From the following books and the course reader, the set curriculum will consist of approx. 1800 pages. (To be chosen by the students. Books marked with * are compulsory reading)
Selected International newspapers will be used as illustration in class.
Brian McNair*: The Sociology of Journalism (190 p)
Ian Hargreaves*: Journalism. Truth or Dare (290 p)
Herbert Gans: Democracy and the News (182 p)
James Curran and Myung-Jin Park: De-westernizing Media Studies (340 p)
James Curran and Jean Seaton: Power without Responsbility (480 p)
Stuart Allen*: News Culture (240 p)
Victor Navasky, Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allen: Journalism after September 11. (288 p)
John Street*: Mass Media, Politics and Democracy (320 p)
David Randall: Universal journalist (225p)
Course Reader*:
Orgeret, Kristin Skare: Paper presented at Norsk Medieforskerlags Konferanse, Trondheim 2004: ”Celebrating the new South African nation through the global and the local” (21p.)
Orgeret, Kristin Skare Paper presented at The Political Economy of Media Seminar, Centre for Cultural and Media Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2004: ”The SABC national evening news in English and textual strategies 1994-2004” (19p.) Ottosen, Rune & Nohrstedt, Stig A. (eds.):U.S. and the Others, Nordicom 2004, Gøteborg; Introduction: Media and the war on terror. p. 7-23 (16p.)
Schudson, Michael The sociology of news, W.W. Norton and Company, 2003, New York: Chapter 7 (News Sources p.134-153) and Chapter 8 (The Political Culture of News p.154-166) ( 33p.)
Gross, Peter: Entangled Evolutions. Media and democratization in Eastern Europe. Chapter 4 (The Media as an Institution p.90-123) and chapter 6 (Conclution: The Media, Journalism, and Democratization p.158-174). (49p.)
Eide, Elisabeth, ”Down there” and ”up here”. ”Europe’s others” in Norwegian feature stories, University of Oslo 2002; Chapter 1:Reflections on Orientalism and Othering, p. 9-61 (52p.)
Total: 190 p. +notes