4.0. Conclusion

Goals of learning from this lesson

• Connect the dots from previous lessons

The lecture

The final lecture presentation in my course on Media & Politics at Lillehammer University College can be browsed through below. As this is more of a summing up, the title may be slightly misleading.




Literature

• Everything on the book list and list of articles

3.4. Cosmopolitics

Goals of learning from this lesson

• What is compassion and "compassion fatigue"?
• How may the media development in general contribute to global compassion (and cosmopolitanism)?
• Why do some disasters and other events of suffering end up on top of the mainstream news agenda, while others are pushed down?
• In what way may the internet affect the international news agenda?

The lecture

Browse through the presentation from my course in Media & Politics at Lillehammer University College.

 


The literature

• Chouliaraki, L. (2008). The Mediation of Suffering and the Vision of a Cosmopolitan Public. 21p. *
• Hoskins, A., & O’Loughlin, B. (2010). War and media. Chap. 3. 23p.

Watch relevant videos

Peter Singer: The why and how of effective altruism

Paul Conneally: Digital humanitarianism

Ethan Zuckerman: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection

Watch more videos on the YouTube playlist



Useful links

• Aale, P. K. (2014, July 15). Slik kan du bidra til en slavefri tomatbransje.
• Abrahamsen, R. (2014, May 23). Before we get carried away – politics, security and Nigeria’s missing girls.
• Brannen, K. (2014, August 15). Countries in Crisis at Record High.
• Farrell, N. (2014). From Activist to Entrepreneur: Peace One Day and the Changing Persona of the Social Campaigner. M/C Journal, 17(3).
• Gbikpi, N. (2013, September 13). Whose “Mission”? Celebrities, voice and refugees.
• Haskell, J. (2013, December 12). Steven Van Zandt on How “Sun City” Helped Break Apartheid.
• Kascak, L., & DasGupta, S. (2014, June 19). #InstagrammingAfrica: The Narcissism of Global Voluntourism.
• Mary Joyce. (2013, June 13). Video Advocacy Styles. News & Politics.
• Meier, P. (2013). iRevolution.
• Solomon, D. (n.d.). Steven Van Zandt Tells The Story Of “Sun City” And Fighting Apartheid In South Africa.
• Wolfe, L. (2014, August 1). Attention Deficit Disorder. Foreign Policy.

3.3. Ethnocentrism

Goals of learning from this lesson:

• What is ethnocentrism and stereotyping?
• How are the relation between the global and local best captured?
• Why are mainstream media's role as nation builders challenged by migration?
• When is it reasonable to refer to diaspora?

The lecture

Browse throught the latest lecture presentation from my course in Media & Politics at Lillehammer University College

 


The literature:

• Chan, J. (2005). Global media and the dialectics of the global. 5p. *
• Hodkinson, P. (2011). Media, culture and society. Chap. 10. 20p.
• Meyrowitz, J. (2005). The rise of glocality: New senses of place and identity in the global village. 10p. *

Watch relevant videos

Edward Said On Orientalism

Nollywood: The third biggest film industry, but no cinemas

Jack Shaheen: Reel Bad Arabs (Documentary)

 
Watch more from this YouTube playlist




Useful links:

