Master theses / Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi: Recent submissions
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LEARNING AND COLLABORATION VIA DIGITAL COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN ECOVILLAGES A Study on Learning in Ecovillage Communities of Practice and Affordances of Virtual Immersive Learning Environments
(2024-03-19)Ecovillages are intentional residential communities aimed at improving human quality of life while protecting and regenerating the surrounding nature in order to create a more sustainable lifestyle based on cooperative ... -
Linking for Peace. An affordance perspective of LinkedIn as an instrument for peace professionals to advance constructive conflict resolution and transformative efforts
(2023-11-22)Has LinkedIn become the platform for a global community of practice for peace professionals? Does it have the potential to be? An inductive approach to Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) following Braun and Clarke’s six-phase ... -
Creating the world's most sustainable and attractive travel destination. A content analysis of sustainable place brand identities in Southern Sweden
(2023-11-22)This study examines how the place brand identities of seven Destination Management Organisations (DMOs) in southern Sweden guide their sustainable tourism communication. With the importance of sustainability becoming clear, ... -
Topics and Attitudes in COVID-19 Online News Comments about Italy and Sweden. Appraisal Framework applied to Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis
(2023-11-22)This study conducts a mixed-methods, comparative study of online news comments. The subject of the articles were the two countries of Sweden and Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Articles about Italy and Sweden during ... -
Communication Professionals as the Office Factotum: A Study of Emotional Labour and Well-Being in the Communication Profession
(2023-11-22)This thesis investigated the concept of emotional labour for communication professionals in an internal communication context. Recently, the well-being of communication professionals has caught public attention in Sweden ... -
Communications Effect on Trust in The Hybrid Workplace. An explorative case study of an outsourcing company providing financial services
(2023-11-22)The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the way people work, with many organizations shifting to remote work as the result. As we move towards a post-pandemic world, the hybrid working method that combines remote and in-office ... -
FACEBOOK IS NOW META. Meta's corporate sociotechnical imaginary and the discursive construction of the Metaverse as the social platform of the future
(2023-11-22)The interpretive discourse-analytic framework of the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse is used to analyze how Meta's senior executives discursively frame the use of augmented reality and virtual reality in order ... -
INTERNAL COMMUNICATION AND COWORKERSHIP, IMPLICATIONS FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION. A qualitative case study at Volvo Trucks, exploring coworkership through self-determination theory
(2023-11-22)Employee engagement is essential for companies' success, competitiveness and for handling large scale organisational changes. Specifying the barriers and drivers for employee engagement is therefore necessary to handle ... -
Encouraging Reading on Social Media. Exploring Finnish Bookstagram Community
(2023-11-21)In the contemporary digital age, where text-based communication is increasingly significant, literacy skills play a crucial role in effective social participation. However, despite the importance of literacy, a considerable ... -
THE DEMOCRATIC CHAIN. Blockchain in the Context of Swedish Electoral Pro-cesses: Applying a Need-Solution Pairing approach with a lens of Legitimacy.
(2023-11-20)Blockchain has been studied extensively in the literature regarding its plausible application on a series of fields. In the same line, the application of Blockchain for public electoral processes has begun to be a matter ... -
EXPLORING ACCEPTANCE AND ADOPTION OF PRICING ROBOTS THROUGH THE AUTOMATION ACCEPTANCE MODEL. A case study within an e-commerce company
(2023-11-20)Recent technological advancements have enabled the development of more automated and adaptable technological environments. User acceptance and adoption of technology is a critical issue in the rapidly evolving technological ... -
Digital transformation in the healthcare sector: Drivers for adoption of digital healthcare technologies
(2023-11-20)The study explores factors that drive the adoption of digital healthcare technologies. In venturing into this emerging domain of research the study attempts to answer the following research question: What drives the adoption ... -
DIRECT-TO-COMSUMER MODEL IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY The impact of transition to a direct-to consumer business model by an incumbent manufacturer on its retailers: a case study of Volvo Cars
(2023-02-01)Digitalisation has enabled and shown the opportunity to car manufacturers. They are transforming themselves and a by-product of change is the transformation of their business model. Digital technologies have enabled ... -
NAVIGATING WORKPLACE CONFLICT A case study of local and foreign employees at an international company in Tanzania
(2023-02-01)In the era of global trade and professional ties across borders, understanding how individuals from diverse contexts frame and respond to workplace conflict is critically important. Researchers have found various variables ... -
GREEN CITY ZONE A Case-Study in a Multi-Stakeholder Initiative within a Smart City
(2023-02-01)As climate change concerns have taken a central spot in mainstream discourse, there has been an emergence of green smart city projects, resulting in an increased demand for research in these areas. As the EU has pledged a ... -
A FUTURE WITHOUT THIRD-PARTY COOKIES A study of how Swedish small and medium-sized marketing agencies are affected by the loss of third-party cookies and how potential change strategies are communicated.
(2023-02-01)For years, digital communicators have taken advantage of the phenomena of third-party cookies to help understand online user behavior in order to produce personalized advertising. The increased discussion of user integrity ... -
NEWCOMER ADJUSTMENT AND SENSEMAKING IN REMOTE WORK ENVIRONMENTS Perspectives on remote onboarding in Higher Educational Institutions
(2023-02-01)The transition to remote and hybrid work environments due to the advancements in computer mediated communication and the COVID-19 pandemic, introduced challenges in the process of onboarding new hires. This research ... -
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Sustainability Reports of Volvo Cars
(2023-02-01)Companies communicate the impact of their corporate activities through sustainability reports, disclosing their environmental engagement. Critical studies on sustainability reporting have highlighted that environmental ... -
ASSESSING PUBLIC OPINION ON ALGORITHMIC FAIRNESS Reviewing practical challenges and the role of contextual factors
(2023-02-01)AI ethicists often claim that where algorithmic decision-making is impacting human lives, it is crucial to strive for transparency and explainability. As one form of achieving these, some authors have argued for ... -
AI Integration Scaling AI for business model innovation
(2022-10-28)Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still largely unexplored within information systems research, and most published work remains non-academic (Collins et al., 2021). While there exists some research related to the challenges ...