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What do energy modellers know? An ethnography of epistemic values and knowledge models
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article considers academic energy modelling as a scientific practice. While models and modelling have been of considerable interest in energy social science research, few studies have brought together approaches from ... -
What do experts talk about when they talk about users? Expectations and imagined users in the smart grid
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This is a study of the visions and expectations which have been put forward by experts about smart grids. Within the sociology of expectation, such visions are given performative significance, and as such these expectations ... -
What do Older Adults Want from Social Robots? A Qualitative Research Approach to Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Studies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study investigates what older adults want from social robots. Older adults are often presented with social robots designed based on developers’ assumptions that only vaguely address their actual needs. By lacking an ... -
What does it take to see sexual assault
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)I denne oppgaven skal jeg gjør jeg rede for hvilke elememter som må være tilstede i et menneske for at de kan se på seksuel vold på skjermen og ikke oppfatte det som sexuell vold. Den vil videre analysere hvilke elementer ... -
What drives investment in wind energy? A comparative study of China and the European Union
(Journal article, 2016)Although the expansion of new renewable energy has been dependent on support in state policies, the research literature has scant focus on the political motivations for implementing policies to stimulate such development. ... -
What English VP Ellipsis Can Do, What Norwegian VP Ellipsis Can't, and Why - A Comparative Study of VP Ellipsis in English and Norwegian
(Master thesis, 2018)This quantitative study compares the anaphoric phenomenon Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE) in English and Norwegian. The main aim of the thesis is to investigate and compare licensing conditions on VPE in these two languages. ... -
What explains the missing girls in 19th-century Spain?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Infant and childhood sex ratios in nineteenth‐century Spain were abnormally high, thus pointing to some sort of unexplained excess female mortality. This article analyses internal regional variation and shows that certain ... -
What happened to "ass"? A study of the fansubbing of Norwegian slang into English in the TV-show Skam and its effects on characterization
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis examines how the Norwegian TV-show Skam has been translated from Norwegian to English by fan-translators, focusing on the translation of slang, and how this has affected the characterization, i.e. how the ... -
What influences language impairment in bilingual aphasia? A meta-analytic review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Patterns of language impairment in multilingual speakers with post-stroke aphasia are diverse: in some cases the language deficits are parallel, that is, all languages are impaired relatively equally, whereas in other cases ... -
What kinds of losses have occurred in the subtitle translation of the movie "The King`s Speech", and what are the likely effect on the target audience?
(Bachelor thesis, 2020)Analysen viser tap av banneord, ikke-standard språkbruk, høflighet, humor og meningsskapende konnotasjoner. Disse typene tap har blitt utviklet på grunn av begrensninger som følge av audiovisuell oversettelse, som eksempelvis ... -
What makes a film adaptation successul? A case study of The Great Gatsby
(Master thesis, 2022)Denne master oppgaven tar The Great Gatsby som en case study for å finne ut om Baz Luhrmanns 2013 adaptasjon var en vellykket adaptasjon. Siden adaptasjoner alltid har vært populært, kommer spørsmålet om hvor vellykkede ... -
What Peter didn't know. Reflections on spatial size
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The person of the initial thought experiment knows all non-indexical physical facts about things of the external world but not their real size. This highlights a tension between two rather uncontroversial views about spatial ... -
What procedures were employed in the translation of names in Winnie-the-Pooh into Norwegian?
(Bachelor thesis, 2019)This thesis focuses on the translation of names in Winnie-the-Pooh from English to Norwegian. The first book about Winnie-the-Pooh was originally written by Alan Alexander Milne and was published in 1926. It was translated ... -
What Self in Self-Organisation? Engaging Varela’s Epistemology for the Co-Embodied Self
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)bodily and joint co-embodied processes so that the self is already and constitutively social. I focus on an early article by Francisco Varela, “Not one, not two”, to argue that his non- dualistic epistemology entails a ... -
What social dilemmas do we encounter by using algorithms?
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)Denne oppgaven diskuterer hvilke sosiale dilemmaer vi møter ved å bruke sosiale medier, nærmere bestemt teknologien bak plattformene, bruken av algoritmer og hovedsakelig hvordan disse fremstilles og diskuteres av ... -
What was the response of the European Union to the financial debt crisis of 2008, and what economic measures were adopted in order to fight back the crisis? A case of Greece and Ireland.
(Master thesis, 2020)Den finansielle gjeldskrisen i 2008 hadde en enorm påvirkning ikke bare på den europeiske økonomien, men også i verdensomspennende skala. Økonomisk krise begynte i 2007 med krasjet og krisen i subprime-boliglånsmarkedet i ... -
What We Disagree about When We Disagree about Sustainability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Criteria for sustainability are frequently contested and changed based on competing or new types of knowledge. This is a potential problem for policy and decision makers struggling to come up with policies regarding ... -
What We Owe Unwelcome Residents: The obligations of liberal democracies towards irregular immigrants
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What's in a word? On the use of metaphors to describe the careers of women academics
(Journal article, 2018)Various metaphors are used in the literature and media to refer to the careers and experiences of women academics. In the wake of the fascinating debate in the literature surrounding the adequacy of these expressions, ... -
What's in a word?: Studies in phonosemantics
(Doctoral thesis, 2001)The notion that there is a regular correlation between the form of aword and its meaning is, of course, controversial. In this dissertation my intention has been to shed light on that controversy by conducting a variety ...