Department of Information Science and Media Studies
Recent Submissions
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Social network sites as arenas for public discourse : - perception, participation and experience
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-02-03)Social network sites (SNS) and Facebook, in particular, are often discussed and referred to as public spaces in popular discourse, by politicians and the media and are often theorised as such in the research literature. ... -
Why so quiet? Exploring inhibition in digital public spaces
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Social network sites have been considered as important arenas for public debate, but as a large proportion of users do not actively participate, there is a need to further our understanding of a phenomenon as hidden, ... -
Women's emotion work on Facebook: Strategic use of emotions in public discourse
(Journal article, 2021)Debates on Facebook are frequently accused of being too emotional, and rational arguments give way to anger, outrage, and polarisation. Emotions are often juxtaposed against reasoning in public deliberation, as they are ... -
A digital public sphere: Just in theory or a perceived reality for users of social network sites?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Social network sites (SNS) have the potential of providing new and more egalitarian spaces for public deliberation, and researchers, media and politicians often discuss them in those terms. Still, little attention is given ... -
Nudging Healthy Choices in Food Search Through Visual Attractiveness
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Recipe websites are becoming increasingly popular to support people in their home cooking. However, most of these websites prioritize popular recipes, which tend to be unhealthy. Drawing upon research on visual biases and ... -
Doomscrolling, Monitoring and Avoiding: News Use in COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper analyzes news use during the COVID-19 pandemic, asking how people balance between conflicting needs for information and disconnection in an extraordinary situation. We analyze empirical data from a qualitative ... -
Backward evaluation in peer assessment: A scoping review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Implementing backward evaluation as part of the peer assessment process enables students to react to the feedback they receive on their work within one peer assessment activity cycle. The emergence of online peer assessment ... -
Changing Salty Food Preferences with Visual and Textual Explanations in a Search Interface
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Salt is consumed at too high levels in the general population, causing high blood pressure and related health problems. In this paper, we present results of ongoing research that tries to reduce salt intake via technology ... -
A multivariate statistical evaluation of actual use of electronic health record systems implementations in Kenya
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Health facilities in developing countries are increasingly adopting Electronic Health Records systems (EHRs) to support healthcare processes. However, only limited studies are available that assess the actual ... -
From Abstract News Users to Living Citizens: Assessing Audience Engagement Through a Professional Lens
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Journalists’ increasing focus on news users is often seen as diverting the news agenda away from the core issues that are important to democracy. Hence, the practices of connecting journalists to the audience tend to be ... -
The Effects of the Content Elements of Online Banner Ads on Visual Attention: Evidence from An-Eye-Tracking Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The aim of this paper is to examine the influence of the content elements of online banner ads on customers’ visual attention, and to evaluate the impacts of gender, discount rate and brand familiarity on this issue. An ... -
Experiencing multimodal rhetoric and argumentation in political advertisements: a study of how people respond to the rhetoric of multimodal communication
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Research into visual and multimodal rhetoric has been dominated by social scientific and textual perspectives that may not be able to provide documented understandings of how rhetorical objects are actually experienced by ... -
Mobile Journalists as Tracable Data Objects: Surveillance Capitalism and Responsible Innovation in Mobile Journalism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article discusses how Shosana Zuboff’s critical theory of surveillance capitalism may help to understand and underpin responsible practice and innovation in mobile journalism. Zuboff conceptualizes surveillance ... -
Class and everyday media use: A case study from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In this article, we consider how contemporary media use is structured by social class, following the theoretical and methodical framework derived from Bourdieu's book Distinction, published in 1984, with a detailed study ... -
Remote Female Fixation—A Grounded Theory on Semi-Illegal Sharing of Nude Imagery Online
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In this article, we present the classic grounded theory of remote female fixation, which provides new knowledge on the illegal sharing of sexualized images of young girls in networked communities on the internet. This ... -
Expert ethos and the strength of networks: negotiations of credibility in mediated debate on COVID-19
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)For public health promotion to succeed, popular support is necessary and the chosen policies and measures have to be perceived as legitimate by the public. In other words, health authorities need to build on and sustain ... -
The Democratic Significance of Everyday News Use: Using Diaries to Understand Public Connection over Time and beyond Journalism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article argues that journalism scholars should strive to understand the democratic significance of everyday news use, and that such an interest requires us to tackle some methodological and conceptual challenges. We ... -
De farlige ulvene i grenseland: En masteroppgave om høyreekstremistiske fremmedkrigere i Ukraina
(Master thesis, 2021-12-01)Denne oppgaven omhandler hvordan det er å ha jobbet journalistisk med høyreekstremistiske fremmedkrigere. Oppgaven inneholder upublisert materiale, som er klart, og som er planlagt i A-magasinet 10. desember. Vi har to ... -
The social dilemma in artificial intelligence development and why we have to solve it
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While the demand for ethical artificial intelligence (AI) systems increases, the number of unethical uses of AI accelerates, even though there is no shortage of ethical guidelines. We argue that a possible underlying cause ... -
Framing Protest in Online News and Readers’ Comments: The Case of Serbian Protest “Against Dictatorship”
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This research examines the “protest paradigm” in the digital news environment of a politically polarized media system by considering relations between news and online readers’ comments about the Serbian protest Against ...
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