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Images of Transgressions: Visuals as Reconstructed Evidence in Digital Investigative Journalism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The epistemic authority of journalism has undergone significant theorization and empirical investigations in past years. This article contributes to this growing body of scholarship by analyzing how collected images and ... -
Immersion Journalism. How VICE Media Challenges the Norms, Methods, and Ideals of Mainstream Journalism
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)In this thesis we will be looking at a certain phenomenon within journalism, which despite its long history, has a marginal presence in what we would call mainstream' journalism. The phenomenon of Immersion Journalism can ... -
The immigration debate in the Scandinavian press 1970-2016
(Research report, 2023)The analysis of the Scandinavian immigration discourse from 1970 to 2016 in the newspapers reveals that the arrival of new groups of immigrants led to a widespread and broad debate in the Scandinavian press. Some shared ... -
The Immigration Issue and the vox Populi: Letters to the Editor in six Scandinavian Newspapers 1970–2016
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Letters to the editor are argued to be a staple of the public sphere and, by providing regular citizens with a platform to voice their concerns to a large audience, a central democratic function of a liberal press. However, ... -
Impact of Electronic Medical Records Systems in Reporting HIV Health Data Indicators in Kenya
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Electronic Medical Records Systems (EMRs) improve the quality of patient care and reduce medical errors. Nevertheless, their role in health data indicator reporting performance is unclear. We assessed reporting completeness ... -
The Impact of Interface and Gameworld Design on Player Experience - The Case of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
(Master thesis, 2017-07-08)This thesis was carried out within the Games and Transgressive Aesthetics project, located at the department of Information Science and Media Studies, at the University of Bergen. The goals for this project is however ... -
Implementing the OWL Reasoner in the Virtual Knowledge Graph System Ontop
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Ontop is a well-known framework designed to facilitate ontology-based data access. It supports two major APIs: RDF4J API for query answering and the SPARQL endpoint, and OWL API for editing ontology and mapping in the ... -
Implementing Web Accessibility Policy. Case Studies of the United Kingdom, Norway, and the United States
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-25)The development of information and communication technology (ICT) has had the unintended effect of producing inequalities between people with disabilities, who experience barriers using ICT, and others. Despite the efforts ... -
Improving image retrieval with a thesaurus for shapes. The VORTEX prototyp.
(Master thesis, 2004)Successful retrieval of relevant images from large-scale image collections is one of the current problems in the field of data management. In this paper, I propose a system which combines techniques from Computer Vision, ... -
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 ... -
Improving usefulness and ease of use for a prototype tool for journalists
(Master thesis, 2018-06-21)This thesis presents the work done on making a prototype tool for journalists more useful and easier to use through continuous improvements and evaluations. The work builds on the thesis News Hunter: a semantic news ... -
Improving user experience in StateCraft
(Master thesis, 2010-06-01)User experience is an important aspect of game development, and techniques in Artificial Intelligence have been proved to increase the agent performance and have the potential to affect user experience in games. In this ... -
Indymedia - Journalistic Anarchy on the WWW
(Master thesis, 2005)As with all new media technologies, the establishment and growth of the Word Wide Web in the 1990s sparked optimism in civil society. Instead of solely relying on their marginalised existence in mainstream media and/or ... -
#Influencer. En kvalitativ studie av influenceres rolle i unge kvinners liv
(Master thesis, 2019)På kort tid har bloggere gått fra å være unge jenter som skriver dagbok på jenterommet, til influencere og medieaktører med millioninntekt. Det er blitt svært populært å følge med på såkalte influencere, kanskje spesielt ... -
Informal Caregivers and Psychosocial Support: Analysis of European Dementia Policy Documents
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Various countries in Europe have different strategies for promoting care solutions for dementia challenges. The different approaches of Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Gibraltar, Ireland, Israel, ... -
Informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi i tannhelsetjenesten - utvikling og evaluering av en prototyp for KVIT-prosjektet
(Master thesis, 2004)Denne oppgaven omhandler utvikling og evaluering av en internettbasert prototyp for forskningsprosjektet KVIT. KVIT står for kvalitetsutvikling i tannlegepraksis, og er et samarbeid mellom Den kommunale tandpleje i Danmark, ... -
Informasjonsgjenfinning og visualisering av relasjoner i norsk popmusikk
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)Utforskning i og tilgang til innhold i norsk popmusikk er et stort interesseområde med flere aktive aktører. Akademiske, kommersielle og private aktører er interessert i å forstå norsk popmusikk, oppdage interessante mønstre ... -
Information and Communication Technology Appropriation: ECUADOR
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Information system for postmarket surveillance of total joint prostheses
(Master thesis, 2014-05-31)The storage, integration and presentation of clinical data is an important aspect of any modern medical research. The Biomaterials research group at the Haukeland University Hospital uses both their own locally generated ... -
Information Technologies for Cognitive Decline
(Studies in Health Technology and Informatics;295, Chapter, 2022)Information technology (IT) is used to establish diagnosis and provide treatments for people with cognitive decline. The condition affects many before it becomes clear that more permanent changes, like dementia, could be ...