Department of Information Science and Media Studies
Recent Submissions
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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 ... -
A Systematic Method for Evaluating Implementations of Electronic Medical Records Systems in Low- and Medium-Income Countries
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-12-09)Background: Implementations of Electronic Medical Record systems (EMRs) in healthcare industry in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (LMICs) have been on the rise in recent years driven by the promise of improvements in ... -
Towards Responsible Media Recommendation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Reading or viewing recommendations are a common feature on modern media sites. What is shown to consumers as recommendations is nowadays often automatically determined by AI algorithms, typically with the goal of helping ... -
Investigating the impact of recommender systems on user-based and item-based popularity bias
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Recommender Systems are decision support tools that adopt advanced algorithms in order to help users to find less-explored items that can be interesting for them. While recommender systems may offer a range of attractive ... -
Developing a Software Reference Architecture for Journalistic Knowledge Platforms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)For news organizations to survive and thrive in today’s media landscape, they must utilize big data and artificial intelligence technologies effectively. News organizations that want to exploit techniques like machine ...
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