Department of Information Science and Media Studies
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Virtuality and depiction in video game representation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article seeks to clarify the role of the image in video game representation. I argue that virtuality is incompatible with depictive representation and that the distinction between virtual environments and interactive ... -
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 ... -
Realistic face manipulation by morphing with average faces
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Face manipulation has become a standard feature of many social media services. Most of these applications use the feature for entertainment purposes. However, such manipulation techniques could also have potential in a ... -
Instead of the deliberative debate : How the principle of expression plays out in the news-generated Facebook discussion
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-08-20)Social media have become an integrated part of people’s lives and are important communication channels, utilised both for personal communication and public debate. Several studies and theories suggest how the advent of ... -
Personlig politikk? - En analyse av publikums reaksjoner på tre kjente, norske politikeres selvpresentasjon på Facebook
(Master thesis, 2020-08-21)I denne oppgaven vil jeg studere og analysere tre norske topp-politikeres selvpresentasjon på Facebook og publikums respons på dette. Jeg ønsker å finne ut av hvilke elementer av autentisitet politikerne har i sin ... -
Comparing approaches to interactive lifelog search at the lifelog search challenge (LSC2018)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) is an international content retrieval competition that evaluates search for personal lifelog data. At the LSC, content-based search is performed over a multi-modal dataset, continuously ... -
Comparing Platform "Ranking Cultures" Across Languages: The Case of Islam on YouTube in Scandinavia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article is concerned with how different agencies play out in shaping public debate online and, for this purpose, employs an approach that acknowledges the role not just of algorithms seen in isolation, but in context ... -
Crowning moments: Transformative populist use of the media and the case of Carl I. Hagen
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article presents the concept of a “crowning moment” and proposes an explanation for the media-savviness of many populist leaders – an under-theorised ability often referred to in existing research. A crowning moment ... -
An evaluation of recommendation algorithms for online recipe portals
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Better models of food preferences are required to realise the oft touted potential of food recommenders to aid with the obesity crisis. Many of the food recommender evaluations in the literature have been performed with ... -
LIFER 2.0: Discovering Personal Lifelog Insights using an Interactive Lifelog Retrieval System
(Conference object; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This paper describes the participation of the Organiser Team in the ImageCLEFlifelog 2019 Solve My Life Puzzle (Puzzle) and Lifelog Moment Retrieval (LMRT) tasks. We proposed to use LIFER 2.0, an enhanced version of LIFER, ... -
Media use in changing everyday life: How biographical disruption could destabilize media repertoires and public connection
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article analyses how changing life situations affect media use, conceptualized as a question of how biographical disruption could destabilize media repertoires and public connection. To answer this question, the ... -
Populism in Scandinavian Immigration Discourse 1970–2016
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article measures and discusses populism in Scandinavian immigration debate from 1970 to 2016. Using descriptive statistical analysis and logistical regression analysis, we analyze items related to immigration in six ... -
Identity, Empathy and Argument: Immigrants in Culture and Entertainment Journalism in the Scandinavian Press
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Cultural and entertainment journalism deals with aesthetic experiences, advice on cultural consumption, as well as reflection and debate on ethical and moral humanistic issues. Does this sub-field of journalism systematically ... -
Overview of ImageCLEFlifelog 2019: Solve My Life Puzzle and Lifelog Moment Retrieval
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This paper describes ImageCLEFlifelog 2019, the third edition of the Lifelog task. In this edition, the task was composed of two subtasks (challenges): the Lifelog Moments Retrieval (LMRT) challenge that followed the same ... -
ImageCLEF 2019: Multimedia retrieval in lifelogging, medical, nature, and security applications
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Chapter; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This paper presents an overview of the foreseen ImageCLEF 2019 lab that will be organized as part of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum - CLEF Labs 2019. ImageCLEF is an ongoing evaluation initiative (started ... -
Politisk aktivisme eller ekkokammer? En studie av mannsdebatt på Facebook
(Master thesis, 2020-07-01)I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg hvordan mannssak og mannsrollen oppleves og diskuteres av menn i to ulike Facebook-grupper. Studien tar utgangspunkt i to norske grupper sentrert rundt kjønns- og likestillingsdebatt. Gruppene ... -
Distributed Readiness Citizenship: A Realistic, Normative Concept for Citizens’ Public Connection
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article argues that our view of citizens as miserably failing to maintain their role in democracy is problematic, and that the problems stem from the “informed citizen” ideal: it is too demanding, but also misses the ... -
Deliberative systems theory and citizens’ use of online media: testing a critical theory of democracy on a high achiever
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Deliberative systems theory is a promising candidate for a normative theory of democracy that combines ideal requirements with feasibility. Yet, recent theoretical elaborations and studies of citizens’ online media use ... -
Between ritual and information: Three phases of Norwegian news audiences’ sense-making of the election of Donald Trump
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article investigates sense-making processes of news audiences when faced with destabilizing global events. The destabilizing event is Trump’s 2016 election win, which we study from the perspective of audiences far ... -
Comparing Public Discourse on Immigration in Scandinavia: Some Background Notes and Preliminary Results
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article briefly presents the SCANPUB project, devoted to the comparative study of public discourse on immigration in Scandinavia from 1970 to 2016, from which this issue of Javnost/The Public stems. Its emphasis is ...
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