Department of Information Science and Media Studies
Recent Submissions
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The Genre of the Royal Crisis Address: Six European Monarchs’ Rhetorical Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article offers a rhetorical analysis of the addresses delivered by six Northern European monarchs in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. The analysis establishes a new genre with distinctive traits and ... -
Digital influence, digital platforms and disconnected presence : Long-form leisure reading in the era of ubiquitous digital connectivity
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-11-24)Avhandlingen utforsker hva digitalisering gjør med lesing og utgivelse av litteratur som leses for sin egen del. Det handler om langlesing av litteratur for allmennmarkedet og hvordan kontinuerlig digital påkobing preger ... -
Meaningful Engagement with Digital Health Interventions : Experience, Participation and Design
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-11-17)Avhandlingen utforsker meningsfylt engasjement (engelsk: engagement) med digitale helseintervensjoner (DHI). Med dette tar avhandlingen sikte på å utvide engasjementsbegrepet fra et erfaringsmessig perspektiv, spesielt med ... -
A software reference architecture for journalistic knowledge platforms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Newsrooms and journalists today rely on many different artificial-intelligence, big-data and knowledge-based systems to support efficient and high-quality journalism. However, making the different systems work together ... -
Journalistic Knowledge Platforms: from Idea to Realisation
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-10-23)Journalistiske kunnskapsplattformer (JKPer) er en type intelligente informasjonssystemer designet for å forbedre nyhetsproduksjonsprosesser ved å kombinere stordata, kunstig intelligens (KI) og kunnskapsbaser for å støtte ... -
Parralel Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network for Abnormal Heart Sound Classification
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This paper presents the results of a study performed on Parallel Convolutional Neural Network (PCNN) toward detecting heart abnormalities from the heart sound signals. The PCNN preserves dynamic contents of the signal in ... -
The Expressivity of Quantified Group Announcements
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Group announcement logic (GAL) and coalition announcement logic (CAL) allow us to reason about whether it is possible for groups and coalitions of agents to achieve their desired epistemic goals through truthful public ... -
Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This short paper discusses people’s news experiences before, during and after societal crisis situations, contributing with a sequential typology outlining the three phases ritual check-in, shocked immersion and regained ... -
Detecting bots with temporal logic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Social bots are computer programs that act like human users on social media platforms. Social bot detection is a rapidly growing field dominated by machine learning approaches. In this paper, we propose a complementary ... -
Recurrent vs Non-Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks for Heart Sound Classification
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been widely proposed for different tasks of heart sound analysis. This paper presents the results of a novel study on the performance of a conventional CNN in comparison to the different ... -
User Needs of Young Czech Adults with Multiple Sclerosis in a Lifestyle App Design
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This paper presents a study that examined desired functionality, content, and design of a mobile application for young Czech adults living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The study was structured around a high-fidelity ... -
The Jiminy Advisor:Moral Agreements among StakeholdersBased on Norms and Argumentation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)An autonomous system is constructed by a manufacturer, operates in a society subject to norms and laws, and interacts with end users. All of these actors are stakeholders affected by the behavior of the autonomous system. ... -
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 ... -
eLuna : A Co-Design Framework for Mixed Reality Narrative Game- Based Learning
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-09-29)De siste tiårs utvidede fokus på læring utenfor skolen har bidratt til økt anvendelse av vitensentre som læringsarena for barn i grunnskole og videregående utdanning. En læringsløype er en type integrert læringsmiljø der ... -
Operationalizing distribution as a key concept for public sphere theory. A call for ethnographic sensibility of different social worlds
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article takes issue with public sphere theories’ lack of focus on the consequences of social inequality. Citizens divide the work of following politics between them, and we need a cohesive conceptualization of such ... -
One More Turn after the Algorithmic Turn? Spotify’s Colonization of the Online Audio Space
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In the last decade, development of algorithmic recommendation systems has constituted the main competitive factor between music streaming services. In this article, we identify how a new turn, labelled ‘the auxiliary ... -
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this study, we extend the literature on the rally ‘round the flag phenomenon, that is, that international crises tend to cause an increase in citizens’ approval of political institutions. We advance this literature and ... -
Construction of a relevance knowledge graph with application to the LOCAL news angle
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)News angles are approaches to journalism content often used to provide a way to present a new report from an event. One particular type of news angle is the LOCAL news angle where a local news outlet focuses on an event ... -
Identifying Token-Level Dialectal Features in Social Media
(Chapter, 2023)Dialectal variation is present in many human languages and is attracting a growing interest in NLP. Most previous work concentrated on either (1) classifying dialectal varieties at the document or sentence level or (2) ... -
Trustworthy journalism through AI
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Quality journalism has become more important than ever due to the need for quality and trustworthy media outlets that can provide accurate information to the public and help to address and counterbalance the wide and rapid ...