Department of Media and Social Sciences (SV-IMS): Recent submissions
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Overvåkningskapitalismens gryende problemer i kjølvannet av Cambridge Analytica-skandalen: - Et innblikk i atferdsdata og dens maktdannelse
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)Denne oppgaven har hovedfokus på hvordan overvåkningskapitalismen skaper atferdsdata som er med på å danne et maktforhold mellom teknologiselskaper og bruker. Det begynner med Shoshana Zuboffs bok om overvåkningskapitalismen, ... -
Omsorgens manglende anerkjennelse - Småbarnsmødres opplevde forventninger om arbeidsdeltakelse
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)Kvinner har i mange tiår kjempet for bedre rettigheter og økt likestilling (Lønnå, 2003). I dagens familiepolitikk er det nå ønskelig at kvinner skal delta i arbeidslivet, men samtidig bidra til å tilfredsstille familiens ... -
Burde demokratier implementere stemmerett gjennom loddtrekning?
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)Denne artikkelen vil presentere flere i hovedsak instrumentelle argumenter for og i mot stemmerett gjennom loddtrekning. Artikkelen vil bli basert på noen normative premiss, nemlig "kompetanseprinsippet" og "det som følger ... -
A Recast Framework for Welfare Deservingness Perceptions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)Many important societal debates revolve around questions of deservingness, especially when it comes to debates related to inequality and social protection. It is therefore unsurprising that a growing body of research ... -
‘Which side are you on – Mr. Westerberg?’ Reason, affect, and division in public debate
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)This article studies affect and reason in practices of persuasion through a rhetorical-performative framework. Focusing on the Swedish economic crisis 1988–1993, this piece argues that the successful rise and installation ... -
Scales of energy justice: Solar power and energy poverty alleviation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03)The threats climate change poses require rapid and wide decarbonization efforts in the energy sector. Historically, large-scale energy operations, often instrumental for a scaled and effective approach to meet decarbonization ... -
Risk perception in newspaper chains: Threats, uncertainties and corporate boundary work
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)This article presents an analysis of risk perception among chain newspaper CEOs in Scandinavia. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the analysis finds that risk is perceived in relation to public trust, corporate ... -
En seers tilnærming til karakterer i personlig dokumentar: En sammenligningsanalyse av Røverdatter, Minding the Gap og Tenåringssjokket
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-12-14)Jeg vil undersøke dokumentarene Røverdatter (Sofia Haugan, Norge, 2018, 86´), Minding the Gap (Bing Liu, USA, 2018, 93´) og Tenåringssjokket (Ann-Iren Finstad og Roy Kenneth Sydnes Jacobsen, Norge, 2018, 39´). Røverdatter ... -
The prospects of blue and green hydrogen in Norway for energy export
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-01-15)As the threat of climate change impacts looms, with global temperatures rising to 1.5oC as early as 2030, the need for rapid low-carbon energy transition is more urgent than ever. As a global leader in climate change ... -
Når historie iscenesettes
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-12-15)I denne masteroppgaven har jeg undersøkt hvordan samspillet mellom fakta og fiksjon i NRKs tv-serie 22. juli er. Hensikten har vært å finne ut hvilke dokumentariske grep serien bruker, for å oppnå troverdighet. For å gi ... -
Agency in compliance with institutions: The case of professional expert-organizations and politico-ethical agency
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06)As contemporary organizational life is increasingly rule governed, organizational actors, most notably professionals, perform their work by complying with institutional rules, stemming from regulatory bodies external and ... -
Hva skjedde ved valget : Nasjonale trender og lokale variasjoner
(Chapter, 2021-06)The aim of this chapter is to provide a broad overview of national trends and local variations at the 2019 local elections – the first elections to be held in the new, merged municipalities and counties. Looking at the ... -
Does Assimilation Shape the Economic Value of Immigrant Diversity?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04)A growing literature has shown that greater diversity among immigrants offers material benefits in terms of higher wages and productivity. One limitation of existing work is that it has considered immigrants from a given ... -
Sustainable development goal interactions for a just transition: multi-scalar solar energy rollout in Portugal
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)Solar energy rollout has environmental and socio-economic impacts vital for just low-carbon energy transitions. The modular characteristics of solar photovoltaics enable multi-scalar deployment. How do environmental and ... -
The symbol of social media in contemporary protest: Twitter and the Gezi Park movement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07)This article explores how Twitter has emerged as a signifier of contemporary protest. Using the concept of ‘social media imaginaries’, a derivative of the broader field of ‘media imaginaries’, our analysis seeks to offer ... -
Habitus, campus experience, and graduate employment: personal advancement of middle-class students in China
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In the harsh Chinese graduate labor market, urban, middle-class students continue to outpace those from rural, underprivileged backgrounds in job access and occupational attainment. Literature attributes this graduate ... -
Can we expect corporations to care about climate change?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-12)Climate change represents one of the greatest challenges of our time, and in the recent decade, the attention of this issue has grown exponentially. The focus has to a large degree shifted from debating if human behaviour ... -
Digital transformasjon eller digital translasjon? - En casestudie av implementering av digitale verktøy i Mellomstor kommune
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-12)“Digital darwinisme” har blitt et begrep som beskriver nødvendigheten av å digitalisere i alle dagens organisasjoner. Digitalisering skal gi gevinster som effektivisering og kostnadsredusering og har derfor også fått økt ... -
Popular Attitudes Towards the Distribution of Vaccines Against COVID-19: The Swiss Case
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)With the arrival of vaccines against the novel coronavirus in late 2020, the issue of how vaccines should be distributed and which groups should be prioritized has become salient. We study popular attitudes toward the ... -
The non-substitutability of local news? Advertising and the decline of journalism's umbrella market model
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)This article addresses the challenges facing local newspapers as the digital economy transitions to artificial intelligence (AI). We interview five CEOs of Scandinavian newspaper corporations, representing small, mid-sized, ...