For smaller nations without hard power resources, nation branding and public diplomacy present opportunities to gain influence in international politics. The coverage of countries in international media can influence how ...

Facebook and other social media sites offer suitable forums for political parties to express political views and ideas through their social media accounts and pages. This thesis determined to understand how the political ...

Calls for public engagement and participation in AI governance align strongly with a public value management approach to public administration. Simultaneously, the prominence of commercial vendors and consultants in AI ...

Sammendrag: Det amerikanske presidentvalget fenger stort i Norge, og er en av de viktigste nyhetshendelsene hvert fjerde år. Norske medier har korrespondenter i USA for å dekke det fascinerende landet. Denne oppgaven har ...

Hva kjennetegner god klimajournalistikk? Klimaendringer er et komplekst tema å formidle, og journalister spiller en avgjørende rolle i hvordan informasjon om kompliserte tema formidles til den øvrige befolkningen. Denne ...

Focusing on one best practice guide document from both the United Kingdom and Germany as case studies ("A Screen New Deal" and "Ökologische Mindeststandards"), the thesis investigates how the British and German film ...

This chapter aims to provide students and scholars with an overview of key theoretical approaches to the study of religion and media, with a focus on the now dominant and still evolving digital media. It explores the ...

En viktig faktor for at en eiendomsutvikler skal kunne lykkes i sitt boligprosjekt, er god interessenthåndtering i tidligfasen. Her vil bruk av strategi i markedet, strategisk kommunikasjon innen interessenthåndtering, ...

I this paper I will discuss about the experience of wearing head-mounted device for extended reality and will compare it to the experience of wearing glasses. If for a long time the screens were compared to windows for ...

Despite being worried that children may compromise their privacy by disclosing too much personal data online, many parents paradoxically share pictures and information about their children <em>themselves</em>, ...

Why does music listening in streaming services seem tied to a superstar economy despite the plenitude of digital music? This article explores what we label the streaming paradox: the way in which plenitude at the outset ...

Abstract In consensus democracies, interest organizations are likely to pursue their goals by attempting to create goodwill to strengthen their relationships with politicians. Through an exploratory analysis based on ...

Ethics, explainability, responsibility, and accountability are important concepts for questioning the societal impacts of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI), but are insufficient to guide the public sector ...

Use of conversational artificial intelligence (AI), such as humanlike social chatbots, is increasing. While a growing number of people is expected to engage in intimate relationships with social chatbots, theories and ...

Sakte-TV er en type TV-program som har vokst frem på kanalene til NRK siden 2009 der en historie fortelles, minutt for minutt, over lang tid. Programmene har blitt populære og fått høy oppslutning i seertall tross programmenes ...

Despite public discourses highlighting the negative consequences of time spent online (TSO) for children’s well-being, Norwegian children (aged 9–16 years) use the Internet more than other European children and score higher ...

The concept of transparency has been problematized in risk research. This exploratory study contributes to the risk literature by considering an established three-dimensional transparency framework (information substantiality, ...

Nyhetssaker om at mennesker som trenger hjelp, ikke får den omsorgen eller helsetilbudet de har krav på, starter ofte nært dem det gjelder – i lokalmediene eller på sosiale medier. Denne artikkelen belyser ulike kilders ...

In a landscape that is continuously growing, the TV-streaming consumers are faced with multiple options and decisions to what content and/or service they want to stream. TV- streaming services are not new, but most research ...

I denne oppgaven møter du seks studenter. Studietiden er for mange en sosial og aktiv del av livet. Unge mennesker flytter til nye studiesteder og etablerer nye vennskap. Det er gjerne en søkende periode av livet. En stor ...

Convergence and participatory culture have been conducive to a wave of new user-generated content. This thesis focuses on one specific facet of this phenomenon called the ‘reaction video’. In such videos, primarily uploaded ...

Access to resources, wealth, and power positions varies systematically with membership in social categories. This article asks what role the elites themselves – as holders of power and regulators of access to influential ...

Research has shown a correlation between votes for populist parties and the belief that vaccines are not important or effective. More recent investigations in the United States and France have similarly shown that attitudes ...

Social chatbots have become more advanced, paving the way for human–chatbot relationships (HCRs). Although this phenomenon has already received some research attention, the results have been contradictory, and there is ...

Describing the ever-changing political climate in Poland as eventful, could be easily perceived as an understatement – especially in the past 40 years. From the introduction of the Martial Law in 1981 to nowadays’ democratic ...

Photography has entered the virtual. In-game photography, referred to as the practice of capturing video game worlds photographically, has received growing consideration in the last few years. Deprived of its main component, ...

Denne oppgaven omhandler hvordan VG, TV 2 og Aftenposten vurderte og reflekterte rundt de presseetiske spørsmålene under mediedekningen av Bertheussen-saken. Skillet mellom allmenninteresse og privatlivets fred befinner ...

