents the concept of a “crowning moment” and proposes an explanation for the media-savviness of many populist leaders – an under-theorised ability often referred to in existing research. A crowning moment ... -
An evaluation of recommendation algorithms for online recipe portals
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Better models of food preferences are required to realise the oft touted potential of food recommenders to aid with the obesity crisis. Many of the food recommender evaluations in the literature have been performed with ...