Tuesday 26 February Prof. Day ¡­

Tuesday 26 February Prof. Day Thussu from University of Westminster will lecture at the Fritt Ord House, Uranienborgveien 2. Consequently the class will meet there. The first lecture is from 10.15 - 12.00. The second from 13.00 - 15.00. Lunch will be served. For more information see below:

The first lecture is on: The ¡®Bollywoodization¡¯ of TV News?

The lecture focuses on recent changes in broadcasting news media in India, which have grown from a state-controlled monopoly to a thriving professional electronic journalism: with more than 40 television news channels, unrivalled by any other country. However, growing marketization of television has contributed to ¡®Bollywoodization¡¯ of news - defined as a trend towards infotainment, with serious implications for the public sphere in the world¡¯s largest democracy.

The second lecture is on "War as Infotainment"

In a commercially-driven broadcasting environment, operating in a fiercely competitive and increasingly fragmented news market, contemporary television journalism is tending toward infotainment. Given the characteristics of TV news, coverage of wars is particularly susceptible to infotainment. This lecture will examine television images of recent wars as ¡®humanitarian interventions¡¯, drawing on a range of examples.

Bio note on Professor Thussu.

Daya Thussu is Professor of International Communication at the University of Westminster in London. Among his recent publications are: News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (2007); Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-flow (2007); International Communication - Continuity and Change (2006) and Internationalizing Media Studies (forthcoming, 2008). He is the Founder and Managing Editor of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication.