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Student essays from Applied Information Technology, IT University of Gothenburg.
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TOWARDS RESPONSIBLE GENAI USE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A Collaborative Governance Perspective From Sweden
(2025-11-20)Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming higher education by enabling new forms of academic assistance and content generation. While much attention has been given to institutional efforts to protect academic integrity, it ... -
Can machines write opinion pieces like humans? A corpus-based analysis of modal verbs and personal pronouns in author-written and GPT4 generated op-eds
(2025-11-18)The rapid development of AI-generated text, in common usage and model performance, raises concerns about how convincingly it can mimic human writing, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish AI text. This study ... -
Exploring the possibilities of LLMs in environmental regulatory compliance - A grounded theory study of LLM use in the HyPELignum project
(2025-09-22)EU’s shift from behavior-based to impact-based environmental regulation has placed more responsibility on organizations to interpret EU environmental law. This paper explores how LLMs, specifically Microsoft CoPilot, can ... -
No Pain, No Gain? Exploring the use of gain-loss framing in political climate debates in Germany and Sweden
(2025-08-25)As the urgency of climate change increases, competing narratives about the potential gains and losses of climate action play a central role in shaping political discourses and policies. This thesis explores the extent and ... -
“There are many uncertainties, but not knowing everything is not the same as knowing nothing”: A corpus-assisted discourse study of climate change uncertainty in online newsreader comments
(2025-08-21)The scientific consensus is clear on the causes and consequences of anthropogenic climate change (ACC). Nonetheless, climate science involves some degree of uncertainty. Existing literature shows that such uncertainties ... -
FACING LEGAL UNCERTAINTY IN INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT: The role of the project team in achieving compliance
(2025-06-25)With the growing use of personal data, laws and regulations aim to ensure privacy to the user, especially within information systems (IS). These regulations can be difficult to put into practice by developers and so ... -
TRANSLATION OF DIGITAL STRATEGY: ANALYZING SCOPE AND SCALE FROM EU GOVERNANCE TO RAIL OPERATORS IN GERMANY AND SWEDEN
(2025-06-24)The need for digitalization is constantly growing in society, yet many industries are overlooked in this area. The purpose of this study is to investigate how digital strategies in the railway sector are transferred within ... -
THE TIMING OF DIGITAL NUDGES Exploring the Impact of Digital Nudge Timing on Password Strength
(2025-06-24)In the digital age, passwords remain a primary method of authentication, yet many users create weak passwords, posing serious cybersecurity risks. Digital nudging, rooted in theory on choice architecture, has shown potential ... -
MAINTAINING LEGITIMACY IN A DIGITAL AGE A Case Study of Offside Press AB
(2025-06-24)This paper investigates how journalistic organizations maintain legitimacy in a digitalization era using Offside Press AB and its three publications: Offside, Filter, and Skriva as the case study and explores how legitimacy ... -
GENERATIVE AI AS A COGNITIVE COLLABORATOR Enhancing Boundary Objects and Stakeholder Participation in Collaborative Prototyping
(2025-06-24)The landscape of innovation has shifted towards open collaboration, meanwhile Artificial intelligence (AI) has had rapid surge in development. AI, more specifically, generative AI (GAI) has the potential to alter many ... -
IMPEDIMENTS TO TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN AN INCUMBENT COMPANY Case Study of a Software-Driven Incumbent Company in the Automotive Industry
(2025-06-24)This thesis investigates challenges to technological change in an incumbent company within the automotive industry, addressing the growing importance of managing technological change in a hypercompetitive environment. The ... -
Scaling digital tools for climate action in public sector
(2025-06-24)Purpose: This study investigates how digital solutions for climate action are scaled within and across Swedish municipalities. It explores the enabling and impeding factors that influence the scaling process. Theory: Three ... -
TEMPORAL DYNAMICS BETWEEN SUPRANATIONAL BIODIVERSITY POLICY AND CORPORATE DISCLOSURE Assessing the Semantic Relationship between Earnings Calls Conferences and the Work of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
(2025-06-24)This thesis investigates the influence of the work of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) on corporate biodiversity disclosure. It provides a scalable method for assessing disclosure trends and ... -
AI IN RECRUITMENT A Study on Readiness and Responsibility in the Face of Regulation
(2025-06-24)This study examines how artificial intelligence (AI) is used in recruitment in Sweden, with a particular emphasis on regulatory compliance, technical complexity, responsibility and understanding. Based on 10 semi-structured ... -
“Barriers that can Drive Someone Crazy” Self-Disclosure and Highly Skilled Transnational Migrants’ Abilities to Cope with Social Difficulties
(2024-10-01)With the high demand for highly skilled transnational migrants and yet little known about how they navigate social challenges, the need to examine their lived difficult social experiences and how they manage their social ... -
Clear skies, Clouded Communication. A content analyses on the effects of communication breakdowns in aviation disasters.
(2024-10-01)This thesis investigates the pivotal role of communication dynamics in the management of crises, with a particular focus on how failures in communication can lead to catastrophic outcomes. Using aviation disasters as a ... -
Social Media Marketing: Engaging Fitness Consumers on Instagram
(2024-09-27)This study explores the relationship between Social Media Marketing Activities (SMMAs) and consumer engagement on Instagram, with a focus on fitness brands. Given the increasing role of social media in brand-consumer ... -
To Humanize or Not to Humanize: Users’ Perception on Interactions with a Mental Health Conversational Agent
(2024-09-20)Given the rapid development of technology accurately simulating human behavior, the need to understand its implications particularly in mental health human-computer interactions becomes acute. Thus, this paper addresses ... -
“Protesting for climate change is more constructive than your quick useless comment” – A corpus-based analysis of incivility, impoliteness, and response-time in online newsreader comments on The Guardian climate change articles
(2024-09-20)Online newsreader comments (ONRC) constitute a vital form of user engagement and participatory communication in the virtual public sphere, enabling users to engage in discussions about important contemporary societal issues. ... -
“It shouldn’t be a knot in the stomach for anyone to come there”. A Case Study of Migrant Clients' Interactions with Social Services in Borås
(2024-09-20)According to The Swedish Psychological Defense Agency (MPF), there are challenges of mistrust among Swedish citizens arising from the disinformation campaign affecting the image of the Care of Young Persons (Special ...
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