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Communities of Peer Practitioners: Experiences from an Academic Writing Group
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Learning academic writing is important for communicating research and participating in scholarly debates. This learning is traditionally conceptualized through a hierarchical teacher-student relation or individual ... -
Competitive, secure, low-carbon energy supply – a social sciences and humanities annotated bibliography
(Research report, 2017)The challenge: European Union (EU) energy policies have three main aims: competitiveness, secure supply and sustainability. EU countries have agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% compared ... -
Compressed growth – The transforming power of the round bale technology
(Journal article, 2021)Silage bailer technology preserving harvested grass and turning it into silage by a baling machine attached to a tractor is common in most rural regions in Norway. In this paper, we argue that not only have silage bales ... -
Concern and confidence. Architects making sense of climate adaption
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Drawing on the analytical concept of ‘sensemaking’ as defined by Weick [1995, Sensemaking in Organizations (Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA)], and on scholarship concerning discourses on architect identity and the regulatory context ... -
Concern, creativity and compliance - The phenomenon of digital game-based learning in Norwegian education
(Doctoral thesis at NTNU;2016:197, Doctoral thesis, 2016)Summary of the thesis: The thesis is an empirical study of the use of digital games in Norwegian schools, from a science and technology (STS) point of view. The topic is examined at three different arenas: news media, ... -
Concerned consumption. Global warming changing household domestication of energy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This paper addresses possible effects of the growing focus on global warming on households’ domestication of energy and the dynamics of energy consumption by comparing data pertaining to the domestication of energy within ... -
Conditions for just offshore wind energy: Addressing the societal challenges of the North Sea wind industry
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Configuring Dementia: How Nursing Students are Taught to Mediate the Socio-political Role of Gerontechnologies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper contributes to the discussion on the materiality of age and ageing in this special issue by presenting a case that illustrates how nursing students are trained to shape gerontechnologies in ways that have ... -
Conflicted transitions: Exploring the actors, tactics, and outcomes of social opposition against energy infrastructure
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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 ... -
Conserving Wolves by Transforming Them? The Transformative Effects of Technologies of Government in Biodiversity Conservation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article investigates the construction of instruments and techniques employed in the management of Norwegian wolves since the early 1980s by construing the tools as technologies of government. The proliferation of such ... -
Conserving Wolves by Transforming Them? The Transformative Effects of Technologies of Government in Biodiversity Conservation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article investigates the construction of instruments and techniques employed in the management of Norwegian wolves since the early 1980s by construing the tools as technologies of government. The proliferation of such ... -
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 ... -
Constructing Online Disinformation and Misinformation in Norway: The discourse of causes, imaginaries of futures and interpretations of solutions
(Master thesis, 2021)Problemet med desinformasjon og feilinformasjon på nett har fått oppmerksomhet i norske medier og samfunnsdebatten som følge av hendelser i utlandet. In denne oppgaven analyserer jeg norske aktørers konstruksjon av ... -
Constructing the Norwegian smart grids: To fix what is not broken?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)The first step towards the so called smart grid is currently in undertaking by most industrial countries, represented as the development and implementation of the smart meter. The smart meter will digitalize our relationship ... -
Consumer, client or citizen? How Norwegian local governments domesticate website technology and configure their users
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Local governments' websites are important gateways for residents wishing to interact with public institutions online, and the establishment and development of such websites stand out among governmental initiatives to improve ... -
Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The widely discussed transition to a circular economy (CE) combines a large number of approaches that imply varying degrees of change and affect institutions and actor groups. Despite this variety, the basic premise of CE ... -
Contemporary Fairy Tales: Narrating Women Academics Through Metaphors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article contributes to the feminist literature that explores the vast landscape of metaphors on the professional experiences and identities of women academics found in scholarly works. In their now classic studies on ... -
The contents and shaping of transition work: Lessons learned from Norwegian ports
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2022:330, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Sammendrag For å motvirke stadig mer synlige effekter av klimaendring tvinges vi til å revurdere måtene samfunnet er organisert på. Et fremtidig lavutslippssamfunn fordrer at beslutningstakere ikke bare fokuserer på ...