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Dos and dont's of Web accessibility legislation
(Master thesis, 2013-11-28)On 21 June 2013 the Norwegian government approved the regulation for the Anti-Discrimination and Accessibility Act (ADA), and new web sites that are aimed the Norwegian public were given one year to become accessible ... -
Drawing visual query images : use, users and usability of query by drawing interfaces for content based image retrieval systems
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-12-14)Query by Drawing (QBD) is an approach to Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems where users express their image needs by drawing an image representative of the images they wish to retrieve. CBIR is based on comparison ... -
Drivers of News Sharing: How Context, Content, and User Features Shape Sharing Decisions on Facebook
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)What makes people share political news on Facebook? Prior studies have identified how different features predict audiences’ likelihood to share news on social media – the so-called shareworthiness of news. However, we still ... -
Du er full - Jens. En studie av politikere Se & Hør og Her & Nå
(Master thesis, 2010-05-12)De siste tiåra er søkelyset på politikere som personer blitt stadig sterkere, mye takket være en stadig sterkere medialisering av den politiske offentlighetheten. Denne oppgaven undersøker empirisk hvordan Se & Hør og Her ... -
Du store alpakka! Komiske lærere i norsk film
(Journal article, 2004)Artikkelen er en studie av hvordan læreren er framstilt i norske filmkomedier fra 1920-tallet. Læreren er en utbredt, komisk figur fram til 1970-tallet, og analyser beskriver kjennetegn ved typen i ulike perioder. Gjennom ... -
A Dynamic Perspective on Publics and Counterpublics: The Role of the Blogosphere in Pushing the Issue of Climate Change During the 2016 US Presidential Campaign
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Climate change was hardly debated during the 2016 US presidential campaign. Against this background and building upon Fraser's concept of counterpublics (1990), this paper examines whether climate change advocates used the ... -
Dødelig Attraktivt. En retorisk analyse av IS-magasinet Dabiq og forsøket på rekruttering
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)Attempts to explain the popularity of the Islamic State (IS) and their ability to recruit Muslims, often exclude rhetoric as an aspect in the explanation. Therefore this study rhetorically examines twelve editions of the ... -
E-learning for Change in a Large Organization - Identifying Problems And Opportunities In The Implementation Of E-learning
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-06-20)Taking e-learning into use in the workplace, represents a major challenge for the adopterorganization. In practice, many e-learning implementations do not achieve the expectedoutcomes. While the mainstream literature on ... -
Eager to be in touch with the world: The Practice and Study of Rhetoric in Scandinavia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper provides an overview of the practice and study of rhetoric in Scandinavia. It describes the culture, political system, and media system of Scandinavia as a prerequisite for both the study and the practice of ... -
The effect of audio on the experience in virtual reality: a scoping review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The use of virtual reality (VR) has seen significant recent growth and presents opportunities for use in many domain areas. The use of head-mounted displays (HMDs) also presents unique opportunities for the implementation ... -
The Effect of Mutation on Explorative & Exploitative Behaviours with rt-NEAT
(Master thesis, 2017-07-08)This thesis aims to explore how different factors can affect the search performance of evolutionary algorithms. Additionally how applying different mutation techniques changes the overall search performance of rtNEAT. This ... -
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 ... -
Egalitarian judgment aggregation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Egalitarian considerations play a central role in many areas of social choice theory. Applications of egalitarian principles range from ensuring everyone gets an equal share of a cake when deciding how to divide it, to ... -
eGovernment in Norway: Are Older Users Included?
(Master thesis, 2017-06-14)There is a trend in the “western” world towards digitalization of governmental services. This process has as a goal to reduce costs in the public sector by providing more of the services digitally. Older adults are a ... -
Ekspertalarm - Dette må du vite om helsefellene
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)Ein kvantitativ og kvalitativ analyse av rettleiingsjournalistikken om kropp og helse i Dagbladet, med særleg vekt på ekspertane si rolle. Analysen tek føre seg året 2011 og peikar på utbreidde trekk og tendensar ved ... -
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 ... -
The eLuna mixed-reality visual language for co-design of narrative game-based learning trails
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Increased focus on out-of-school learning has led to extended use of Science Centers as learning arenas for junior and high school students in formal learning situations. The creation of learning trails, semantic collections ... -
eLuna: A co-design framework for narrative digital game-based learning that support STEAM
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)STEAM education enables the cross-curricular study of subjects based on their naturally occurring relationships through holistic and integrated methods. Narratives are enablers of STEAM learning environments, something ... -
“Elves are Jews with Pointy Ears and Gay Magic”: White Nationalist Readings of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper explores White Nationalist interpretations of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios 2011) through the concepts of encoding-decoding (Hall 1973) and affordances (Gibson 1977), using the White Nationalist ... -
Emphatic and Ecological Sounds in Gameworld Interfaces
(Chapter, 2017)This chapter discusses the weaknesses and strengths of the concepts and theories that are commonly used to understand game sound, and describes a gameplay-sensitive, ecological perspective based on the idea of gameworld ...