• Alford, M. (2009). A propaganda model for Hollywood. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 6(2), 144–156.
• Barth, M. (2013, May 8). Det store norske helteeposet. Rushprint.
• Berger, J. M. (2012, November 21). Mongol Hordes Take Manhattan. Foreign Policy.
• Biskind, P. (2008). The Vietnam Oscars. Vanity Fair, (March).
• Boot, M. (2013, January 4). The CIA’s Big Year on the Big Screen. Commentary Magazine.
• Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. (2013, April 3). Ethics on Film: Discussion of “Argo.” Carnegie Council.
• Cha, J. (2013). The Fiendish Plots of Dr. Fu Manchu in the Twenty-First Century: The Yellow Peril in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy. Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, 12(1).
• ChinaFile. (2013, April 25). Can Hollywood Romance Chinese Film-Goers? The Atlantic.
• Christian, A. J. (2013). The Black TV Crisis and the Next Generation. Flow, 18(5).
• Cohen, A. (2011, March 31). Putin and Medvedev Go to Hollywood. The National Interest.
• Folch, C. (2013, June 13). Why the West Loves Sci-Fi and Fantasy: A Cultural Explanation. The Atlantic.
• Friedersdorf, C. (2013, June 28). A Sneak Peek at the American TV News Network Al Jazeera Is Building. The Atlantic.
• Galloway, S. (2012, November). Hollywood. Foreign Policy.
• Goldman, L. (2013, February 22). Israel’s Script Turns Sour. Foreign Policy.
• Haglund, D. (2012, October 12). How Accurate Is Argo? Brow Beat.
• He, A. (2013, September 18). “Asian Eye” Surgery and Media Racism. The Atlantic.
• Jones, N. (2012, October 18). The True Spy Story Behind Argo. Foreign Policy.
• Kang, I. (2013, March 20). Hollywood’s Changing Its Movies to Appease the Chinese? Good. The Atlantic.
• Keating, J. E. (2013, April). Insecurity Camera. Foreign Policy.
• Ma, D. (2013, February 22). Rolling out the Red Carpet. Foreign Policy.
• Nordenstreng, K. (2013). How the New World Order and Imperialism Challenge Media Studies. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. 11(2), 348–358.
• Nossel, S. (2013, May 9). Iron Man vs. the Super Censors. Foreign Policy.
• Pierson, D. (2011, March 16). Reel China: Hollywood tries to stay on China’s good side. latimes.com.
• Qian, W. (2013, April 1). In China, the Subversiveness of Historical Films. The Atlantic.
• Simonnes, K. (2013, June 21). Norsk popmusikk er ikke typisk norsk. forskning.no.
• Sjaastad, E. O. (2013, July 30). Den tynne røde linjen. Rushprint.
• Usher, N. (2013, August 19). Can Al Jazeera America Win the Cable Wars? The Atlantic.
• Recently, the book Battlestar Galactica and International Relations, edited by Nicholas J. Kiersey and Iver B. Neumann was released. It can be previewed here on Google Books. 
• Arquilla, J. (2013, April 1). Would Captain Kirk Intervene in Syria? Foreign Policy.
• Gittell, N. (2013, May 22). George W. Bush Might Approve of Star Trek Into Darkness. The Atlantic.

Nye former for politisk kommunikasjon på Forskningsdagene

Da er heftige Forskningsdager - midt oppe i vanlig kurs - over for mitt vedkommende. Bare en kort oppsummering her.

Kronikk om Nye former for politisk kommunikasjon
Resultatet er blant annet en kronikk publisert 23. september i GD om Nye former for politisk kommunikasjon skrevet sammen med kollega professor Jon Helge Lesjø.  Vi la også ut en multimedial utdyping av kronikken vår. Den kan du se rett under her:




Arrangement om temaet
Jon Helge og jeg stod også bak et arrangement om temaet, avholdt 24. september på Lillehammer Litteraturhus. Ved siden av våre egne foredrag bidrog også Halvard Grotli (politisk redaktør i GD),  Sunniva Ihle Steinstad (kommunikasjonssjef i Høyre) og Aksel Hagen (tidligere stortingsrepresentant, SV) med inviterte kommentarer. Det kom også interessante innspill, spørsmål og kommentarer fra salen.


Foredrag om Nye sosiale medier
En lett modifisert versjon av foredraget mitt om "Nye sosiale medier" som ble holdt på ovennevnte arrangemen kan du se her eller rett under.

3.2. Terrorism

Goals of learning from this lesson:

• What is terrorism?
• How do you differentiate between "old" and "new" forms of terrorism?
• Why is the relation between mainstream media and terrorists sometimes regarded as symbiotic?
• What is radicalization and how can terrorist groups create their own media systems to achieve this?

The lecture

Browse through the latest lecture presentation in BA-Course at Lillehammer College.





The literature:

Seib, P. M., & Janbek, D. M. (2011). Communicating Terror. 21p. *
Hoskins, A., & O’Loughlin, B. (2010). War and media. Chap. 8. 16p.
Oates, S. (2008). Introduction to media and politics. Chap. 7. 18p.

Watch relevant videos

Aspen Ideas Festival: The Media's Role in Covering Terrorism

Glenn Greenwald: Norway Attacks Expose U.S. Media's Double Standard On "Terrorism"

Terror and social media

More from the YouTube playlist


Useful links

• Boggs, C., & Pollard, T. (2006). Hollywood and the Spectacle of Terrorism. New Political Science, 28(3), 335–351.
• Busch, T. (2013, May 14). How Twitter Is Messing With Al-Qaeda’s Careful PR Machine. The Atlantic.
• Carter, S., & Dodds, K. (2011). Hollywood and the “war on terror”: genre-geopolitics and “Jacksonianism” in The Kingdom. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 29(1), 98 – 113.
• Falkenrath, R. A. (2012, December 14). The Holes in “Homeland.” Foreign Affairs.
• Kamin, D. (2013, April). “Homeland” in the Holy Land. Foreign Policy.
• Keating, J. E. (2012, November 23). Homeland Insecurity. Foreign Policy.
• Terrorism and the Press.
• Motlagh, J. (2009, May 3). Why the Taliban Is Winning the Propaganda War. Time.
• Nieuwenhuis, M. (2013, February 7). The enemy within: the new antagonists in Hollywood. openDemocracy.
• Seib, P. M., & Janbek, D. M. (2011). Global Terrorism and New Media: The Post-Al Qaeda Generation. Taylor & Francis.
• Terrorism Movies at the Box Office - Box Office Mojo.
• Hoffman, B. (2012, December 18). Spoiler Alert. Foreign Policy.
• Jensen, C. (2010, June 12). Velkommen til Armadillo. Ekkofilm.
• Jyllandsposten. (2010, May 16). “Armadillo”: Den vigtigste danske dokumentar. Jyllandsposten.
• Marthinsen, T. J. R. (2010, August 18). Velkommen til «Armadillo».

