This study is a Mixed Method Study where we combine elements of qualitative and quantitative research approaches to investigate Kids’ Digital Lives During COVID-19 Times (KiDiCoTi) a research project coordinated by the ...

There has been a recent surge of interest in social chatbots, and human–chatbot relationships (HCRs) are becoming more prevalent, but little knowledge exists on how HCRs develop and may impact the broader social context ...

The objective of this chapter is to describe and discuss some important political journalism development trends in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The term political journalism traditionally refers to news, commentaries, ...

Covid-19 pandemic impacted the lives of most children in Europe dramatically. The lockdown affecting most European countries in spring 2020 saw the sudden shift of most children's activities into the digital world. Since ...

This article investigates the experiential affordances of watching online TV as outcomes of the material underpinnings of online TV and the actions taken by viewers. Potential experiential changes derive from how online ...

This chapter focuses on data and algorithms and highlights a technical as well as historical, cultural, political and economic understanding of the 'datafied' and algorithmically constructed present. In one of the first ...

Although social support is important for health and well-being, many young people are hesitant to reach out for support. The emerging uptake of chatbots for social and emotional purposes entails opportunities and concerns ...

I denne masteroppgaven analyserer jeg formidling av nevrovitenskap i artikler publisert i det populærvitenskapelige magasinet National Geographic. I artiklene, som ofte bærer et visst aktualitetspreg, belyses forskjellige ...

While the normative debate on the “ideal” public sphere is ongoing and did not reach any form of agreement since Jürgen Habermas’s thesis publication in 1962, the study of public spheres in actually existing democracies ...

De siste årene har vist en stor oppblomstring av målspesifikke norske ungdomsserier. I ettertid av suksess-serien SKAM (2015-2017) har allmennkringkasteren NRK stått for skapelsen av flere konsepter som eksperimenterer med ...

Debatten om kjøtt har de senere årene fått stor oppmerksomhet. Denne masteroppgaven analyserer en liten del av debatten ved å undersøke hvilke tolkningsrammer om kjøtt den norske kjøttbransjen, EAT Foundation og mediene ...

Klimaendringer er vanskelig å visualisere. Det skyldtes blant annet av endringer i klimaet over tid som ofte ikke kan observeres direkte. For mange kan bildene av klimaendringer virke abstrakte og fjerntliggende, der ...

Denne studien undersøker hvorvidt, og eventuelt hvordan, nettpatruljen i Sør-Vest politidistrikt bygger relasjoner med publikum gjennom dialog på sosiale medier. Dialog beskrives som «noe mer» enn kun toveiskommunikasjon, ...

Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan død fungerer og presenteres i dataspillet The Sims 4. Gjennom en tekstanalyse av spillets grensesnitt, objekter, karakterer og lagringsfunksjon diskuteres det hvilke ideer om død som ...

Masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan sosiale medier påvirker forholdet mellom politiske journalister og politikere. Forholdet anses å være et avhengighetsforhold hvor politiske journalister søker informasjonen politikere har, ...

Insurance companies are increasingly harnessing self-tracking data to innovate and create new health and life insurance schemes. These schemes are often hailed as social innovations, and a major growth opportunity for the ...

Denne masteroppgaven handler om hvordan man lobbyerer i et høyregulert marked: norsk alkoholpolitikk. Det er en kvalitativ case-studie som undersøker hvordan Bryggeri- og drikkevareforeningen lobbyerte i sine to siste ...

I denne oppgaven studeres hvordan enkelte av Norges nettaviser forholder seg bruk av algoritmer for personalisering av innhold. Mer presist undersøkes det om i hvilken grad nyhetsredaksjoner personaliserer, og videre hva ...

I denne oppgaven har jeg sett på omdømmeoppturen Norges herrelandslag i fotball hadde mellom 2016-2018, som presentert i VG-artikkelen fra 13. november 2018 Sjekk den oppturen: Landslagets omdømme i kraftig bedring. I ...

Enterprise sosiale plattformer [ESP] er en viktig arena for digital kommunikasjon og samhandling internt og eksternt i bedrifter. Flere norske bedrifter har tatt i bruk Slack og Microsoft Teams. Bruk av sosiale medier i ...

The focus of the study is on production of media content, and it was conducted using a practical-theoretical approach. The practical part involves the making of MOJO! A mobile documentary about mobile journalism, filmed ...

Our purpose with this Special Issue is to present and contribute to a body of research that critically explores the relationship between media innovation and social change. In doing so, we also outline the contours of a ...

This research is an identity-focus analysis of the Danish cartoon crisis in Turkish Islamic newspapers. Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons visually depicting Islam Prophet Mohammed on 30 September ...

I denne masteroppgaven studeres TV-serie-diskurser i TV-podkaster, produsert av fans, om Skam og Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Begrepet som brukes om denne typen podkaster er fanpodkaster, og studien fokuserer på hva podkastverter ...

