MEVIT4610 - Spring 2015

Required reading

Journal articles are available on the web when accessed from a computer on the University of Oslo network. To be able to find a research journal article on the Web is part of the skills necessary to pass this course.

In addition to the reading list below, each student will select 200-400 pages of literature. The selected reading must be approved by the subject teacher before 1 April.

Note: the reading list is under review, and not finished.

Baym, Nancy K. (2010), Personal connections in the digital age, (Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press). 155 pages.

Online articles:

Boyd, D. and Ellison, N. (2007), Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship, New Media and Society 13 (1), 210-230. doi: DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x

Bucher, Taina (2012), ‘Want to be on the top? Algorithmic power and the threat of invisibility on Facebook’, New Media & Society, 14 (7), 1164-80

Fish, Adam, et al. (2011), ‘Birds of the Internet’, Journal of Cultural Economy, 4 (2), 157-87.

Larsson, A. O. (2014). Pandering, protesting, engaging. Norwegian party leaders on Facebook during the 2013 ‘Short campaign'. Information, Communication & Society, 1-15. doi: 10.1080/1369118x.2014.967269

Larsson, A. O., & Moe, H. (2014). Triumph of the Underdogs? Comparing Twitter Use by Political Actors During Two Norwegian Election Campaigns. SAGE Open, 4(4). doi: 10.1177/2158244014559015

Luders, M. “Conceptualizing Personal Media.” New Media & Society 10.5 (2008): 683-702.

Staksrud, Elisabeth, Kjartan ?lafsson, and Sonia Livingstone (2013), ‘Does the use of social networking sites increase children’s risk of harm?’, Computers in Human Behavior, 29 (1), 40-50.

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