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Welfare technology and the implementation process in home care Challenges, pitfalls and success factors in implementation of KOMP pro and other welfare technology solutions
(Master thesis, 2021)Welfare technology is technology with the purpose of giving people the opportunity to better manage their health and improve their lives though innovation and implementation of new technologies. The goal is to make the ... -
What a Story! Interpretative Rhetoric in News Media’s Facebook Updates
(Journalism Practice;Volume 13, 2019 - Issue 8: Journalism research in practice: Scholarly inquiry for journalists, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-19) -
What Are the Determinants of Abnormal Returns to Bidders? An Event Study of Norwegian Bidders Listed on Oslo Stock Exchange
(Master thesis, 2019)We examine the abnormal returns of 158 mergers and acquisitions announced between 2001 and 2018, in which the bidder was a Norwegian firm listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. We use an estimation window of [-147,-22] ... -
What are the reported contributing factors preventing Spatial Assimilation of Non-Western Immigrants in the Rental and Homeownership sector is Oslo, Norway? - a scoping review
(Master thesis, 2020)This paper will discuss the reported factors hindering spatial assimilation into the rental and homeownership sector for Non-Western immigrants in the city of Oslo. The existing data concluded that the following are the ... -
What are they doing? And where? Tracking the Traffic as one of the instruments in an evidence-based redesign of a university library
(Liber quarterly: the journal of European research libraries;Volume 29 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-29)During the last decade we have seen an increased focus on the future use of academic libraries, both in terms of their legitimacy and the use of the physical library space itself. Prior to a planned, major rebuilding ... -
What Causes Stock Market Volatility in Pakistan? Evidence from the Field
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)We examined the presence of volatility at the Karachi Stock Exchange (recently changed the name to Pakistan Stock Exchange) (KSE) by fitting Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (EGARCH) ... -
What determines leverage in Pakistan? A panel data analysis
(African Journal of Business Management;6(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Most of the chemical sector firms in Pakistan have foreign ownership or collaboration with foreign companies. It may be hypothesized that the leverage behavior of such firms is likely to be in line with the results of ... -
What do we talk about when we talk about the academisation of journalism?
(Journalistica;Nr. 1 (2019), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Well over a hundred years after the first journalism programmes were established at university level, the so-called academisation of journalism education is still subject to dispute. However, academisation is not one thing ... -
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 ...