In this thesis, I analyze the web sleuth and its depictions in the contemporary true crime documentaries I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. Web sleuths – private citizens who conduct ...

Dette forskningsprosjektet undersøkte holdninger til COVID-19-vaksinen i Norge våren 2022, og særlig vaksineskeptikere. Studien ble gjennomført ved en målrettet rekrutteringsprosess i lukkede grupper på Facebook, ble det ...

Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg hvordan det har vært å være koronasmittet ungdom under COVID-19 pandemien i Norge. Ungdommer har fått stor medieoppmerksomhet under pandemien; de har blitt fremstilt som uansvarlige, festglade ...

Oppgavens hensikt er å skape en bedre forståelse av hvordan prissituasjonen og NRKs posisjon som allmenkringkaster påvirker NRKs strategi og mulighet til å sikre seg sportsrettigheter. Jeg vil finne ut hva som er NRK sin ...

In 2015, the United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a framework consisting of 17 goals to achieve a more sustainable future within 2030. The SDGs strengthen the role of sustainability in business, ...

This thesis has looked at the Norwegian Armed Forces rhetorical situation and their use of topoi to argue that the F35 fighter is the best choice for Norway’s defense capacities, and how this use of topoi was met in opinion ...

Det norske Forsvaret er det sterkeste virkemiddelet norske styresmakter har, i følge Forsvarets egen nettside. Med en forståelse av at språk er makt, og at virkeligheten skapes og forandres gjennom språket, setter denne ...

Defining Desktop Films: From Spatial Interfaces to Algorithmic Cameras focuses upon the desktop film as its object of study; an audiovisual work which uses the graphical user interface of the computer as its visual basis. ...

Today Instagram is one of the biggest social media platforms with more than 2 billion active users. Since its launch as a photo-sharing app, a decade ago, Instagram has become an extensive and advanced platform for ...

The Covid-19 pandemic brought with it serious questions concerning the communication strategies, that tended to differ between countries, as well as how they opted to share or show their uncertainty of the virus. Norway, ...

Abstract Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, otherwise known as DEIB, have become widespread terms across the globe. This thesis analyzes the use of screen technology in spreading knowledge in regard to the ...

This thesis explores the second screen phenomenon. The practice of using a second screen when watching television has increased in the digital era of modern society. It can take the form of intended usage, by interacting ...

Debatten i den offentlige sfære er viktig for å diskutere og løse samfunnsutfordringer i et demokrati. Denne masteroppgaven undersøker debattdynamikker under nyhetsoppslag om klimaendringer, ofte omtalt som en av de største ...

Ti-årsmarkeringen for terrorangrepene 22. juli 2011 satte søkelys på den felles norske forståelsen av angrepene og de ideologiske kreftene som stod bak. Sentralt i den offentlige debatten stod spørsmålet om hvor i det ...

This thesis seeks to examine a concept of far-right environmentalism called ecofascism. The term is most notably used to describe Nazi Germany’s environmental politics in the nineteenth century. In recent years, however, ...

Et godt utbygd hjelpetilbud til overgrepsutsatte regnes i dag som et åpenbart samfunnsansvar. De ulike tiltakene som finnes, utgjør til sammen et komplekst tjenestelandskap. Denne artikkelen handler om spesialiserte ...

Most research on digital skills concerns typically-developing young people. This project asks whether digital skills, as conceptualised by the wider ySKILLS project, improve or undermine the wellbeing of adolescents with ...

Denne mastergradsoppgaven har som formål å undersøke forretningsmodellene bak noen av de mest lyttede podkastene i Norge, og hvordan disse er formet av ulike tekniske, politiske og historiske rammer. Oppgaven er delt inn ...

Denne masteroppgaven undersøker i hvilken grad podkastmediet har bidratt til å fornye nyhetssjangeren. På samme tid analyserer oppgaven hva som kjennetegner de mest populære podkastene i Norge. Gjennom en breddeanalyse av ...

Communication professionals are increasingly found within government ministries. Based on classic work on bureaucracy and recent literature on mediatization and personalization, this article develops two ideal types: the ...

In contemporary society, the boundary between life and death seems to become thinner and thinner as social networking sites allow for a posthumous presence. People can therefore continue to like, comment, and react on the ...

I desember 2020 kritiserte Instagram-kontoen @rasisme.i.norge strømmeplattformen Dplay for å vise TV-serien «Nissene over skog og hei» som de mente inneholdt blackface. Dagen etter avpubliserte Discovery eierene av Dplay ...

Video games seem to currently find themselves in a weird place between critical communicators of meaning or of entertainment. Sometimes they can be both, in a communication which seems to be rhetorical in a sense. This ...

This thesis guides readers to consider how black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) individuals are both narratively and stylistically formally represented in season one of the 2020 Netflix series Bridgerton. Bridgerton ...

This thesis looks closer at how the Nordic public service companies are working together through the Nordvision collaboration in a time of an increasingly competitive media landscape. The study's findings are measured up ...

