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Increasing use of web surveys and different devices for survey completion calls for examination of device effects on survey response quality. Whereas most previous studies are based on web panels, subgroups (e.g. students) or short questionnaires designed for device experiments, compelling participants to respond through specific devices, this study is based on two large nationally representative cross sectional samples (ISSP 2018 and ISSP 2019) where completion device was optional. Seven indicators of response quality are applied, allowing a comparison among survey participants answering the questionnaire by smartphone, tablet and by PC. Results are in line with previous findings, and do not give support to any assumptions of device effects in the quality of responses. Respondents’ self-evaluated engagement in survey completion do not differ across devices, and only small and non-systematic differences between devices on satisficing indicators such as the tendency to agree regardless of question content (acquiescence), non-substantive answers, selection of mid-point response options and primacy effects, and straightlining are identified. Controlling the associations between response device and the response quality indicators for self-selection biases did not change the overall result.

I de senere år har udbredelsen af „nye“ kommunikationsteknologier forandret måden, hvorpå illegale rusmidler handles og distribueres. Handel med illegale rusmidler foregår i stigende grad på online kryptomarkeder, sociale medier eller ved hjælp af mobiltelefoner. Berry (2018) har derfor konkluderet, at stofmarkeder bedst kan forstås som sociotekniske netværk, da de i stigende grad formes i samspillet mellem sociale og teknologiske processer. På den baggrund belyser artiklen, hvilken rolle brugen af mobiltelefoner spiller i udformningen af stofhandel baseret på et de-ringer-vi-bringer-koncept. I artiklen argumenteres der for, at et fokus på de forskellige måder, stofsælgeres salgstelefon bliver „enacted“ (Law 1999) på, kan fungere som en prisme, hvorigennem vi kan få indblik i de forskellige og delvis overlappende sociotekniske netværk (Mol 2002), som i dag giver form til det mobiltelefonbaserede budservicemarked for illegale rusmidler i Danmark. Artiklen er baseret på interviews med aktive stofsælgere og -købere. Den viser, hvordan salgstelefonen artikuleres på fem forskellige måder: som et redskab til intern koordinering af budserviceforretningen, som et kommercielt passagepunkt for stofkunder, som et svagt led, som politiet forsøger at udnytte til at opspore salgs/købsnetværk, og som en vare og et middel til fjendtlig markedsovertagelse, som når kriminelle enten sælger telefonbaserede kundeporteføljer eller forsøger at erobre markedsandele ved at stjæle deres konkurrenters salgstelefoner. Søgeord: stofmarked, mobiltelefon, narkotikahandel, narkotikasælgere, aktørnetværk, Danmark

This master’s thesis concerns news stories being sent as push notifications to mobile phones.The project is based around an audience-centric study of how users of push notification news perceive the service they receive.To accomplish this, the project uses a mixed methods research strategy through the use of Q-methodology, which combines quantitative and qualitative research. By making interviewees sort different statements regarding news push notifications and then inter-viewing them afterwards, the project contains quantitative data with elaboration from the interviews.Through factor analysis the project presents three different groups of news users divided by their perception of the service. One group is very fond of the service, one group is ra-ther critical of it, and a third group is mostly just interested in entertainment and sports.By using the theory of Social Acceleration by Hartmut Rosa and Ambient News by Ian Hargreaves, the project strives to explain and discuss why the different groups presented perceive the service in different ways.

Hvad gør mobiltelefoner egentligt ved vores måde at snakke sammen på og interagere med hinanden på? Og hvilken kultur skaber vi, når vi bruger vores mobiltelefoner? Den amerikanske medieforsker Richard Ling har i 20 år søgt at vise, at mobiltelefoner og den nye ”storebror”, smartphonen, på en gang både er blevet en naturlig del af vores måde at interagere med hinanden på, men samtidig også skubber til eller forandrer vores sociale interaktion, og de ritualer, som er med til at skabe ro og sammenhæng i hverdagen.

For nogle år siden var jeg gæsteunderviser på det Informationsvidenskabelige Akademi. Jeg skulle undervise i vidensmedier, og til en af forelæsningerne om sandhed havde jeg sat de studerende til at læse et uddrag af Umberto Ecos ”Foucaults Pendul”. En del af konteksten var også, at der på det tidspunkt var blevet bragt en artikelserie i dagspressen omkring ”generation dum”.

The mobile phone can now be used as a payment instrument to purchase goods and services. Several factors have supported this use of mobile phones. Firstly, the mobile phone has a market penetration close to 100 per cent. Secondly, technological developments have enabled new payment services to mobile phones and expanded the range of goods and services that can be purchased by means of a mobile phone. Thirdly, payments made by mobile phones - known as mobile payments - are in many contexts a more simple and faster way of making payments than other payment methods. The volume of mobile payments is still relatively limited in Denmark. However, pilot projects have shown that consumers are willing to use their mobile phones for payments. Yet, Denmark is still lagging behind several countries when it comes to mobile payments. This applies especially to the so-called proximity payments where the mobile phone is used instead of cash and/or payment cards for point of sales transactions.

This thesis is focused on young people’s attitudes towards and use of the cell phone in the late modern network society. By means of a qualitative target group study of 8 young people between 15 and 17 years, we analyse the attitudes towards the cell phone partly as tool in their daily lives – partly as a media platform. On the basis of this analysis we discuss the possibilities and limitations connected to strategic communication aimed at young people as a target group. Our conclusion is that to young people the value of the cell phone lies in its possibilities of increased flexibility, entertainment and easy maintenance of existing social relations. Furthermore it works as a symbol of identity through which the young person can gain status and position in the surrounding world. Thus the cell phone helps reflecting the personality of the individual both as to aesthetic signaling value and as to individual character. As a result of the research we find a number of factors which in different ways influence and motivate young people to focus attention on a specific content: the degree of convenience, relevance, uniqueness, interactivity, respect for privacy and the possibility of strengthening social relations in the internal networks of young people. These factors are crucial if an initiative of communication aimed at young people as a target group is to succeed.