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What is it about humanity that we can't give away to intelligent machines? A European perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)One of the most significant recent technological developments concerns the development and implementation of ‘intelligent machines’ that draw on recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. However, there ... -
What is visual-numeric literacy, and how does it work?
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What Would Preacher Do? Tactics of Blasphemy in the Strategies of Satire and Parody
(Chapter, 2023)Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s sixty-six-issue graphic novel series Preacher is blasphemous. Scream it from the rooftops, post it behind a sputtering red Cessna on an aerial advertising banner, and be sure to mention it ... -
What's wrong with the adequacy-argument? A pragmatic diagnosis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)When confronted with the question of which philosophical conception of religion to consider most adequate, many philosophers appeal to what I call the adequacy-argument: that we should prefer the one that looks most adequate ... -
When dad becomes a woman : A Critical Discourse Studies approach to gender performativity in American and Norwegian reality TV and documentary film
(Master thesis, 2018)In this master's thesis I have wanted to say something about male-to-female transgender identity construction and the way in which it takes place in ordinary life. I have investigated how two different families negotiate ... -
When Reader Becomes Player: A study of future narratives, agency, the ludonarrative framework, and morals within the ludic experience.
(Master thesis, 2022)Video games have broken their niche appeal, becoming a mainstream medium on par with literature and cinema. The popularity of the medium is not the only thing which has evolved, but also the capacity for video games to ... -
When the Wind is the Answer. The Use of Bob Dylan Songs in Worship Services in Protestant Churches
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“When You Live Here, That’s What You Get” : Other-, Ex-, and Non-Religious Outsiders in the Norwegian Bible Belt
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The why, what and how of deep learning : critical analysis and additional concerns
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The concept of deep learning has become a popular and well recognised term in contemporary educational literature and inter-national political documents. Deep learning typically induces posi-tive connotations and represents ... -
Wicked Formidling : Senderorienterte formidlingsutfordringer i forebygging av radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme - Hvilke formidlingsutfordringer står organisasjoner som Plattform ovenfor?
(Master thesis, 2017)Formålet med denne oppgaven er å gi svar på hvilke formidlingsutfordringer organisasjoner som Plattform står ovenfor. Plattform er en av flere aktører i arbeidet med å forebygge radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme på ... -
Word Neighbor Priming in Bilingual Sentence Reading: Evidence from Eye Movements
(Master thesis, 2018)This study investigates English sentence reading processes in Norwegian-English bilinguals. It aims to explore the effects of word form overlap and its connection to second-language (L2) English proficiency. We recorded ... -
Words In the World: Vocabulary learning in and out of class.
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis examines how young people in Norway acquire English vocabulary in the classroom and extramurally. This study aims to discover proof that pupils learn vocabulary through extramural activities like films, television ... -
The World of George Grosz’s Pictures and the World Depicted in The Novel Pokora by Szczepan Twardoch
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)“My drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment […] I drew soldiers without noses; war cripples with crustacean-like steel arms” – so stated George Grosz in a refl ection on his art. This quotation expresses ... -
Worlds Ablaze : The insidious traumata of the future anterior in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006)
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis examines the novels Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and The Road (2006), two future-set dystopian narratives that extrapolate on their contemporary and ongoing traumas. This paper explores the novels through the lens of ... -
Worlds and Readers: Augmented Reality in Modern Polaxis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article presents a close reading of the augmented reality (AR) comic Modern Polaxis, which was created by Stuart Campbell. Possible Worlds Theory was applied to discuss how fiction, which creates its own possible ... -
Wow! They really like celeriac! Kindergarten teachers' experiences of an intervention to increase 1-year-olds' acceptance of vegetables
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Abstract Exposure to varied foods in early life is important for short- and long-term health and development. Strategically introducing toddlers to new vegetables is not a common practice in Norwegian kindergartens. ... -
Writing in German as a foreign language in Norwegian upper secondary school: An investigation of patterns of language choices for meaning-making
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The main objective of this article is to identify and describe characteristic patterns of language choices in texts written by Norwegian upper secondary school students of German as a foreign language (GFL) (age 16/17, ... -
Written Corrective Feedback and the Development of L2 Learner Language : A longitudinal study of lower secondary EFL writing in Norway
(Master thesis, 2020)Aiming to explore teacher written corrective feedback and learner errors qualitatively and longitudinally, the present study investigates two teachers’ WCF to errors in the written production of three lower secondary EFL ... -
“You Know, It’s Like Everywhere. Nothing’s Doing what it’s Supposed to Anymore” : A Corpus-based Study on Sociolinguistic Distribution of the Discourse Markers Like and You Know
(Master thesis, 2019)Discourse markers are sometimes socially stigmatized by people, and researchers conducting corpus-based studies report contradictory results about sociolinguistic distribution of such items. This study focuses on the two ...