Dag Slettemeås

About

Dag Slettemeås is associated with the Technology and Sustainability research group at SIFO. He has broad research experience on topics such as digitization, digital media, digital competence and digital everyday life. Slettemeås is concerned with vulnerable consumer groups such as children and young people, the elderly, immigrants and those with disabilities. Thematically, the research is oriented towards digital competence in the population and especially among the young and the elderly, digital marketing, online shopping and online fraud, ratings and user reviews, digital platforms and social media, personal and consumer data, surveillance economy, platform economy, reputation economy, intimacy economy, sharing economy, technology innovation, the Internet of Things, smart home and smart consumer technologies, algorithms and artificial intelligence, mobile phones and apps - and more generally how technology development, consumers and society mutually influence each other.

Slettemeås holds a Master of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University (Bologna, Italy - Washington D.C., USA) in International Economics and International Affairs with a specialization in Energy, Environment, Science & Technology. He has a Cand.mag. in social sciences from the University of Oslo (sociology, political science, economics). Slettemeås has previously worked at the World Bank as a consultant in the Energy and Telecom department. Slettemeås is also working on a PhD at the Department of Media and Communication (IMK), University of Oslo.

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Social sciences