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What do you pay for all you can eat? Pricing practices and strategies in streaming media services
(Journal of Media Business Studies;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07-06)The role that prices play for streaming media services is yet to be comprehensively and comparatively analysed with an international outlook. In this paper, we present results on music and video streaming prices, based on ... -
What does digital journalism studies look like?
(Digital Journalism;Volume 7, 2019 - Issue 3: Defining Digital Journalism (Studies), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-08)This article analyses the characteristics of digital journalism studies through an empirical investigation of all articles published in the journal Digital Journalism, from its launch in 2013 to issue 6, 2018. The aim of ... -
What factors can explain gender role attitudes toward division of work between parents - Comparative analysis of 24 European countries
(Master thesis, 2017)This master thesis aims to examine factors that can explain gender role attitudes toward division of paid and unpaid work in couples with preschool children in 24 European countries. These countries differ from each other ... -
What is Digital Journalism Studies?
(Book; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-22)What is Digital Journalism Studies? delves into the technologies, platforms, and audience relations that constitute digital journalism studies' central objects of study, outlining its principal theories, the research methods ... -
What is in a recommendation? The case of the bX Article Recommender
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis explores the bX Article Recommender, a recommender system for research papers, developed by Ex Libris. It views the system as embedded in a historical and social context, and studies it from both a technical ... -
What Is Known About the Impact of Impairments on Information Seeking and Searching?
(Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-23)Information seeking and access are essential for users in all walks of life, from addressing personal needs such as finding flights to locating information needed to complete work tasks. Over the past decade or so, the ... -
What is Media Innovation?
(Chapter, 2013)In order to understand and explain current developments in the media landscape, using the lens of innovation and innovation theory adds value to media research. This chapter gives a theoretical introduction to the concept ... -
What is Nordic Media Business Research? An analysis of major research outlets
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Media business research has been growing rapidly in the Nordic region. In a highly internationalised field of research, is there a line of enquiry that is distinctively Nordic? Based on an analysis of papers and articles ... -
What is press freedom? A study on journalims students' perception of press freedom
(Journalism Education;Volume 10, Issue 1, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-10)Press freedom applies to journalists working in conditions where press freedom is denied or threatened, as well as to journalists who feel the pressure of downsizing of news staff and polarized opinions. Using quantitative ... -
What is Respectful Maternity Care? An Ethnography Study of Mothers and Midwives in Fort Portal, Uganda
(Master thesis, 2018)Globally, the maternal mortality rate is high at 216 deaths per 100,000 live births. Within Sub-Saharan Africa the rate remains much higher at 546 deaths per 100,000 births. Uganda makes up two percent of the global maternal ... -
What is the matter with newsroom culture? A sociomaterial analysis of professional knowledge creation in the newsroom
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-07-08)This article presents a study of what affects professional knowledge creation when journalism students have their periods of internship in legacy, yet highly digitized newsrooms. A total of 16 Norwegian j-students are ... -
What issues do female activist groups in Ghana consider significant in their struggle for female empowerment? Which social and cultural factors can enhance or inhibit change towards female empowerment on these issues?
(Master thesis, 2012)Problemstillingen for min masteroppgave er todelt. Den første delen utforsker hvilke sentrale problemer som har utløst kampen for myndiggjøring av kvinner i Ghana. Den andre delen har som mål å finne ut hvilke sammensatte ... -
What makes employees stay? Mastery climate, psychological need satisfaction and on-the-job embeddedness
(Nordic Psychology;Volume 73, 2021 - Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-16)Job embeddedness was developed as a new perspective to explain employee retention, and recent research has demonstrated its predictive power of voluntary turnover. However, little is known about factors that might influence ... -
What makes leaders humble? A quantitative analysis of their personality traits and implicit motives
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis explores what makes a leader humble. Building on theory on personality traits, implicit motives and moral leadership we conducted a quantitative, cross-sectional study to examine various factors that contribute ... -
What professionals say and do: the tension between egalitarianism and hierarchy in interprofessional teamwork
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study aimed to explore the power dynamics in interprofessional teamwork by conducting an ethnographic study of three interprofessional teams working in mental health and substance use services in Norway. Data were ... -
“What researchers now can tell us” : Representing scientific uncertainty in journalism
(OBS - Observatorio;3, (4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)Little research has been done on how journalism deals with and constructs scientific uncertainty. This paper applies Critical Discourse Analysis to explore how scientific uncertainty (and certainty) is constructed in news ... -
What were considered to be good books in the time of popular enlightenment? The view of philanthropists compared to the view of a farmer
(Peer reviewed; Chapter, 2013)The enlightenment movement in Denmark - Norway had a practical/rational orientation, but was also religiously motivated. Towards the end of the 18th Century a new genre of book was established: enlightenment books, ... -
What's stopping them? : towards a grounded theory of online journalism
(Journalism Studies;10 (6), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-12)Findings in recent research suggest that online journalism is much less innovative than many researchers and scholars predicted a decade ago. Research into online journalism has, however, been biased towards a focus on ... -
When Aping a Politician as an Ape: Making Sense of Political Caricatures on the Boundaries of Journalism
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)Political caricature is a subset of satire that visually exposes and ridicules the foolish behavior of persons engaged in power struggles in society. Political caricatures have a strong capacity to provoke and offend. ... -
When Divergence Appears Coherent: An Investigation of How Ambiguous Policy Rationales Shape the Activation Trajectories of Hard-toemploy Clients
(Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2017)