You do not buy these texts, you read them online. Almost all this literature is available on the Web, all of it is available in the library. To be able to locate research literature is part of the requiremensts of the course.
To read most journals online, you need to use a computer connected to the University of Oslo network. Navigate to X-port from the homepage of the University library. Type the name of the journal into the search engine, and follow the links.
The starred readings need to be read before the course starts, the others are exam material.
Introduction (Monday) (83 pages)
* Biltereyst. D. (2004). Media audiences and the game of controversy. On reality TV, moral panic and controversial media stories. Journal of Media Practice, 5(1), p. 7-24.
* Drotner, K. (1999). Dangerous media. Panic discourses and dilemma’s of modernity. Paedagogica Historica, 35(3), p. 593 – 619.
* Hunt, A. (1997). Moral panic and moral language in the media. British Journal of Sociology, 48(4), p. 629 - 648
* Kline. S. (2005). Is it time to rethink media effects? P.78-99 in J. Qvortrup (Ed.), Studies in modern childhood: Society, agency, culture. London: MacMillan
Games (Tuesday) (about 80 pages)
* Anderson, C. (2004). An update on the effects of violent video games. Journal of Adolescence, 27 (1), p. 113-122.
* Clinton, Lieberman & Bayh (2005). Family Entertainment Protection Act.
Durkin, K. & Barber, B. (2002). Not so doomed: Computer game play and play and positive adolescent development. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 23(4), 373-392.
Jansz, J. (2005). The emotional appeal of violent video games for adolescent males. Communication theory, 15, 219-241.
* Jenkins, H. (2006). The war between effects and meaning: rethinking the video game violence debate. In D. Buckingham and R. Willet (Eds). Digital Generations: Children, Young People, and the New Media. London: Routledge.
Sexualization (Wednesday) (about 80 pages)
* APA (2007). Report of the taskforce on the sexualisation of girls.
Brown, J. et al. Sexy media matter: exposure to sexual content in music, movies, television and magazines predicts black and white adolescents sexual behaviour. Pediatrics (117)? p. 1018-1027.
Duits, L. and L. van Zoonen (2006) ‘Headscarves and Porno-Chic: Disciplining Girls’ Bodies in the European Multicultural Society’, European Journal of Women’s Studies, 13(2): 103–17..
Gill, R. (2007). Critical Respect: The Difficulties and Dilemmas of Agency and ‘Choice’ for Feminism: A Reply to Duits and van Zoonen. European Journal of Women's Studies, 14(1); 69-80.
Duits, L. and L. van Zoonen (2007). Who’s afraid of female agency? A rejoinder to Gill. European Journal of Women’s studies, 14(2), p. 161-170.
* Boyle, K. (2000). The pornography debates. Beyond cause and effects. Women's Studies International Forum, 23 (2), p.187-195.
Internet, (Thursday) about 80 pages
* Young, K. (2004). Internet addiction: a new clinical phenomenon and its consequences. American Behavioral Scientist, 48(4), p. 402-415.
* Morahan-Martin (2005). Internet abuse: addiction, disorder, symptom, alternative explanations? Social Science Computer Review, 23(1), p. 39-48.
Schrock, Andrew and Danah Boyd (2008). Online Threats to Youth
Marwick, A. (2008). To catch a predator? The MySpace Moral Panic First Monday, 13(6),
Wolak, J., Finkelhor, D. & Mitchell, K. (2004). Internet-initiated sex crimes against minors: Implications for preventions based on findings from a national study. Journal of Adolescent Health, 34, 11-20.
Hillier, L. & Harrison, L. (2007). Building realities less limited than their own: Young people practicing same-sex attraction on the Internet. Sexualities, 10(1), 82-100.