Info on Al-Shabaab.

• Stanford University. (2013, September 29). Al-Shabab. Mapping Militant Organizations.
• Masters, J. (2013, July 9). Al-Shabaab. Council on Foreign Relations.
• Bruton, B., & Pham, J. P. (2012, February 2). The Splintering of Al Shabaab. Foreign Affairs.
• Anzalone, C. (2011). Who are Somalia’s “al-Shabab?” openDemocracy.
• Anzalone, C. (2011, November 16). The rapid evolution of Al-Shabab’s media and insurgent “journalism.” openDemocracy.
• Wise, R. (2011). Al-Shabaab. Center for Strategic and International Studies.

3.1. War

Goals of learning from this lesson:

• What is "media management" in war?
• How are the development of media vectors influencing the mediation of war?
• How do you explain national media's tendency for patrioting reporting?
• Why may new media contribute to diffused wars?
• When can we say wars have legitimacy among citizens?

The lecture

Browse through the lecture on War, which is part of my BA-course in Media & Politics at Lillehammer University College.





The literature:

• Hoskins, A., & O’Loughlin, B. (2010). War and media. Chap. 7 & 9. 70p.
• Oates, S. (2008). Introduction to media and politics. Chap. 6. 18p.

Watch relevant videos
Philip Seib: Digital Diplomacy

Edward Snowden and the NSA leaks

 Dexter Filkins: Tales From the Front Lines (Reporting From Iraq and Afghanistan)

Watch more from the YouTube playlist here

 
Useful links

• Cheng, D. (n.d.). Winning Without Fighting:  The Chinese Psychological Warfare Challenge. The Heritage Foundation.
• Democracy Now. (2013, January 22). Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley’s New Film Exposes Hidden Truths of Covert U.S. Warfare. Democracy Now!
• Keating, J. E. (2013, February 22). Does Hollywood Have a Foreign Policy? Foreign Policy.
• Seitz-Wald, A. (2013, September 13). The Public Relations Firm Straight Out of a John Grisham Novel. The Atlantic.
• Nye Jr, J. S. (2013, September 9). The Mouse Click that Roared. Project Syndicate.
• Cohen, M. (2002). How Bush Sr. Sold the Gulf War. Counterpunch, (Weekend Edition December 28.-30).
• Cull, N. J. (2006). “The Perfect War”: US Public Diplomacy and International Broadcasting During Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 1990/1991. Arab Media & Society, (Fall).
• New York Times. (1992, January 15). Deception on Capitol Hill. New York Times.
• Caryl, C. (2013, September 5). Just Show It. Foreign Policy.
• Friedersdorf, C. (2013, September 3). The Press and the Syria Debate: Neither Neutral Nor Balanced. The Atlantic.
• Garber, M. (2013, September 5). Assad’s Bizarre Instagram Account: Propaganda With a Comments Section. The Atlantic.
• Kirchick, J. (2013, September 13). Public Editing Putin. Foreign Policy.
• Tepperman, J. (2013, September 8). Weighing War, Peace and Polls. The New York Times.
• Putin, V. V. (2013, September 11). A Plea for Caution From Russia. The New York Times.
• Smith, R. (2013, September 16). A complicated relationship: Libya, Syria and the international press. openDemocracy.
• Suri, J. (2013, September 16). Offensive Charm. Foreign Affairs.
• Trenin, D. (2013, September 13). The West Just Doesn’t Get Putin. Bloomberg. Retrieved September 14, 2013, from
• Mohan, A. V. (2013, September 16). Journalism in Syria is fast becoming a one-way ticket to death. openDemocracy.

2.4. Empowerment

Goals of learning from this lesson

• What is the media's role in maintaining or changing power relationships?
• How is gender constructed through the media?
• Why can the internet be regarded as "helpful" for political participation and protest?
• When might the internet be harmful for democracy?

The lecture

Browse through lecture from course in Media & Politics at Lillehammer College.



