Media and Globalisation Knut Lundby …
Media and Globalisation
Knut Lundby (knut.lundby@media.uio.no) & Sarah Chiumbu (s.h.chiumbu@media.uio.no)
Welcome to the course on media and globalisation this term! Important changes/messages will be relayed to you through the billboard on the course web site.
The seminars
Sarah Chiumbu has the main responsibility for the seminars. Three seminar groups are planned, one for the MA and two for the BA level. The MA group will meet on Tuesday, ahead of that week’s lecture. The BA seminar groups meet on Friday, the day after the lecture. The MA seminars will to a large extent concentrate on the term paper (essay) that makes up the exam of MEVIT 4220. The BA seminars will in various ways prepare for the home exam of MEVIT 3220. See the separate documents with Seminar Details for MEVIT 3220 and MEVIT 4220 respectively.
The lectures
Knut Lundby has the main responsibility for the lectures. There are four kinds: 1) Overview (the first and the last lecture) 2) Comparative perspectives: One lecturer comes from Africa and one from Europe; one is female and the other male. We will focus the economic and technological changes within the media and cultural industries in Africa vs. Europe from political economy and cultural studies perspectives respectively, as laid out in the course content description (cf. the web). 3) Theoretical approaches: Further, we will deal with each of the five theories listed in the course content description: information society, network society, global flows of communication, structuration theory and time/space disjunctures 4) Guest lectures – selected cases Prominent guest speakers are invited to the course. In addtion, Knut Lundby will give a lecture on the conflict over the cartoons of the prophet Muhammed early 2006. Please see the separate document with Lecture Details.