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Open Data Phenomenon Trend Literature

Open Data Phenomenon Trend Literature

On Tuesday it is just one month until the master thesis is to be handed in, hence the next weeks will be spent in front of the keyboard writing down findings from literature and interviews, editing the text, making connections and hopefully complete a text that can convey something interesting about what I perceive as an interesting trend in society. At the current stage the chapter headings are written in section and subsection markup, but these are not written in…

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Listomania

Listomania

“Think less but see it grow like a riot, like a riot, oh I’m not easily offended It’s not hard to let it go from a mess to the masses” The article’s title being a slightly modified song title by Phoenix, and containing the chorus from the same song, this is not a tribute to the popular French band but rather an explanation on something I have seen as being a growing phenomena in mine, and others, Internet habits: the…

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Information society

Information society

As the hypervisuality from the 90’s went over in the overflow of information of the 00’s something happend. The traditionaly trend that things changes more often and that things last shorter went into warpdrive. In the 60’s and 70’s the television-planning was buildt into big groups of programs. The variety was limited and so was also the offers of different television channels. In the eighties something happend, the national regulations, controlling the broadcasting sector, were loosened up and more and…

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism

Then I was finnished with one of my first exams here back in Norway after my Erasmus-semester abroad. The exam was in the course “Media and popular culture”. An interesting course, with many different thoughts from different scientists. From the culturalism, to the Freudian psycoanalysts to structuralism and Postmodernism. The good thing about this course is that the exam-method gives the opportunity to develop some ideas and get to know the litterature on the subject which you have to write…

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