The literature

• Hodkinson, P. (2011). Media, culture and society. Chap. 11. 22p.
• Curran, J. et al. (2012). Misunderstanding the Internet. Chap. 5-6. 45 p.
• Oates, S. (2008). Introduction to media and politics. Chap. 9. 19p.
• Shirky, C. (2011). The Political Power of Social Media. 13p.*

Watch relevant videos

Clay Shirky - Here Comes Everybody

Evgeny Morozov: To Save Everything Click Here

Ethan Zuckerman: Cute Cats and the Arab Spring

Tavi Gevinson: A teen just trying to figure it out

Watch more on the YouTube playlist



Useful links

The Internet Debate

• Nye Jr, J. S. (2011, February 2). The Reality of Virtual Power. Project Syndicate.
• Lovink, G. (2013, April 23). Evgeny Morozov attacks internet consensus single-handed. openDemocracy.
• Morozov, E. (2009a). Texting toward utopia: Does the Internet spread democracy. Boston Review.
• Morozov, E. (2010). Think Again: The Internet. Foreign Policy, May/June 2010.
• Morozov, Evgeny. (2009a). How dictators watch us on the web. Prospect.
• Morozov, Evgeny. (2009b, September 5). From slacktivism to activism. Foreign Policy Blogs.
• Morozov, Evgeny. (2011c, August 13). Repressing the Internet, Western-Style. Wall Street Journal.
• Morozov, Evgeny. (2011d, September 1). Political Repression 2.0. The New York Times.
• Meier, P. (2011). Do “liberation Technologies” Change the Balance of Power Between Repressive States and Civil Society. The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
• Williamson, A. (2011). Disruption and Empowerment.
• Poole, S. (2012, June 12). Invasion of the cyber hustlers. New Statesman.
• Shirky, Clay. (2009, November 12). The net advantage. Prospect.
• Wasik, B. (2011, December 27). Gladwell vs. Shirky: A Year Later, Scoring the Debate Over Social-Media Revolutions. Wired.com.
• Doctorow, C. (2011, January 25). We need a serious critique of net activism. the Guardian.
• Doctorow, C. (2012, January 3). The internet is the best place for dissent to start. the Guardian.
• Zuckerman, E. (2013b, April 29). Who’s Afraid of Cyberoptimism? Foreign Policy.
• Zuckerman, E. (2013c, October 7). Surveillance, sousveillance and PRISM – an op-ed for Die Zeit.
• Gladwell, M. (2010, April 10). Small change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted. The New Yorker.

 You might also want to have a look on classic writings:

• Wells, H. G. (1937). World brain.
• Bentham, J. (1995). The panopticon writings.
• See the following for comments about the Panopticon on the Internet: Farinosi, M. (2011). Deconstructing Bentham’s Panopticon: The New Metaphors of Surveillance in the Web 2.0 Environment.

The Arab Spring and the Media

• Bachrach, J. (2011). WikiHistory: Did the Leaks Inspire the Arab Spring? World Affairs Journal.
• Chatriwala, O. (2011, September 19). What Wikileaks Tells Us About Al Jazeera. Foreign Policy.
• Fukuyama, F. (2012, May 21). The Failures of the Facebook Generation in the Arab Spring. The Daily Beast.
• Gause, F. G., & Iii. (2012, December 31). The Year the Arab Spring Went Bad. Foreign Policy.
• Jones, S. G. (2013, July 21). The Enduring Mirage of the Arab Spring. Foreign Affairs.
• Morozov, Evgeny. (2011b, March 27). Internet alone cannot free the Middle East. Financial Times.
• Lindgren, S. (2013). The Potential and Limitations of Twitter Activism: Mapping the 2011 Libyan Uprising. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 11(1), 207–220.
• Lindsay, R. A. (2013). What the Arab Spring Tells Us About the Future of Social Media in Revolutionary Movements. Small Wars Journal.
• Pollock, J. (2011). Streetbook. Technology Review, (September/October).
• Waters, T. J. (2012). Social Media and the Arab Spring. Small Wars Journal.
• Wilkens, R. (2012). Mannheim’s Paradox: Ideology, Utopia, Media Technologies, and the Arab Spring. Fibreculture Journal, (20).

Gender and empowerment

• Ackerman, S. (2012, August 3). Making Punk a Threat Again. Foreign Policy.
• Fedotova, Y. (2012, May 30). Why are Pussy Riot girls still in prison? openDemocracy.
• Free Pussy Riot!
• Homans, C. (2012, August 3). You Say You Want a Revolution. Foreign Policy.
• Ioffe, J. (2012, June 8). Pussy Riot v. Putin: A Front Row Seat at a Russian Dark Comedy. The New Republic.
• McVeigh, T. (2013, June 1). Meet the new wave of activists making feminism thrive in a digital age. The Guardian.
• Brenner, M. (2013, April 1). The Target. Vanity Fair, (April). About Malala
• Manchanda, N. (2012, July 11). Out of nowhere? The Taliban and Malala. openDemocracy.
• Bigg, C. (2013, July 16). France Puts Femen’s Face on Its Stamps. The Atlantic.
• Kolsy, U. (2013, May 6). Put Your Shirts Back On: Why Femen Is Wrong. The Atlantic.
• Mustafa, N. (2013, April 8). Put Your Shirts Back On, Ladies. Foreign Policy.
• Tayler, J. (2013a, April 8). Subject of Femen’s Topless Jihad Questions the Group’s Tactics. The Atlantic.
• Tayler, J. (2013b, May 1). Topless Jihad: Why Femen Is Right. The Atlantic.

