Browsing AURA by Author "Laterza, Vito"
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Academic freedom and knowledge-based decisions amid a crisis Insights from Norway during the Covid-19 lockdown
Wallebek, Cecilie Dons (Master thesis, 2022)When the world was hit by the pandemic Covid-19, The Norwegian government opted for a national lockdown in March 2020. Press conferences were held, and central authorities spoke to the country with a focus on togetherness ... -
Biopolitics from the Global South: a new generation takes on customary nationalism in eSwatini
Golomski, Casey; Laterza, Vito (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023) -
Confronting NGOs: A critical discourse analysis of Norwegian NGOs understanding of women´s poverty in the global south.
Søgård, Kay Arne (Master thesis, 2022)Norwegian NGOs are organizations that are highly visible in the media in Norway regarding development and aid. With such a prominent place in the media and enormous visibility, these organizations influence the population ... -
Could Cambridge Analytica Have Delivered Donald Trump’s 2016 Presidential Victory? An Anthropologist’s Look at Big Data and Political Campaigning
Laterza, Vito (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)I first provide some context about Cambridge Analytica’s (ca) activities, linking them to ca parent company, scl Group, which specialised in “public relations” campaigns around the world across multiple sectors (from ... -
Customary nationalism in crisis: protest, identity and politics in eSwatini
Laterza, Vito; Golomski, Casey (Journal article, 2023)The Kingdom of eSwatini is undergoing its worst political and humanitarian crisis in postcolonial times. In June-July 2021, the indiscriminate killing and torturing of pro-democracy protesters by the military and the police ... -
Digital transformations with “Nordic characteristics”? Latest trends in the digitalisation of teaching and learning in Nordic higher education
Laterza, Vito; Tømte, Cathrine Edelhard; Pinheiro, Romulo Teixeira (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020) -
Digital transformations with “Nordic characteristics”? Latest trends in the digitalisation of teaching and learning in Nordic higher education
Laterza, Vito; Tømte, Cathrine Edelhard; Pinheiro, Romulo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020) -
Enabling a just energy transition through solidarity in research
Sareen, Siddharth; Girard, Bérénice; Lindkvist, Peter Mathias; Sveinsdóttir, Anna Guðbjört; Kristiansen, Silje; Laterza, Vito; Støen, Mariel Cristina; Langhelle, Oluf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)A just energy transition is as much about acknowledging and acting on the socio-material needs of marginalised classes and groups as about informing inclusive and deliberative policy-making towards more equitable energy ... -
Enabling a just energy transition through solidarity in research
Sareen, Siddharth; Girard, Berenice Rachel Esther; Lindkvist, Peter Mathias; Sveinsdóttir, Anna Guðbjört; Kristiansen, Silje Theresa Torstensson; Laterza, Vito; Støen, Mariel Aguilar; Langhelle, Oluf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)A just energy transition is as much about acknowledging and acting on the socio-material needs of marginalised classes and groups as about informing inclusive and deliberative policy-making towards more equitable energy ... -
Enabling a just energy transition through solidarity in research
Sareen, Siddharth; Girard, Berenice Rachel Esther; Lindkvist, Peter Mathias; Sveinsdóttir, Anna Guðbjört; Kristiansen, Silje; Laterza, Vito; Aguilar-Støen, Mariel; Langhelle, Oluf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)A just energy transition is as much about acknowledging and acting on the socio-material needs of marginalised classes and groups as about informing inclusive and deliberative policy-making towards more equitable energy ... -
Human-technology relations in an age of surveillance capitalism. Towards an anthropological theory of the dialectic between analogue and digital humanity
Laterza, Vito (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)What can anthropology contribute to the current debates about the negative effects of social media on people? Starting from a critique of anthropological work that sees human subjectivity and culture as ontologically ... -
Impact of the COVID-19 on Labour Market Integration of Immigrant Women from East Africa, in Kristiansand area, Norway.
Dirar, Zerisenai Berhane (Master thesis, 2023)Across the World, in recent years, there has been a significant rise in the number of individuals forced to leave their home countries and seek refuge in other nations due to factors such as persecution, conflict, human ... -
Impact of the Norwegian Language on Job Opportunities for Immigrants from South Asia in Kristiansand, Norway
Parvin, Lea (Master thesis, 2023)Migration is one of the most common global phenomena. With one of the best welfare systems in Europe and a reputation for being one of the most diligent countries, Norway has seen many immigrants, both professionals and ... -
Implementing Digital Transformations in Higher Education Following COVID-19: A Norwegian Case Study
Laterza, Vito; Asante, Michael Oduro; Tømte, Cathrine Edelhard; Pinheiro, Romulo Teixeira (Chapter, 2023)Drawing on the theory and conceptualizations of organizational readiness for change and taking a more critical approach to organizational readiness that takes seriously actors’ different and sometimes conflicting understandings ... -
Integration of Household Communities in Solid Waste Management Systems: A Case of Suburban Households of Lagos state, Nigeria.
Nwankwo, Francis Adindu (Master thesis, 2022)Humans are said to be the only aspect of the ecosystem that emits trash and harms the ability of the environment to survive. The growing human and economic activities, which frequently generate waste, appear to have a ... -
Is there a Scandinavian model for MOOCs? Understanding the MOOC phenomenon in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
Tømte, Cathrine Edelhard; Laterza, Vito; Pinheiro, Romulo Teixeira; Avramovic, Aleksandar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020) -
(Re)creating “society in silico” : surveillance capitalism, simulations and subjectivity in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal
Laterza, Vito (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article provides a different angle to understand the Cambridge Analytica (CA) data scandal. It focuses on the role of models and simulations in the big data campaigning tools CA allegedly used, and their epistemological ... -
The Rise of EdTech Platforms in Higher Education: Mapping Themes from Emerging Critical Literature
de Andrade, Luiz Henrique Alonso; Thomas, Duncan A; Laterza, Vito (Chapter, 2023)There is growing criticism of Big Tech platforms across different sectors of society. There is also increasing scepticism towards seemingly wholesale digitalisation of higher education (HE), largely enabled by platform ... -
Settler Colonialism, Environmental Justice and the Media: A Thematic Analysis of the National, Regional, Local, and Indigenous Newspaper Coverage of the Keystone XL Pipeline in the United States
Larsen, Cecilie (Master thesis, 2022)Purpose - The purpose of this thesis is to explore what thematic frames national, regional, local, and Indigenous newspapers have used when reporting on the Keystone XL pipeline in the United States. Specifically, by ... -
Towards Sustainable Dietary Change: An Exploration of Norwegian University Student's Attitudes toward Meat Reduction
Tallaksen, Amalie (Master thesis, 2022)The current food system is associated with various environmental implications. The meat the industry has been recognized as a substantial contributor to these environmental implications and places enormous strain on ...