Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books

Feenberg, Andrew (2012 [1999]). Questioning Technology. New York: Routledge. 226pp.

Küng, Lucy (2015). Innovators in digital news. London: I.B. Tauris. 160 pp.

Storsul, T. and Krumsvik. A. H. (eds.) (2013). Media Innovations. A Multidisiplinary Study of Change. Gothenburg: Nordicom. Free download from: http://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/media-research/news/media-innovations. Ch. 1- 7, 11, 14-16

 

Articles/chapters

Beer, D. (2017) ‘The Social Power of Algorithms‘, Information, Communication & Society 20(1):1-13

Bucher, T. (2017). The algorithmic imaginary: exploring the ordinary affects of Facebook algorithms. Information, communication & society, 20(1), 30-44

Fagerberg, J. (2006). Innovation: a guide to the literature. In Fagerberg, J. & Mowery, D.C. (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. Oxford University Press. (32 pages). 

Francis, D., & Bessant, J. (2005). Targeting innovation and implications for capability development. Technovation25(3), 171-183.

Günzel, F., & Holm, A. B. (2013). One size does not fit all—understanding the front-end and back-end of business model innovation. International Journal of Innovation Management, 17(01) (See Fronter-room)

Jenner, M. (2016). Is this TVIV? On Netflix, TVIII and binge-watching. New Media & Society, 18(2), 257-273

Vargo, S. L., & Lusch, R. F. (2004). Evolving to a new dominant logic for marketing. Journal of marketing, 68(1), 1-17

Self-selected literature

Students select literature that is relevant for their group assignment. Some suggestions for literature are listed below. Students should select no less than 250 pp. Some suggestions are listed below -- but students are free to select other literature, and should in many cases, as the literature below is not suited to all possible term papers.

Barland, J. (2013). Innovation of new revenue streams in digital media: journalism as customer relationship. NORDICOM Review: Nordic Research on Media and Communication, 34, 99-112 

Barland, J. (2015). Research Brief: Innovation for New Revenue Streams from Digital Readers: The Case of VG+. The Journal of Media Innovations, 2(1), 123-130 

Christensen, C. M. ([1997] 2013). The innovator's dilemma: when new technologies cause great firms to fail. Harvard Business Review Press. (230 pages) 

Carlson, Curtis R., and William W. Wilmot. 2006. Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want. New York: Crown Business. 

Dogruel. L. (2014). "What is so Special about Media Innovations? A Characterization of the Field". The Journal of Media Innovations, 1(1), 52-69 

Hagen, A. N., & Lüders, M. (2016). Social streaming? Navigating music as personal and social. Convergence, 1354856516673298 

Morris, J. W. (2015). Curation by code: Infomediaries and the data mining of taste. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(4-5), 446-463. 

Von Stamm, Bettina. (2008) Managing innovation, design, and creativity. 2nd edtion. Wiley. 

Von Hippel, Eric. (1988) The sources of innovation. Oxford U P. 

Westlund, O., & Lewis, S. C. (2014). Agents of media innovations: Actors, actants, and audiences. The Journal of Media Innovations, 1(2), 10-35.

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