2.3. Hate and conspiracy

Goals of learning from this lesson

• What are "media templates"?
• How are genocides pre- and post mediated?
• How do you de recognize a genocide?
• Why are conspiracy theories so hard to kill?
• When is it reasonable to talk about "conspiracy cultures"?

The lecture

This lecture in my BA Course on Media & Politics at Lillehammer University College can be viewed below as a Prezi-presentation.

 


The literature: 

• Aupers, S. (2012). “Trust No One”: Modernization, Paranoia and Conspiracy Culture. 12p. *
• Arnold, G. B. (2008). Belief and Disbelief. 14p. *
• Hoskins, A., & O’Loughlin, B. (2010). War and media. Chap. 5. 17p.
• Sunstein, C. R., & Vermeule, A. (2009). Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures. 25p

Watch relevant videos

Karen Douglas On Conspiracy Theories

The Milgram Experiment

Daniel Goldhagen's "Genocide - Worse than War"

Watch more on the YouTube playlist

Useful links

• Douglas, K. (2013, April 19). Boston and Waco conspiracy theories are inevitable. The Guardian.
• Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind! 
• Anderson, S. (2013, August 8). Conspiracy Theories: the One Thing Everyone in Lebanon Has in Common. The Atlantic.
• Arnold, G. B. (2008). Conspiracy theory in film, television, and politics. Greenwood Publishing Group.
• Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. (2013). Hotel Rwanda. Carnegie Council.
• Chapman, R. (2010). Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices. M.E. Sharpe.
• Coady, D. A. (2010). Jesse Ventura Takes the Soaring Interest in Conspiracy Theory to TV. 
• Conspiracy Theory On truTV. 
• De Graaf, B., va der Heide, L., Wanmaker, S., & Weggemans, D. (2013). The Anders Behring Breivik Trial: Performing Justice, Defending Democracy. International Centre for Counter-Terrorism.
• Kahlke, R. (2007). Understanding Genocide?: Western Cinematic Depictions of Rwanda and Bosnia. Politics and Culture, (2).
• Leurs, R. (2013). “ War crimes’ are defined by the winners. I”m a winner.’. FlowTV, 18(6).
• McDonnell, D. A., & Cantrell, M. A. (2013, June 6). 5 Conspiracy Theories That Are Shockingly Easy to Debunk. Cracked.com.
• One, C. (n.d.). The 9/11 Truth Movement: The Top Conspiracy Theory, a Decade Later. 
• Powell, E. (1968, April 20). Rivers of Blood Speech.
• Schwartzstein, P. (2013, September 12). Egypt’s Latest Conspiracy Theories Target the Country’s Syrian Refugees. The Atlantic. 
• Ghosts of Rwanda - When PBS Frontline made a documentary about the genocide they also made some excellent pages with extra resources. 
• BBC's pages on Rwanda 
• The use of Propaganda in the Rwanda Genocide - Masters thesis by H.L. Gulseth.

2.2. The Public Sphere

Goals of learning from this lesson

• What is a public sphere?
• How are imagined communities - such as nations - affected by the mass media?
• How do you explain that audiences may be transformed into pro-sumers/prod-users by internet technology?
• Why is there a division between centripetal and centrifugal media?
• When can the internet be regarded as contributing to centrifugality?

The lecture

This lecture in my BA Course on Media & Politics at Lillehammer University College can be viewed below as a Prezi-presentation.



The literature:
Curran, J. et al. (2012). Misunderstanding the Internet. Chap. 2, 4. 68p.
Hodkinson, P. (2011). Media, culture and society. Chapter 9. 18p.

