Department of Media and Communication
University of Oslo
KL 5 May 2006
The lectures are on Thursdays 14.15–16.00
(in week 35 on Tuesday 14.15–16.00 as well)
MMS=Mass Media and Society 4 th ed. (Curran & Gurevitch, eds.), with ref. to chapter author
MGS=Media in a Globalized Society (Hjarvard, ed), with ref. to chapter author
(Literature in brackets is from the additional reading list for the MA students)
Wk 34:
24 Aug
Introduction, overview
Knut Lundby: Dimensions in the course description. Introduction to the field.
Literature: Held & McGrew; Hesmondhalgh Introduction; MGS Introduction;
MGS Hjarvard
Wk 35: Guest lectures 1-2,
Liesbet van Zoonen (University of Amsterdam and IMK)
31 Aug (Thurs) Big Brother as a glocal format
Literature: Hesmondhalgh Ch. 8; MMS Hesmondhalgh; MMS Aldoory
& Parry-Giles; MGS Bruun; (van Zoonen)
31 Aug (Thurs) The supposed Americanization of politics
Literature: Held & McGrew Ch. 2; Hesmondhalgh Ch. 4; MMS
Entman; MMS Thussu; MMS Dahlgren & Gurevitch; MGS Biltereyst
Wk 36:
7 Sept
Comparative perspective 1
Sarah Chiumbu: Africa vs. Europe – in a political economy perspective
Literature: Hesmondhalgh Part 1 & Ch. 5; Thomas & Nain Part 1 & 2; MMS
Murdock & Golding; MMS Miller & Slater; (Binsbergen & van Dijk)
Wk 37:
14 Sept
Comparative perspective 2
Knut Lundby: Africa vs. Europe – in a cultural studies perspective
Literature: Hesmondhalgh Part 1; MMS Murdock & Golding; MMS Hallin &
Mancini; MMS Miller & Slater; (Bondebjerg & Golding; Savage et al.
;
Lundby).
Wk 38:
Wk 39:
28 Sept
Wk 40:
5 Oct
No lecture
Theoretical approach 1
Knut Lundby: Structuration theory
Literature: MMS Chadha & Kavoori; MMS Curran; MMS Hallin & Mancini
Guest lecture 3
Dag Asbjørnsen (Filmfondet):
Film from South vs. Hollywood as cultural industry
Literature: Hesmondhalgh Ch. 6

Wk 41:
12 Oct
Wk 42:
19 Oct
Wk 46:
Wk 47:
23 Nov
Wk 48:
30 Nov
Wk 43:
26 Oct
Wk 44:
2 Nov
Wk 45:
9 Nov
Theoretical approach 2
Knut Lundby: Network society theory
Literature: Hesmondhalgh Ch. 7; MMS Livingstone; MGS Hjarvard; MGS
Jensen
Theoretical approach 3
Sarah Chiumbu: Information society theory
Literature: MMS Garnham; (Servaes & Carpentier; Webster; Hamelink; van
Dijk; Castells)
Case
Knut Lundby: The cartoon conflict
Literature: MMS Sakr; MGS Søndergaard
Guest lecture 4
Tore Slaatta (IMK): European public space and the media
Literature: MMS Hallin & Mancini; (Collins)
Theoretical approach 4
Knut Lundby: Theory on time/space disjuncture
Literature: MGS Hjarvard; MGS Frandsen; MGS Robins
No lecture
Theoretical approach 5
Sarah Chiumbu: Theory on global flows of communication
Literature: Thomas & Nain Part 3; MMS Le et al.
; MGS Wildermuth
Summing up
Knut Lundby