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    • Mapping the Holodomor Monument Complex. Victimization, Demonization and Sacralization in the Memory Wars 

      Hordijk, Frank (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-15)
      Abstract In the context of the ongoing memory and history war between Ukraine, Russia and the West, and the increased politicization of history displayed in museums, this thesis seeks to identify and analyze national narratives of the Holodomor in feature films, documentaries, monuments, and museums. The historical event of the Holodomor, which is called an artificial or man-made famine, occurred ...

    • Moving Towards Automatic Classification: Experiments Using Latent Semantic Indexing and Fiction in a Public Library Context 

      MacLaren, Nora (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-09)
      As we transition from physical to digital library collections, our classification systems need to change as well. But how is this to be done? Focusing on public libraries, this thesis examines how Latent Semantic Indexing could serve as the basis of an automatic classification of fiction using full text and the vector space model. Library patrons are the ultimate judges of any new system of shelf ...

    • Norsk petroleumssektor i cyberspace. Materialitet, digitalisering og sikkerhet 

      Amundsen, Elizaveta Sergejevna (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-15)
      Den hyppige teknologiutviklingen har medført at risikobildet i samfunnet og verden for øvrig har endret seg. Norge, som et lite, men veldig digitalisert land møter de digitale utfordringene tidlig og er mer utsatt for truslene i cyberspace. For å klare å forebygge angrep fra det digitale rom, er det nødvendig å ha en god sikkerhetspolitikk, også i det digitale domenet. Sikkerhet handler om å verne ...

    • Open Access as publication method at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, UiT. A feasibility study conducted among academics at the faculty to determine usage and consensus regarding Open Access publishing practices 

      Grenersen, Sivert Martin Myrvang (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-11-04)
      This master thesis explores the landscape of scholarly publishing by presenting a study done at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education (HSL) at UiT the Arctic University of Norway to assess publication practices and attitudes with the focus being on Open Access (OA). For this study, 444 journal publications from the faculty in 2016 and 2017 were analyzed alongside a survey asking ...

    • Peer review at the University of Tromsø : a study of time spent on reviewing and researchers’ opinions on peer review 

      Refsdal, Maria (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-06)
      This thesis examines peer review at the University of Tromsø (UiT). It focuses on how much time is spent on reviewing at this particular institution, in addition to examine the researchers’ opinions on several aspects of peer review. It starts with a theoretical introduction to peer review, with a historical background, presentations of different models, problems and advantages in the review process, ...

    • Problemstillinger rundt tilgjengeliggjøring av mastergradsoppgaver og doktorgradsavhandlinger i Munin. 

      Larssen, Tanja (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-11-13)
      En undersøkelse av tidligere og nåværende studenter ved UiT sin holdning til åpen tilgjengeliggjøring av oppgaver og avhandlinger i Munin. Oppgaven gjennomgår statistikk for tidligere leverte oppgaver i Munin og benytter en spørreundersøkelser for å innhente data fra nåværende studenter. Resultatene viser at et flertall av studentene som setter begrensinger for tilgjengeliggjøring i Munin begrunner ...

    • Queer Norwegian Cinema Doesn’t Exist. An explanatory critique of Norsk filmhistorie: spillefilmen 1911-2011. 

      Hansen, Jennifer Britt Lundberg (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-06-01)
      Are there any queer Norwegian films? How would one find out about it? The main objective of this thesis is to make visible how queer gender and sexuality are represented in the most prominent work in the Norwegian film history discourse. With writing history, there is a danger of social exclusion and this thesis found that the queer community has been marginalized in the film history book "Norsk ...

    • Smarthus og materialitet. En materialistisk tilnærming til smarthus, sett i lys av media og materialitet, materie og miljø 

      Larsen, Silje Anett (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-09-05)
      Teknologi og digitale produkter tar en stadig større del av vår tilkoblede hverdag. Denne oppgaven vil med en materialistisk tilnærming til medieforskning se nærmere på smarthus, hvor hensikten er å vise til andre, ofte underkommuniserte aspekter ved medieteknologi og digitalisering sett fra et miljøperspektiv, som sjeldent adresseres av massemediene. Ved å vise til en undersøkelse som viser til ...

    • Social media as digital public sphere. Social media, digital public sphere and community 

      Nielsen, Inga Mari (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-09-17)
      The thesis investigates if social media with focus on Facebook is used as a digital public sphere. Issues concerning privacy rights online, coercive and manipulative political advertisement are discussed in contrast to the positive aspects of social media as platform for an inclusive, pluralist and community friendly discourse. Independent data from a questionnaire on habits and views on social ...

    • Splitting the world : distributed performance as document 

      Sømhovd, Astrid Johanna (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-05)
      The present thesis looks at the distributed performance format in light of an emerging document model. It focuses on the possible use of a document model with artistic documentation. It starts out with an overview of the background for this thesis, introducing the institutional connections, and a short overview of distributed performance. The there's a short sub-chapter on terminology, defining and ...

    • Tromsø biblioteks utvikling sett i lys av nasjonale og nordiske forhold. Et historisk-institusjonelt perspektiv 

      Storvik, Kirsten Fausa (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-31)
      Ved å se på situasjonen i Sverige, Danmark og Finland synliggjøres forklaringen på hvorfor norske bibliotek har sakket akterut i etterkrigstida. Dette gjøres for bedre forståelse av Tromsø biblioteks utvikling. Forklaringsfaktorene for bibliotekutviklingen på 1900-tallet kommer tydeligere fram ved å ta i bruk institusjonell teori. Gjennom ekvilibrium-modellen kommer det som er karakteristisk for ...

    • Would not bigger be better? : some reflections on aspects of the business models of Open Access publishing 

      Frantsvåg, Jan Erik (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-05-15)
      While Open Access publishing is beneficial to science, it is not beneficial to perform Open Access publishing in an inefficient way. I have here tried to study some aspects of how OA publishing works with a view to find out if it is organised efficiently. Both when it comes to uptake of advertising as a source of income, and how it is exploited; and when it comes to how the OA publishing industry ...