Issues and readings
What does digitalization mean for the future of television? Which implications may this have for public and private television? Which changes has the telecom sector gone through the last decades? What are current challenges for the telcos and in telecom markets?
Obligatory Readings:
Brown, Allen and Robert G Picard (eds) Digital Terrestrial Television in Europe, London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers. (Chapters 3 and 4).
Shapiro, Carl and Hal R Varian (1999) Information Rules. A Strategic guide to the Network Economy, Boston: Harvard Business School Press. (Chapter 7)
Storsul, Tanja and Vilde Schanke Sundet (2006) ”Digital terrestrial television in Scandinavia” in Fausto Colombo (ed) Digitizing TV, Milan: Vita & Pensiero.
Recommended Readings
Storsul, Tanja (2006) Bottlenecks as Positions of Power Conference Paper, COST A20 Conference, Delphi 26-28 April 2006.
Syvertsen, Trine (2005) ”Television and multi-platform media hybrids. Corporate strategies and regulatory dilemmas” paper presented at Nordic Media Conference, Aalborg August 2005.
Skogerb?, Eli and Tanja Storsul (2003) Telesektoren i endring. M?l, midler og marked , Oslo: Unipub.