Lecture 7: Digital television and mobile media

Issues and readings

What does digitalization mean for the future of television? Which implications may this have for public and private television? What’s new about mobile media? How are market structures developing? This lecture will use theories from the previous lecture and discuss implications for digital television and mobile media.

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)

(see also obligatory readings from lecture on Convergence and Digital media).

Recommended readings:

Shapiro, Carl and Hal R Varian (1999) Information Rules. A Strategic guide to the Network Economy, Boston: Harvard Business School Press. (Chapter 8)

Storsul, Tanja and P?l S?rgaard (2006) US Mobile Operators and their Content Services , R&D Research Note, Telenor: R&D N 12/2006

Storsul, Tanja og Vilde Schanke Sundet (2006): "Digital Terrestrial Television in Scandinavia" i Fausto Colombo and Nicoletta Vittadini (eds) Digitising TV. Theoretical Issues and Comparative Studies across Europe. Milano: Vita e Pensiero

Tanja Storsul 2008. "Hvem vokter portene til framtidas TV?" i Rune Ottosen og Arne H Krumsvik (red) Journalistikk i en digital hverdag, Kristiansand: IJ-Forlaget

Tanja Storsul. 2008. "Bakkenettet og allmennkringkastinga" i Norsk medietidsskrift nr 1/2008

Tanja Storsul og Trine Syvertsen. 2007. "The Impact of Convergence on European Television Policy: Pressure for Change - Forces of Stability" i Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Volume 13 number 3

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