Summary This report presents the findings about Norwegian adolescents’ experiences with sexual messages, including sending/ receiving such messages, and their feelings about those experiences, drawing on data collected in ...

This thesis studies the differences in the Norwegian and Swedish media coverage of the international and national video game industries, and the possible consequences of said differences. It does so by using a theoretical ...

Music streaming enables the tracking of listening behavior in more detail than any previous music-distribution format. While it is well known that streaming services collect troves of data, little is known about how ...

This article explores implications of the central position of the smartphone in an age of constant connectivity. Based on a qualitative study of 50 informants, we ask how users experience and handle temporal ambivalences ...

BACKGROUND: The #MeToo movement ignited in October 2017 when American actor Alyssa Milano encouraged survivors of sexual harassment and assault to share their personal experiences on social media using the hashtag ‘metoo’ ...

Denne masteroppgaven undersøker personvern og presseetikk i #metoo-saker. Studien er en komparativ analyse av dekningen i Norge og Sverige, og baserer seg på kvalitative intervjuer med norske og svenske journalister som ...

Denne studien undersøker ulikhetene i Høyreavisen Morgenbladets og Venstreavisen Dagbladets omtale og dekning av Norges første sivile ulydighetsaksjon med fokus på naturvern. Ettersom det var den første store direkte ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker en konflikt om reklame for utenlandske pengespill på norske TV-skjermer. I mai 2020 vedtok Stortinget en lovendring som kan gi myndighetene mulighet for å stanse reklame for utenlandske ...

This study examined emotions of news and comments from a famous Norwegian newspaper called Verdens Gang’s (VG) Facebook public page. The data set for analysis contains 84 news items and 7876 comments collected from the new ...

I denne oppgaven analyseres forholdet mellom papirboka og e-boka i dagens mediesamfunn. Man ser nye trender i bokverden ti år etter e-bokas store oppblomstring, og balansen mellom papirboka og e-boka er i stadig endring. ...

Nye medier bruker i økende grad algoritmebaserte anbefalingssystemer for å gi innhold eller produktforslag rettet mot brukerens preferanser. På strømmetjenestene Netflix og Spotify kan brukeren få forslag til filmer, serier ...

Denne studien har undersøkt norske mediers fremstilling av norsk bistandshjelp til afrikanske land sør for Sahara i norsk presse i 2017. Fokuset i studien er hvordan lokalbefolkningen i de afrikanske landene fremstilles i ...

This report presents the findings from a survey of children aged 9–16 from 19 European countries. The data were collected between autumn 2017 and summer 2019 from 25,101 children by national teams from the EU Kids Online ...

I denne studien sammenliknes dramaturgien i pilotepisoder fra Netflix-originalserier, der alle episoder av en sesong slippes samtidig, med dramaturgien i pilotepisoder laget for lineær-TV. Studien fokuserer spesielt på ...

Advanced democracies experience a decline in political trust at the same time as television news is developing with an increased focus on political strategy and horse-race reporting during elections. Communication scholars ...

This thesis explored how artificial intelligence (AI), media platforms, and media users affect practices of fashion trend forecasting. Fashion trend forecasting is an essential part of the fashion system. Forecasters provide ...

Music streaming services all provide affordable and easy access to massive databases of music and instead attempt to increase customer loyalty by optimizing personalized recommendations and offering opportunities for ...

This article discusses the conditions for making policy change, and, more precisely, factors explaining why policy change is often hard to achieve even when key policy actors explicitly throw their weight behind it. It ...

Netflix and other streaming platforms have permanently changed both the way we consume film and television, and its content. One could even say that the recent rise of the streaming age is one of the big, significant turning ...

On Friday, 15th March 2019, a series of terror attacks occurred in the City of Christchurch. Targeted places were mosques, during Friday prayer, and attacks were carried out by one perpetrator, who later identified himself ...

Conspiracy theories thrive in today’s overly saturated media landscape, where media consumers constantly are bombarded with an abundance of information from both mainstream and alternative outlets. Facing this scenario, ...

The term ‘think tank’ represents a heterogeneous concept and is used to characterise a diverse group of organisations. This diversity also characterises the Swedish organisations and institutions that currently fall under ...

Ministerial advisors (MAs) have become an essential aspect of executive branches worldwide, thus making the MA office a potential route for young politicians aspiring to an expanding political class. The article studies ...

This article explores how personal experience in the form of human interest stories has become a road to visibility, legitimacy, and impact for organizational actors and interest groups. Focusing on news media representations ...

The thesis investigated a possible link between creativity and audiences’ preference to films genre. In study 1, n= 712 participants n=267 males and n=445 females completed a paper-based survey where participants rated ...

Denne oppgaven søker å belyse hvordan mediedekningen av reality-tv i norske aviser opprettholder klassestrukturer i samfunnet ved å bruke Skeggs (1997, 2004) og Bourdieus (1977, 1979, 1986) teorier om kulturelle klasseskiller, ...