I denne oppgaven undersøkes hvordan norske Google-brukere opplever å bli eksponert for klimarelaterte temaer gjennom algoritmene i Googles søkemotor. Google er vår tids største søkemotor, og har derfor mye makt når det ...

This work analyses the presence and management As personalized digital networks have increased in cultural and political relevance, there is a more urgent need to understand their role in democratic memory-formation. ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg hvordan gjenbruksappen Tise benytter seg av virkemidler fra sosiale medier, og hvordan dette påvirker brukeropplevelsen. Ved hjelp av en kvalitativ analyse av appen har oppgaven identifisert en ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Sammendrag Denne oppgaven handler om kjendisaktivisme på vegne av klimaet, og medienes dekning av kjendisaktivismen. Oppgaven har undersøkt NRK, VG og Aftenpostens dekning av FNs klimatoppmøte i New York i forbindelse med ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hvordan forholder man seg til sin egen mediebruk i en tid hvor alle oppfordres til å jobbe, være sosiale, underholde seg selv, trene og omtrent leve gjennom digitale plattformer? Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg hvordan ...

This report presents findings from the latest EU Kids Online survey conducted in 19 countries between 2017 and 2019 (Smahel et al., 2020). 14,598 adolescents aged 12 to 17 answered questions related to online sexual ...

The Nordic countries have been termed a supermodel for political and economic governance. This anthology explores how and why the political communication systems contribute to explaining and understanding why the Nordic ...

Mediedekningen av stortingsvalgkampen i 2017 er i denne artikkelen analysert ved hjelp av spesialiserte og strategiske søk i Retriever-basen. Analysen gir et første, helhetlig bilde av hvordan ulike nyhetsmedier dekket ...

I denne oppgaven undersøkes myndigheters retoriske håndtering av en pandemisk krise. Analyseobjektene er Norge, Sverige og Danmark sine første pressekonferanser der samfunnsgjennomgripende tiltak ble annonsert i forbindelse ...

The overall conclusion that can be drawn from the contributions in this anthology is that it is hardly relevant to talk about a clear-cut Nordic model of political communication that highly contrasts other democratic states ...

Teen television series Euphoria and Sex Education have been praised for their portrayals of teen characters. The teen characters depiction of struggling with discovering their identities, sexualities, and gender makes for ...

This master’s thesis is a complex mixed methods case study on how virtual reality can generate an experience of epileptic seizures. With a focus on two epileptic seizure types (GTCS and Absence), this thesis introduces two ...

This article explores streaming across the cultural industries, drawing on 39 interviews with CEO/top-level industry executives working in the Norwegian music, film, television, and book industries. We examine two broad ...

Over hele den vestlige verden har det de siste tiårene skjedd en vekst i antallet politisk ansatte i departementene (departementspolitikere), noe som ofte ses på som uttrykk for politisering og et ønske om økt kontroll ...

I denne oppgaven gjør jeg en komparativ tekstanalyse av meierisamvirket Tine og havredrikkprodusenten Oatly sin kommunikasjon på sosiale medier. Formålet er å undersøke hvordan de to kommersielle aktørene fremstiller kumelk, ...

Denne studien undersøker hvordan meme som genre anvendes på det anonyme nettforumet 4chan. Spesifikt forsøker den å svare på hvordan Pepe the frog-remixer på 4chan-brettet «Politically incorrect» kan betraktes som et uttrykk ...

Using context collapse as my point of departure, I take an exploratory approach to the “munch” hashtag on Instagram in this thesis. Because of the homonymy between the artist Edvard Munch’s last name and the English verb ...

Som et overordnet tematisk forskningsprosjekt ser denne masteroppgaven etter å studere hvordan epoken «det tidlige 1980-tallet» kommuniseres i første episode av første sesong av serien Stranger Things, ut ifra et medieestetisk ...

En kvantitativ og kvalitativ analyse av norske papiravisers fremstilling av Instagram fra 2012-2020

Coronaviruset ble først oppdaget i Norge den 26. februar 2020. Det førte til at mediedekningen her i landet startet for fult. Nyhetsmediene har en viktig rolle for å spre informasjon ut i samfunnet, og benytter ulike kilder ...

We investigate the often-stated, but disputed claim in the political science and political communication literature that increasing media choice widens inequalities in political knowledge. The assumption is that in a ...

Depression is a common illness worldwide with potentially severe implications. Early identification of depressive symptoms is a crucial first step towards assessment, intervention, and relapse prevention. With an increase ...

Det er relativt nytt at offentlige virksomheter bruker sosiale medier i sin krisekommunikasjon. Bruk av influencere er et enda nyere verktøy som offentlige aktører (som for eksempel Helsedirektoratet) tok i bruk under ...

The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has unprecedentedly affected the Norwegian museum sector due to the disruptions and restrictions of public mobility marked by the lockdowns since March 2020. Due to the mobility restrictions, ...