Watch relevant videos

Habermas' Public Sphere

Yochai Benkler on Truthiness and the Networked Public Sphere

Eli Pariser - The Filter Bubble: What The Internet Is Hiding From You

Watch more on the YouTube playlist



Useful links

• Anderson, B. (2006). Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London: Verso.
• Gellner, E. (1983). Nations and nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Standage, T. (2013, June 22). Social Networking in the 1600s. The New York Times.
• Green, M. (2013). The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse. The Public Domain Review.
• Clinton, H. (2010, January 21). Remarks on Internet Freedom. U.S. Department of State. Both transcript and video of her speech is included. 
• Jared Cohen: The Engine of Freedom. Google's Jared Cohen is one of the premier optimists about the internet's ability to create a free public sphere.
• Or check the sobering statistics from Freedom House and World Press Trends and the Economist's piece on A virtual counter-revolution.
• Tim Berners-Lee: Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality.
• David Hardake: How TV and the Internet are Changing Arab Politics. Full lecture on video.
• Gauntlett, D. (2008). Wikipedia explained. Theory.org.uk.
• Stanger, J. (2011, December 8). The “Digital Public Sphere” and the “Indifference of 25 Year Olds”. Center for Digital Information.
• Rasan, I. (2014, June 6). Graffiti: a new form of expression on the walls of Cairo.
• Tiezzi, S. (2014, August 20). China’s Quest to Build an “Influential and Credible” Media. 
• Calhoun, C. J. (Ed.). (1992). Habermas and the Public Sphere. MIT Press.
• Dahlberg, L. (2001). Extending the public sphere through cyberspace. First Monday, (3)
• Etling, B., Roberts, H., & Faris, R. (2014). Blogs as an Alternative Public Sphere: The Role of Blogs, Mainstream Media, and TV in Russia’s Media Ecology (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 2427932). Rochester, NY: Berkman Center for Internet & Society 
• Ichijo, A. (2013, June 17). The durability of nations and nationalism.

• Eriksen, T. H. (2006). Nations in cyberspace.  ASEN conference, London School of Economics
• Karner, C. (2013, May 3). From collective myth to counterpublics: negotiating national identity in an age of global flows.
• Etling, B., Society, H. L. S. B. C. for I. and, & Project, I. & D. (2009). Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent. Internet & Democracy Project, Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
• Farrell, H., & Sides, J. (2010). Building a Political Science Public Sphere with Blogs. The Forum, 8, 10.
• Fuchs, C. (2014). Social Media and the Public Sphere. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 12(1), 57–101.
• Geiger, R. S. (2009). Does Habermas Understand the Internet? The Algorithmic Construction of the Blogo/Public Sphere. Gnovis, 10(1).
• Habermas, J., Lennox, S., & Lennox, F. (1974). The public sphere: An encyclopedia article (1964). New German Critique, (3), 49–55.
• Johannessen, M. R., & Følstad, A. (2014). Political Social Media sites as Public Sphere: A Case Study of the Norwegian Labour Party.
• Kellner, D. (2001). Techno-politics, new technologies, and the new public Spheres. Illuminations, January.
• Stray, J. (2011, November 29). What should the digital public sphere do?
• Valtysson, B. (2012). Facebook as a Digital Public Sphere: Processes of Colonization and Emancipation. tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation, 10(1), 77–91.

2.1. Representative Democracy

Goals of learning from this lesson:

• What is the role of the media in elections?
• How are different political contexts in different countries influencing this role?
• How do you explain voting behavior through differentiating between long term and short term factors?
• Why might new media and the internet influence campaigning?

The lecture

Browse through the presentation from my BA-course in Media & Politics at Lillehammer College.

The literature: 

• Oates, S. (2008). Introduction to media and politics. Chap. 5 & 8. 43p.
• Aardal, B., & Waldahl, R. (2004). Political cleavages in a media-driven environment. 27p. *

Watch relevant videos

Justin Lewis: Constructing Public Opinion

Jesper Strömbäck: Den medialiserade valrörelsen

Beppe Grillo and the Five Stars Political Movement

Watch more on the YouTube playlist

Useful links

• DeFrank, T. (2014, August 9). Five Days in August: What It Was Like to Report Watergate.
• Helmore, E. (2013, July 27). Anthony Weiner sext scandal reveals the almighty power of the internet. The Guardian.
• Keller, E. G. (2013, February 19). House of Cards Is a House of Cards. Foreign Policy.
• Tets, F. V. (2013, May 28). Political Idol. Foreign Policy.
• Chadwick, A. (2013). The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power. OUP USA.
• Dargis, M. (2010, February 11). Study of Berlusconi: TV Mogul, Prime Minister, Tabloid Star.
• Griziotti, G. (2011, September 30). Murdoch and Berlusconi: the fall of two media empires and the network multitudes.
• Lloyd, J., & Giugliano, F. (2013, April 8). Intimate fusion: media and political power in Silvio Berlusconi’s Italy.
• PEW Research Center - Enormous amounts of data on the media and elections
• Sam Graham Felsen: Barack Obama´s Online Strategy. A video presentation by one of the most central strategists in the Obama camapaigns.
• Conservative Super Pacs turn to social media and internet to expand reach
• US elections 2012: is Facebook 'the real presidential swing state'?
• Aaron David Miller (Foreign Policy): Why Obama Will Win
• David Corn: SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters. The article in Mother Jones which published the videos (they're all embedded in the article)
• Greene, A. (2012, October 18). Bruce Springsteen and Bill Clinton Rally for Obama.
  Lutz, M. (2009). The Social Pulpit: Barack Obama’s Social Media Toolkit. Edelman, 6.

