• Arbetarkollektivet i dag – ny studie och teoretisk utveckling 

      Axelsson, Jonas; Karlsson, Jan Christer; Skorstad, Egil Jostein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-28)
      Sverre Lysgaards teori om arbetarkollektivet är fortfarande en inflytelserik klassiker inom skandinavisk arbetslivsforskning. Lysgaards studie genomfördes i en massa- och pappersfabrik på 1950-talet och Jonas Axelsson, Jan ...
    • Avenir et climat : représentations de l’avenir dans des blogs francophones portant sur le changement climatique 

      Fløttum, Kjersti; Gjerstad, Øyvind; Gjesdal, Anje Müller (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Cet article explore la manière dont l’avenir est perçu dans des blogs portant sur les changements climatiques, extraits du corpus NTAP (Networks of Text and People). L’analyse, principalement entreprise dans une perspective ...
    • Does emigration reduce corruption? 

      Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha Maria Berta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      We study the effects of emigration on bribery experience and attitudes towards corruption in the migrants’ countries of origin. Using data from the Gallup Balkan Monitor survey and instrumental variable analysis, we find ...
    • Freedom under the gaze of Big Brother: Preparing the grounds for a liberal defence of privacy in the era of Big Data 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-08)
      ‘Big Brother is watching you!’ the posters in Orwell's Oceania told all its inhabitants. We have no such posters, but we live in the era of Big Data, and someone is watching us. Here, I discuss how Big Data is an omniscient ...
    • Gjestar som blir? : Arbeidsinnvandring som utfordring for kommunar på Vestlandet 

      Båtevik, Finn Ove; Gjerstad, Brita; Grimsrud, Gro Marit; Johannessen, Øystein Lund; Netteland, Grete; Nødland, Svein Ingve; Prøitz, Lin; Skeie, Geir; Vedøy, Gunn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i ei undersøking om arbeidsinnvandring til dei fire vestlandsfylka og om dette leier til behov for å utvikle eigne lokale politikkar for velferdstenester. Materialet er statistikk for regionen, ...
    • Læring av feilslåtte innovasjoner 

      Sørensen, Charlotte; Aastvedt, Ailin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-06)
      I denne artikkelen ser vi nærmere på, hva vi kan lære av feilslåtte innovasjoner ved å belyse en case. Ved å løfte fram feilslåtte innovasjoner vil vi utfordre den vanlige forståelsen av innovasjon som noe entydig positivt. ...
    • The Parasitic Nature of Social AI: Sharing Minds with the Mindless 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03-17)
      Can artificial intelligence (AI) develop the potential to be our partner, and will we be as sensitive to its social signals as we are to those of human beings? I examine both of these questions and how cultural psychology ...
    • Political Communication and the Realities of Democracy 

      Borgebund, Harald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      This article argues that given the increasing polarisation, commercialisation and globalisation of the media, political communication is facing significant challenges in supporting and improving democratic practice in ...
    • Privacy as an aggregate public good 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09-23)
      Privacy relates to individuals and their ability to keep certain aspects of themselves away from other individuals and organisations. This leads both proponents and opponents of liberalism to argue that liberalism involves ...
    • The Pursuit of the Source, or The Inevitability of Death 

      Persson, Mats; Karlsson, Jan Ch. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The purpose of this article is to apply the method of the genre of studying chains of references to an instance of a secondary source of the contested concept of ‘resistance to change’ back to the primary source and thereby ...
    • Social Housing Policy in a Segmented Housing Market: Indirect Effects on Markets and Individuals 

      Borgersen, Trond Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-20)
      This paper analyses indirect effects of social housing policy (SHP) in a segmented housing market. A two segment-housing ladder, where equity determines up trading, shows how SHP-measures targeting either housing supply ...
    • The case of the football club Rosenborg in the Norwegian region Trøndelag: Insights from a regional – global organizational model emphasizing how improvisation can lead to outstanding results using insights from “total football” and “flow theory” 

      Syvertsen, Carsten Martin; Steiro, Trygve J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11)
      The Norwegian football club Rosenborg is used as the empirical setting in the article. Improvisation and good routines are the foundations for success in the soccer field is a finding in this piece of research. We link ...
    • The end of emancipation? CTS and normativity 

      Lindahl, Sondre (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-23)
      Although CTS can be described as a broad church, scholars working within this approach want to produce knowledge which can help shape, improve, change, or replace contemporary counterterrorism. Guided by Marx’s mantra that ...
    • The Ghost in the Machine: Being Human in the Age of AI and Machine Learning 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-19)
      Human beings have used technology to improve their efficiency throughout history. We continue to do so today, but we are no longer only using technology to perform physical tasks. Today, we make computers that are smart ...
    • The tyranny of perceived opinion: Freedom and information in the era of big data 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-08)
      Never before have we had access to as much information as we do today, but how do we avail ourselves of it? In parallel with the increase in the amount of information, we have created means of curating and delivering it ...
    • Ti år etter kvinners stemmerett i Kuwait: Quo Vadis? 

      Maktabi, Rania (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      16. mai 2015 var det ti år siden kvinner i Kuwait fikk stemmerett. Hvordan har de brukt sine politiske rettigheter som borgere i et av klodens rikeste og mest verdikonservative hjørner?
    • Travelling Narratives and Images in Times of Migration : Introduction 

      Åsebø, Sigrun; Gjesdal, Anje Müller; Skalle, Camilla Erichsen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Migrant narratives and aesthetic practices influenced by experiences of exile and migration constitute a growing field in contemporary art and literature. Current trends in migration and globalisation have led to an increase ...
    • When nudge comes to shove: Liberty and nudging in the era of big data 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-26)
      In this article, I examine how nudging powered by Big Data relates to both negative and positive liberty. I focus in particular on how liberty is affected by appeals to irrational mechanisms. I conclude that it is problematic ...