Sammendrag Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg hvordan dyr i reklamefilm for kjøtt blir representert, og hvilket bilde dette gir av kjøttindustrien i Norge. Studien tar utgangspunkt i tre reklamefilmer: Griseløftet - Vi setter ...

I denne masteroppgaven studeres norsk utenrikstjenestes kommunikasjonsarbeid rettet mot sivilt samfunn og presse. Oppgaven bygger på en deltakende observasjon ved det kgl. norske generalkonsulat i New York City, og en ...

For chatbots to be broadly adopted by users, it is critical that they are experienced as useful and pleasurable. While there is an emerging body of research concerning user uptake and use of chatbots, there is a lack of ...

In recent years, mainstream print media are constantly in the transition towards digital, including social, media outlets. The key motive of the increasing media platform integration is the need to uphold both journalistic ...

Scholars claim that civil servants are increasingly having to engage in media management and be aware of how events are presented in the press, with this media awareness being said to threaten civil servants’ traditional ...

Algorithms are an increasingly important element of internet infrastructure in that they are used to make decisions about everything from mundane music recommendations through to more profound and oftentimes life changing ...

Kunstig intelligens, stordata og algoritmer er globale fenomener som berører mange bransjer. Over de siste årene har kunstig intelligente stordataverktøy inntatt norske kommunikasjonsbyråer. Denne studien har sett nærmere ...

The well-known “high-choice news avoidance thesis” and the alternative “network structure perspective” stipulate somewhat conflicting expectations about news consumption in today’s digital media systems. Based on annual ...

The computational turn leads to a robo-philosophy that uses computational and robotic technologies as testbeds for philosophical questions such as the nature of being human. Robo-theology extends these approaches and ...

The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a prominent international initiative promoting open and responsive government. This includes efforts to socialize norms for civic participation in government institutions. Noting ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new collaboration between the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) and the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES). Design/methodo ...

This article focuses on the prominence of dirt and excrements in online male subcultures. It offers an understanding of both the computer nerd cultures of the 4chan forum and Incel (acronym for “Involuntary celibate”) ...

An organization’s social license to operate depends on how it acts according to social norms, engages with stakeholders, and meets some kind of public interest. As will be discussed, the notion of the public interest is ...

This deliverable consists of two main parts: a literature review on the four main research areas DigiGen is about (family life, leisure time, education and civic participation) and an overview of existing databases in ...

Summary This report presents the findings about Norwegian adolescents’ experiences with sexual content, including how many saw sexual content, what they consider to be sexual content, where they saw it, how they felt about ...

Purpose There is a great potential in pulling together science communication and strategic communication, especially given how the former has gained importance in organizational contexts. Strategic communication, including ...

Abstract The extended reliance on media can be seen as one indicator of mediatization. But even though we can assume that the pervasive character of digital media essentially changes the way people experience ...

Abstract Based on a literature review, this article shows that current mediatization scholarship is characterized by what Pike (1967) refers to as etic accounts. These accounts forward theoretical categories on ...

This article investigates the motives for entering a digital fan community and becoming a fan for the first time—and, subsequently, leaving it again—by focusing on these fans’ main entry and exit points. It looks at the ...

Facebook’s goal for their “News Feed is to show everyone the right content at the right time so they don’t miss the stories that are important to them.” In a mediated environment obsessed with real-time–of near instantaneous ...

This essay makes the claim that there is nothing to disconnect from in the digital world, and that the logic of machine learning provides the most obvious empirical case for this. Drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy’s concept of ...

Although framing theory has been extensively studied in strategic communication comparatively, little is known about how trade unions, as a specific type of organization, use framing strategies to achieve their organizational ...

This article seeks to explain the emergence of a local protest movement against an asylum seeker center (“asielzoekerscentrum” or AZC in Dutch) in the Beverwaard neighborhood in the city of Rotterdam (NL). Based on the ...

As digital natives, young people are familiar with seeking help through online media. Conventional research has studied youth online help seeking through survey and interview, yet it is now available to approach their ...

Discussions about Iranian journalism have disproportionately focused upon the restrictive political context of the country. Accordingly, journalism culture and the way journalists construct their roles and identities in ...

This article investigates the influence of online communications platforms on Iranian journalists’ struggle for countering the restrictions, and achieving their journalistic ends. Based on 26 interviews with journalists ...

This chapter argues that research on media innovations benefits from combining insights and concepts from the business literature with the critical theory approach typical of media and communication studies. Business, ...

In this chapter I give an account of the first ten years of the history of digital self-tracking (2007–2017) and bring to the fore an authoritarian dimension emerging from the current phase in its development. Adding a ...

Emotions, such as anger and fear, have been shown to influence people’s political behavior. However, few studies link emotions specifically to how people debate political issues and seek political information online. In ...

Kan man påvirke fortellinger i dataspill? Denne masteroppgaven handler om valg og konsekvenser innen historiebaserte dataspill. Oppgavens problemstillingen fokuserer på hvilken funksjon valgene har, og i hvilken grad valgene ...