Publications
The members of the Media, ICT and Cultural Policy Research Group aims for a high dissemination frequency. Although most of our production is in Norwegian, we also enjoy international reach, with monographs as well as edited anthologies, papers and articles. We here present some of the recent international publications by our researchers. We also present the the newest dissertations by the members of the group.
RECENT DISSERTATIONS
Brita Ytre-Arne: Women’s magazines and their readers. Experiences, identity and everyday life
Ytre-Arne's thesis explores women's magazine reading as a media experience, and ask how regular readers of women's magazines experience these publications, and how these experiences can be related to readers’ everyday lives and to their sense of identity. A central ambition of the thesis is to suggest and demonstrate analytical approaches that are new to research on women's magazines. Throughout the thesis, women's magazine reading is conceptualized as a multifaceted media experience that encompasses perceptual, aesthetic, technological, cognitive, emotional, social and cultural dimensions. More here
Helle Sjøvaag: Journalistic Ideology. Professional Strategy, Institutional Authority and Boundary Maintenance in the Digital News Market
Sjøvaag's dissertation examines how journalistic ideology is mobilised when the profession is met by exogenous forces that challenge journalistic authority, primarily by looking at how the Norwegian commercial public service broadcaster TV 2 engages journalistic ideology as part of its news market strategies. Fundamental to journalistic ideology and its mobilisation in these encounters is the concept of a social contract operating as the driving force behind professional strategies. These issues are further contextualised within Anthony Giddens' concept of the duality of structure to illustrate the recursive nature of journalistic ideology for the maintenance of professional boundaries. More here
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Media Globalization and the Discovery Channel NetworksSmall images:
Post doctoral fellow Ole Johan Mjøs has recently published a book regarding the relationship between media and globalization. The book presents a unique study of the DIscovery Channel - one of the world's leading producer of documentary programming for television and other media.
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Music, Social Media and Global MobilitySmall images:
Associate Professor Ole J. Mjøs’ new book is now out on Routledge. Music, Social Media and Global Mobility investigates the relationship between media, communications and globalisation through a unique study of electronic music practitioners’ use of global social media such as Facebook, Youtube, MySpace and Twitter.
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Media, Markets & Public SpheresSmall images:
Media, Markets & Public Spheres presents an overview of changes in the European public spheres over the last fifty years as well as in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting, changing relations between media, changes in media policies and media history as record of cultural change.
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The Digital Public Sphere: Challenges for Media PolicySmall images:
Editors Jostein Gripsrud and Hallvard Moe have recently published a new book with Nordicom. The book The Digital Public Sphere: Challenges for Media Policy, builds on the Digicult project and explores how media policy is changing in a digital public sphere.
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Relocating TelevisionSmall images:
Jostein Gripsrud is editor of Relocating Television: Television in the Digital Context. Relocating Television offers readers an insight into studying television alongside the internet, participatory media and other technocultural phenomena such as DVDs, user-generated content and everyday digital media production. The book is the result of Gripsrud's Digicult project.