Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier
Recent Submissions
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Do Low-Openness, Low-Transparency Procedures in Academic Hiring Disadvantage Women?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Research has shown that low openness and low transparency in the process of recruitment of new (associate) professors put women at a systematic disadvantage. Examples include professorships awarded by direct invitation (as ... -
The Constitutive Practices of Public Smartphone Use
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The smartphone has become the most ubiquitous piece of personal technology, giving it significant social importance and sociological relevance. In this article, we explore how the smartphone interacts with and impacts ... -
A little bird told me your gender: Gender inferences in social media
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Online and social media platforms employ automated recognition methods to presume user preferences, sensitive attributes such as race, gender, sexual orientation, and opinions. These opaque methods can predict behaviors ... -
Diverging pathways to port sustainability: How social processes shape and direct transition work
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)To counter climate change, societies are under pressure to transform energy and transport sectors. Considering the crucial node position of ports in the intersection between energy and transport systems and their connecting ... -
Changing oil: self-driving vehicles and the Norwegian state
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Expectations regarding the imminent arrival of self-driving vehicles has prompted nations to embed such vehicles in policy and explore their potential through pilot projects. The article analyses interviews and document ... -
Gaining socially sustainable cities through sharing indoor spaces for voluntary activities: The case of Trondheim, Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The influence of indoor shared spaces in neighbourhoods on voluntary activities is barely investigated in literature. Conversely, the impact of space on social activities is widely recognized in literature and an impact ... -
Actors in energy transitions. Transformative potentials at the intersection between Norwegian port and transport systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Although actors are of central importance in the progress of energy transitions, their roles and contributions have received limited attention by transition scholars. This article aims to fill this gap by taking a ́role-centrić ... -
Responsible Research and Innovation in the Global South: Agriculture, Renewable Energy and the Pursuit of Symmetry
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From Food Regulation to Environmental Challenge: The Construction, Practice and Consequences of Date Labelling in Norway
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:409, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Summary Whenever we do our shopping for groceries or when we go through our food storage, we are confronted with the expiration date. This date enables us to shop, and later eat, without making decisions within a wide ... -
Mitigating isolation and loneliness with technology through emotional care by social robots in remote
(Chapter, 2020)This book chapter explores how experiences of isolation and loneliness in remote areas can be mitigated through social robots’ emotional care. We first discuss the concept of being social and how that notion is changing ... -
Emerging circular economies: Discourse coalitions in a Norwegian case
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The transition to a circular economy (CE) remains an anticipated future with alternative pathways for its fulfillment. Most research on CE is normative about technological approaches and interpretations for production and ... -
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 ... -
Sociotechnical Agendas: Reviewing Future Directions for Energy and Climate Research
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are ... -
Strategic Research Agenda of the EERA Joint Programme Hydropower
(Research report, 2019)The launch of a new EERA Joint Programme on Hydropower is good news for energy system in Europe and beyond. The clean energy transition is necessary, demanding and accelerating. Hydropower in Europe and worldwide represents ... -
Making researchers responsible: attributions of responsibility and ambiguous notions of culture in research codes of conduct
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Research codes of conduct offer guidance to researchers with respect to which values should be realized in research practices, how these values are to be realized, and what the respective responsibilities of ... -
Consensus or contestation: reflections on governance of innovation in a context of heterogeneous knowledges
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Governance of innovation needs to cater in a democratic way for heterogeneity of knowledges. Many initiatives in the democratisation of innovation aspire to some sort of consensus among relevant actors. However, consensus ... -
The imagined scientist of science governance
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In this article, we introduce the concept of ‘the imagined scientist’. It inverts previous discussions of the public as an imagined community with a knowledge deficit, to examine imagined scientists representing an actor ... -
"Mas, mas, mas - over hele linja"
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Assessing the Potential of Digital Collaborative Sharing Platforms in Fostering Neighbourhood Participation Through Volunteerism
(Chapter, 2019)This paper seeks to discuss whether and how digital collaborative sharing platforms can foster citizen engagement in urban neighbourhoods by addressing various challenges experienced by local initiatives. To that aim, we ... -
Opplæring av Grønn IT-ambassadører. En håndbok
(Research report, 2016)