Browsing Department of Information Science and Media Studies by Title
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The application of personality and emotion in artificial agents
(Master thesis, 2016-06-01)Denne oppgaven prøver å utvikle ett allsidig og gjenkjennelig emosjons of personlighets system basert på Ortony, Clore, Collins emosjons modellen og Zamora personlighets taxonomien. Den tester om ett sånt system kan lett ... -
Arthroplasty Data Visualization
(Master thesis, 2021-06-15)This master's thesis presents the work done in the field of visualization and interactivity conducted within the Design Science framework. The main goal was to make the data analysis using the arthroplasty register data ... -
ARTree. Designing & evaluating handheld augmented reality art
(Master thesis, 2011-06-01)Augmented reality is a technology combining physical and virtual objects. This study aimes to explore the use of this technology in art. The prototype ARTree was developed through contributions from an artist, and consists ... -
Askeladden og ministeren - Tolkningsrammer og medielogikk i "Aker-saken" 2009.
(Master thesis, 2010-06-01)Denne masteroppgaven ser på VGs dekning avkonflikten mellom regjeringen og Kjell Inge Røkkei 2009, også kjent som Aker-saken.Problemstillingen er: "Hvilke tolkningsrammerbruker VG i Aker-saken, og hva gjør deforskjellige ... -
ASPIRE Adaptive strategy prediction in a RTS environment
(Master thesis, 2012-06-01)When playing a Real Time Strategy(RTS) game against the non-human player(bot) it is important that the bot can do different strategies to create a challenging experience over time. In this thesis we aim to improve the way ... -
Assessment of HIV Data Reporting Performance by Facilities During EMR Systems Implementations in Kenya
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)There is little evidence that implementations of Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMRs) are associated with better reporting completeness and timeliness of HIV routine data to the national aggregate system. We analyzed ... -
At the crossroads of logics: Automating newswork with artificial intelligence—(Re)defining journalistic logics from the perspective of technologists
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become more ubiquitous for streamlining and optimizing work, they are entering fields representing organizational logics at odds with the efficiency logic of automation. One ... -
“At the end of the day, these are just regular people talking about political things.” - YouTube as a platform for politics.
(Master thesis, 2021-06-01)This thesis explores how and why young adults in Norway use YouTube as a platform to engage with political content, and studies how this content and its producers impact their political identity. A lot has been written and ... -
Attached or Detached? Subjective Methods in War Journalism
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Attitudes to Open Source Software in Bergen Kommune
(Master thesis, 2012-01-30)This work describes key elements of Open Source Software, computer history and the attitudes found in the municipal of Bergen to Open Source Software. It tries to describe the use of the software, which attitudes that can ... -
Attitudes towards the Covid-19 vaccine on Twitter in Norway
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)The goal of this thesis is to characterize the distribution of attitudes present on Norwegian Twitter concerning the Covid-19 vaccine by implementing methods for text analysis and social media network analysis. The first ... -
Audiences’ Communicative Agency in a Datafied Age: Interpretative, Relational and Increasingly Prospective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article develops a conceptualization of audience agency in the face of datafication. We consider how people, as audiences and users of media and technologies, face transforming communicative conditions, and how these ... -
Automated analysis of Norwegian text
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-28)In this thesis we look at how we can develop automated analysis tools for Norwegian text. We look at 3 different tasks: Part-of-Speech (PoS) tagging, Named-Entity Chunking (NEC), and Named-Entity Recognition (NER). For our ... -
Automated Front Detection - Using computer vision and machine learning to explore a new direction in automated weather forecasting
(Master thesis, 2017-04-22)In weather forecasting, automation and computing are the driving forces of innovation. More computing power and better techniques allow for faster and more accurate weather data systems. The task of detecting fronts ... -
Automated Identification of Severe Errors in Speech to Text Transcripts
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)In this thesis we explore how problematic misplaced words can be automatically identified in speech-to-text-transcripts. Automatic Speech Recognition systems (ASR) are systems that can automatically generate text from human ... -
Automated Moderation: Detecting Irony in a Norwegian Facebook Comment Section using a Longformer Transformer Model with a Context Encoded Dataset
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)Irony is a complex phenomenon of human communication and due to its contextual nature has been notoriously difficult for machine learning algorithms to detect. With an established practical definition of irony based in the ... -
An automated system to analyze system dynamics model
(Master thesis, 2004)For a very long time, software oriented to analyze system dynamics models using eigenvalue analysis technique was not more than a dream. System Dynamics has been hampered by the lack of such software used to analyze the ... -
Automatic Detection of Manipulative Consent Management Platforms and the Journey into the Patterns of Darkness
(Chapter, 2023)We study how to automatically classify different types of manipulative interface design pattern for Content Management Platforms (CMPs), also known as a cookie consents. Our approach uses a scraper to extract different ... -
Automatic detection on CMPs and the journey into the patterns of darkness
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Automatic Facial Anonymisation Using Average Face Morphing. An explorative attempt at designing a tool for investigating the normative views of journalism practices in dealing with manipulation and usage of facial press photographies.
(Master thesis, 2017-07-08)This thesis describes the process of developing and evaluating a design science research artefact for anonymising faces in images. The artefact is developed for use in RRI-research in the ViSmedia research group at the ...