Teaching plan

For full literature references, please see reading list

Updated 28 January 09.

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
19.01.2009Tanja Storsul  1015-12 Room 207  Introductory course for students without MEVIT2800 (or similar)  For this course, students may choose between the three books - see message about this.

Powerpoint presentation (this presentation will be given the 20th) 

20.01.2009Tanja Storsul  1015-12 Room 207  Introductory course for students without MEVIT2800 (or similar)  Powerpoint presentation (this presentation will be given the 21st) 
21.01.2009Tanja Storsul  1015-12 Room 207  Introductory course for students without MEVIT2800 (or similar)  Powerpoint presentation (this presentation will be given the 26th - same time and place).

Exercises 

28.01.2009Tore Slaatta  1215-14 Aud 3 Eilert Sundts House (NB new room)  Epistemology  Literature:

Bruhn Jensen, Klaus (2002). “The state of convergence in media and communication research” Ch 1 in Klaus Bruhn Jensen (ed).

Bruhn Jensen, Klaus (2002). “The complementarity of qualitative and quantitative methodologies in media and communication research” Ch 15 in Klaus Bruhn Jensen (ed).

Murdoch, Graham (2002) “Media, Culture and Modern Times” Ch 3 in Klaus Bruhn Jensen (ed).  

11.02.2009Tanja Storsul  1215-14 Room 205  Comparative Analysis  Literature:

Lijphart, Arend (1971). Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method.

Frendreis, John P. (1983) Explanation of Variation and Detection of Covariation: The Purpose and Logic of Comparative Analysis.

Collier, David (1993). The Comparative Approach.

Powerpoint presentation 

25.02.2009Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud  1215-14 Room 205  Case Study Research  Literature:

Yin, Robert K. (2008): Case study research Ch 1 – 3

Flyvbjerg, Bent (2006): Five misunderstandings about case-study research 

04.03.2009Synne Skjulstad  1215-14 Room 205  Textual Analysis  Literature:

Bruhn Jensen, Klaus (2002). “The humanities in media and communication research” Ch 2 in Klaus Bruhn Jensen (ed).

Schrøder, Kim Christian (2002). “Discourses of fact” Ch 7 in Klaus Bruhn Jensen (ed).

Larsen, Peter (2002) “Mediated fiction” Ch 8 in Klaus Bruhn Jensen (ed). 

18.03.2009Sigurd Allern  1215-14 Room 205  Content Analysis  Literature:

Neuendorf, Kimberly A (2002). Content Analysis Guidebook, Sage. Chapters 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. 

25.03.2008Tanja Storsul  1215-14 Room 205  Causal Analysis  Literature:

Hellevik, Ottar (1988) Introduction to Causal Analysis. Chapters 1-4.

Bruhn Jensen, Klaus (2002) “Media effects. Quantitative traditions” Ch 9 in Klaus Bruhn Jensen (ed).

Powerpoint presentation 

01.04.2009Faltin Karlsen  1215-14 Room 205  Qualitative Interviews  Literature:

Kvale, Steinar and Svend Brinkmann (2009). Interviews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing. Ch 6 – 11.

Thomas, Robert J (1990) “Interviewing Important People in Big Companies”. 

15.04.2009Faltin Karlsen  1215-14 Room 205  Ethnography  Literature:

Taylor, T.L. (1999): Life in Virtual Worlds: Plural Existence, Multimodalities, and Other Online Research Challenges.

Markham, Annette N. (2004). The Methods, Politics, and Ethics of representation in Online Ethnography.

Silverman, David (2006) Ch 3 “Ethnography and observation” in Interpreting Qualitative Data. 

22.04.2009Faltin Karlsen  1215-14 Room 205  Grounded Theory  Literature:

Glaser, Barney G. & Strauss, Anselm (1967). The Discovery of Grounded Theory. Ch 1 and 2.

Lars Mjøset (2005). Can grounded theory solve the problems of its critics? Sosiologisk tidsskrift. 

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