Welcome to MEVIT4130 on "Mediatized ¡­

Welcome to MEVIT4130

• on "Mediatized Stories: Self-representations in digital storytelling". The first lectures take place Tuesday 24 August in room 207 at Department of Media and Communication teaching area in the Research Park. From 12:15 Professor Knut Lundby gives an introduction to the course, before Knut-Arne Futs?ter, Head of Research at TNS Gallup, presents data and analyses on Uses of Social Media in Norway.

Be aware that lectures and seminars are built together as one coherent programme. It is strongly advised to follow both. The teachers, Professors Birgit Hertzberg Kaare and Knut Lundby, will lead the seminars as well. Supervision and support for the term paper (which is the exam) will take place in the seminars.

To the first seminar 26 August all students are expected to have read the article by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Vol 13 Issue 1 (2008)(see reading list) to be downloaded from http://x-port.uio.no.

Birgit Hertzberg Kaare and Knut Lundby