Reading list
Syllabus/achievement requirements
Books
Hallin, Daniel C. and Paolo Mancini (2004), Comparing Media Systems. Three Models of media and Politics, Cambridge University Press. Part 2. The Three Models. (pp 89-248). 161 pages.
Hilson, Mary (2008/2010), The Nordic Model. Scandinavia since 1945, London: Reaktion Books. 190 pages.
Lowe, Gregory Ferrell and Christian S. Nissen (eds.) (2011), Small Among Giants: Television Broadcasting in Smaller Countries, Nordicom, 231 pages.
Syvertsen, Trine, Gunn Enli, Ole J. Mj?s and Hallvard Moe (2014): The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era. University of Michigan Press. 130 pages.
Downloadable articles (To get access to the articles you have to go via the bibsys library system)
There might be some changes to the article list.
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Allern, Sigurd and Mark Blach-?rsten (2011), "The News Media as a Political Institution", Journalism Studies, 12:1, 92-105. Link
Asbj?rnsen, Dag and Ove Solum (2003), ”The Best Cinema System in the World” The Municipal Cinema System in Norway: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, in Nordicom Informasjon 1-2/2003. Link
Brink Lund, Anker (2007), ”Media markets in Scandinavia. Political Economy Aspects of Convergence and Divergence.” in Nordicom Review. pp. 121-134. Link
Brink Lund, Anker and Christian Edelvold Berg (2009), ”Denmark, Sweden and Norway: Television Diversity by Duopolistic. Competition and Co-Regulation” International Communication Gazette 71. pp 19-37. Link
Carlsson, Ulla (2007), ”Media and Mass Communication Research. Past, Present and Future. Reflections from a Nordic Horizon.” Nordicom Review, pp. 223-229. Link
Elvestad, E. and A. Blekesaune (2008), "Newspaper Readers in Europe: A Multilevel Study of Individual and National Differences", in European Journal of Communication. Pages 425-447. Link
Givskov, Cecilie (2014), "Urban, ethnic, provinicial: Anticipations of audience preferences in Danish film funding and production", Journal of Scandinavia Vinema. Pages 133-148. Link
Greve, Bent (2007), "What Characterises the Nordic Welfare Model", Journal of Social Sciences, 3 (2). Pages 43-51. Link
Hjarvard, Stig and Aske Kammer (2015), "Online news: between private enterprise and public subsidy", Media, Culture & Society. vol. 3 (1), pp. 115-123. Link. A pdf is also uploaded in Fronter.
Hovden, Jan Fredrik, et. al. (2009), ”The Nordic Journalists of Tomorrow”, Nordicom Review 30. 1. pp 149-165. Link
Humphreys, Peter (2012), "A Political Scientist's Contribution to the Comparative Study of Media System in Europe: A Response to Hallin and Mancini", in Just, Natascha and Manuel Puppis (ads.) Trends in Communication Policy Research: New Theories, Methods and Subjects, Intellect: Bristol/Chicago. (Copy will be provided)
Krumsvik, Arne H. (2013), "Freedom of Expression and the Professionalization of Journalism", in Carlsson, Ulla (ed.) Freedom of Expression Revisited: Citizenship and Journalism in the Digital Era, Nordicom, Gothenburg. (Copy will be provided.)
Nord, Lars (2008), ”Comparing Nordic Media Systems: North between West and East?”, in Central European Journal of Communication 1 (2008). Pages. 95-110. Link
Ohlsson, Jonas (2015), The Nordic Media Market 2015", Nordicom, University of Gothenburg. Link
Picard, Robert (2007), ”Subsidies for Newspapers: Can the Nordic Model Remain Viable?”, in Hans Bohrmann / Elisabeth Klaus / Marcel Machill (Ed.) Media Industry, Journalism Culture and Communication Policies in Europe pp. 236-245. Link
Rees, Ellen (2006), ”Norwave: Norwegian Cinema 1997 - 2006", in Scandinavian – Canadian Studies, vol 19. Link
Solum, Ove (forthcoming), "Norwegian Cinema in Transition". (Copy will be provided.)
Statistics
Reading list for the field trip to Copenhagen (pdfs are uploaded in Fronter)
Agger, Gunhild (2011), "Emotion, gender and genre: Investigating The Killing", in Northern Lights, Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 111-125. 14 pages.
Kristensen, Nete N?rgaard (2010), "The historical transformation of cultural journalism", in Northern Lights, vol 8, pp. 69–92. 23 pages.
Lund, Anker Brink and Lowe (2013), "Current Challenges to Public Service Broadcasting in the Nordic Countries", in Carlsson, Ulla (ed.), Public Service Media from a Nordic Horizon, Nordicom, Gothenburg. 20 pages.
Redvall, Eva Novrup (2013), "‘Dogmas’ for television drama: The ideas of ‘one vision’, ‘double storytelling’, ‘crossover’ and ‘producer’s choice’ in drama series from the Danish public service broadcaster DR", in Journal of Popular Television, vol 1, pp. 227–234. 7 pages.
Redvall, Eva Novrup (2013), "Introduction" in Redvall, E.N. Writing and Producing Television Drama in Denmark: From The Kingdom to The Killing, Palgrave Macmillan. pp 1-19. 19 pages.
Redvall, Eva Novrup (2013), "Television Writing and the Screen Idea System" in Redvall, E.N. Writing and Producing Television Drama in Denmark: From The Kingdom to The Killing, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 20-36. 16 pages.
Scannell, Paddy (1989), "Public service broadcasting and modern public life", in Media Culture Society, vol. 11 no. 2 135-166. 31 pages.
Sundholm, John et al (2012), "Introduction", in Sundholm et al Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema, Scarecrow Press. 39 pages.
Tybjerg, Casper (2001), Danish Cinema 1930-2000. (Published as: ”Cinema danese, 1930-2000.” In: Storia del cinema mondiale. Vol. 3: Europa: Le cinematographie nazionali, red. Gian Piero Brunetta, tomus 1, pp. 885-932. Torino: Einaudi, 2001.) 47 pages.
?rsten, Mark (2013), "The emergence of an Increasingly Competitive News Regime in Denmark", in Kuhn, Raymond and Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis (eds.) Political Journalism in Transition: Western Europe in a Comparative Perspective, I.B. Tauris, London/New York, pp 93-110. 17 pages.