1.4. The audience

Goals of learning from this lesson:

• What is "the propaganda thesis?
• How are opinion leaders siuated in the flow of information?
• How do you explain correlation between use of media and personal attitudes/behaviour?
• Why does the audience's reading of media texts sometimes deviate from the preferred reading?
• When is it reasonable to describe audiences as active, creative and productive?

The lecture

Fifth lecture in my BA Course on Media & Politics at at Lillehammer University College can be viewed below as a Prezi-presentation.

The Literature: 

• Hodkinson, P. (2011). Media, culture and society. Chap. 5. 18p.
• Oates, S. (2008). Introduction to media and politics. Chap. 4. 24p.

Relevant videos to watch

Stuart Hall - Representation & The Media. Go here for Part II | Part Three | Part Four

 Michael Wesch: An anthropological introduction to YouTube

Cory Doctorow: Rethinking Property Rights in the Digital Age

Watch more on the YouTube playlist


Useful links

• PBS Frontline. (n.d.). Digital Nation - Life On The Virtual Frontier.
• Vinik, D. (2014, June 10). Does Fox News Cause Ignorance, or Do Ignorant Viewers Prefer Fox News? The New Republic.
• Barker, M., & Mathijs, E. (2012). Researching World Audiences: the Experience of a Complex Methodology. Participations, 9(1).
• Bowman, S., & Willis, C. (2003). We media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information.
• Carpentier, N., & Dahlgren, P. (2011). Interrogating audiences: Theoretical horizons of participation. Communication Management Quarterly, 6(21).
• D’Addario, D. (2013, March 19). Ten years of Iraq War films: Why audiences shunned movies about Mideast.
• Drotner, K. (2004). Disney Dilemmas. Audience Negotiations of Media Globalization. Nordicom Review, (1-2).
• Hermes, J. (2009). Audience Studies 2.0. On the theory, politics and method of qualitative audience research. Interactions: Studies in Communication &# 38; Culture, 1(1), 111–127.
• Kamerer, D. (2013). Estimating online audiences: Understanding the limitations of competitive intelligence services. First Monday, 18(5).
• Kyriakidou, M. (2014). Distant Suffering in Audience Memory: The Moral Hierarchy of Remembering. International Journal of Communication, 8(0), 21.
• Livingstone, S. (2003). The changing nature of audiences: From the mass audience to the interactive media user. A Companion to Media Studies, 337–359.
• Metykova, M. (2008). Drifting apart? European journalists and their audiences. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 5(2), 42–59.
• Prior, K. S. (2013, October 18). The New, Old Way to Tell Stories: With Input From the Audience.
• TNS Gallup - Medier - Reports and statistics about Norwegian media use.
• Statistisk Sentralbyrå: Norsk Mediebarometer - More general trends and over longer time periods.
• International Telecommunications Union - Lots of data and info from the relevant IGO..
• UNESCO - Communication and information - The UN organization.
• The World Bank - Global information and communication

1.2. Framing

Goals of learning from this lesson

• What is framing?
• How are the media supposed to be manipulating viewers?
• How do you analyse one or several texts?
• Why is globalization of the media sometimes characterised as "cultural imperialism"?
• When is a situation a changed into "middle range behaviour"? 

The lecture

Third lecture in a BA Course on Media & Politics at at Lillehammer University College can be viewed below as a Prezi-presentation.

Literature:

• Hodkinson, P. (2011). Media, culture and society. Chap. 4 & 6. 44p.
• Hoskins, A., & O’Loughlin, B. (2010). War and media. Chap. 2. 17p.
• Meyrowitz, J. (1985), Media, Situations and Behaviour. 16p. *

Watch relevant videos

Joshua Meyrowitz on media and framing

Nick Davies  - bestselling author of Flat Earth News

Malcolm Gladwell: An 'Unreal' Image Changed Civil Rights Forever

Watch more on the YouTube playlist

Useful links:

• Breaking the Silence : Israeli soldiers talk about the occupied territories. 
• Burke-White, W. (2014, August 8). The Framing of MH-17. 
• CCN Media. (2010, July 21). Signifier and Signified.
• D’Addario, D. (2013, May 14). “24? returns: Is Dick Cheney programming Fox?
• Wittkower, D. E. (2014). Facebook and dramauthentic identity: A post-Goffmanian theory of identity performance on SNS. First Monday, 19(4). 
• Wolcott, J. (2013, August 1). Washington Noir. Vanity Fair, (August). 
• The Daily Show does political satire at an advanced level
• Jester, Fake Journalist, or the New Walter Lippmann? Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt attempts an academic analysis of Jon Stewart's suksess. 
• Billings, S. (2012, November 3). “LillyHammer” TV Show Reveals the Corrupt, Alcoholic Culture of Socialist Norway.

