Historically, the role of journalism in society is bound to the prevailing conceptualization of the freedom of the press, specific societal, institutional, and material conditions of news production. This study explores ...

Recommender systems are among the most widely used applications of artificial intelligence. Because of their widespread use, it is important that practitioners and researchers think about the impact they may have on users, ...

This thesis explores the representations of gender in the miniature tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000. Warhammer 40,000 is the world's most popular miniature wargame, and has spawned a sprawling transmedia franchise including ...

Abstract This thesis proposes and explores three strategies for aggregating individual preferences: the non-contentious, majority, and plurality methods. The proposed methods rely on the lexicographic rule but use a ...

What do the PhD candidates think of their supervisors’ supervising styles? What practices do they see as characteristic of their primary supervisors, and how does this compare to their own preferred style of supervision? ...

Denne avhandlingen handler om innovasjon i mobiljournalistikk, og utforsker hvordan profesjonelle TV- og avisjournalister bruker smarttelefoner som journalistisk produksjonsverktøy. I tillegg reflekteres kritisk over ...

This master’s thesis describes a new waste identification technique, adapted from the Process Tracing sub-method Explaining Outcome described in Beach et al. (2013). The aim of the technique is to enable development teams, ...

As social network sites have become a central part of the modern media landscape, they have also become important arenas for political talk between citizens. The possibilities these new arenas offer for social interaction ...