1.1. Power

Goals of learning from this lesson: 

• What is power - and MEDIA power?
• How is "framing" related to power?
• How do oligopoly fit as a description of the global media industry?
• Why is it still necessary to differentiate between different national media systems and types of news production in a global age?
• Is "cyber power" different from other types of power?

The lecture

Second lecture in a BA Course on Media & Politics at at Lillehammer University College can be viewed below as a Prezi-presentation.

Literature:

• Curran, J. et al. (2012). Misunderstanding the Internet. Chap. 1. 23p.
• Nye Jr, J. S. (2010). Cyber Power. 18p.*
• Oates, S. (2008). Introduction to media and politics. Chap. 2. 26p.
• Hodkinson, P. (2011). Media, culture and society. Chap. 3. 19p.

Total: 86p

Watch relevant videosJoseph Nye on "The Future of Power"

Philip Seib and the Power of Soft Power

Watch more on the YouTube playlist



Useful links

• Monocle. (2013). Soft Power Survey - 2012. Monocle.
• Foreign Policy. (2013). The FP Power Map. Foreign Policy, (May/June).
• Lloyd, J., & Giugliano, F. (2013, April 8). Intimate fusion: media and political power in Silvio Berlusconi’s Italy. openDemocracy.
• Barnett, A. (2012, May 28). Some people, Mr Cameron - the Murdochs and a Satanic deal. openDemocracy.
• Hanson, F. (2011, March 31). Harnessing the Power of Social Media in International Relations. ISN Insights.
• Griziotti, G. (2011, September 30). Murdoch and Berlusconi: the fall of two media empires and the network multitudes. openDemocracy.
• Entman, R. M. (2003). Cascading Activation: Contesting the White House’s Frame After 9/11. Political Communication, 20(4), 415–432.
• Nye Jr, J. S. (2011, February 2). The Reality of Virtual Power. Project Syndicate.
• Sheoin, T. M. (2013). Framing the movement, framing the protest: mass media coverage of the anti-globalisation movement. Interface, 5(1), 272–365.
• Richani, S. E. (2012). Comparing Media Systems in the “West” and beyond. Global Media Journal (German Edition).
• Carr, J. (2012). No Laughing Matter: The Power of Cyberspace to Subvert Conventional Media Gatekeepers. International Journal of Communication, 6. Retrieved from
• Deibert, R., Palfrey, J. G., Rohozinski, R., & Zittrain, J. (2010). Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace. MIT Press.
• Internet World Stats

Introduction to Media & Politics

Goals of learning from this lesson

• What is communication?
• How are media as technology affecting the development of society and politics?
• How do you differentiate between mediation and mediatization?
• Why does recent warfare tend to take the form of "diffused wars"?
• Which research design should I choose for media studies? 

The lecture

First lecture in a BA Course on Media & Politics at at Lillehammer University College can be viewed below as a Prezi-presentation.

Literature:

• Hodkinson, P. (2011). Media, culture and society. Chap. 1-2. 32p.
• Hoskins, A., & O’Loughlin, B. (2010). War and media. Chap. 1. 18p.
• Strömbäck, J. (2008). Four Phases of Mediatization.18p. *
• Oates, S. (2008). Introduction to media and politics. Chap. 1 & 10. 32p.

Relevant videos

Watch more on the YouTube playlist

 
Useful links
Some vital data and information on global media

• Freedom House: http://www.freedomhouse.org/
• Pew Research Center: http://www.pewresearch.org/ and its internet division http://www.pewinternet.org/
• Internet World Stats: http://www.internetworldstats.com/
• Statistisk sentralbyrå. Norsk mediebarometer. Statistisk sentralbyrå. http://ssb.no/kultur-og-fritid/statistikker/medie/aar/2013-04-16
• Guardian. (2007, October 3). Internet news, comment and analysis.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/internet
• Guardian. (2007, October 25). Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media

Internet history

• Berners-Lee, T. (1989). The original proposal of the WWW. w3.org.  http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
  
• Wired. (2005, August 13). 10 Years That Changed the World. Wired. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/intro.html
  
• Stille, A. (2000, October 14). Marshall McLuhan Is Back From the Dustbin of History; With the Internet, His Ideas Again Seem Ahead of Their Time. New York Times.  http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/14/arts/marshall-mcluhan-back-dustbin-history-with-internet-his-ideas-again-seem-ahead.html