Media resistance, invasive media by Trine Syvertsen
ALSO AS AUDIO BOOK: https://www.estories.com/audiobook/359981/Trine-Syvertsen/Digital-Detox /// A... more ALSO AS AUDIO BOOK: https://www.estories.com/audiobook/359981/Trine-Syvertsen/Digital-Detox /// ABSTRACT: Social media and smartphones are criticised for being addictive, destroying personal relationships, undermining productivity, and invading privacy. In this book, Trine Syvertsen explores the phenomenon of digital detox: users taking a break from digital media or adopting measures to limit smartphone and social media use. Based on studies, documents, media texts and interviews with media users, Syvertsen discusses how media industries intensify the quest for attention, how companies and governments team up to get everybody online, and how the main responsibility for managing online risks and problems are placed on the users' shoulders. She provides a rich account of how users reduce their online engagement through time-limitations, restrictions on smartphone use, productivity apps, and use of analogue media. Syvertsen shows how digital detoxing has much in common with other forms of self-help such as mindfulness, decluttering and simple living and places digital detox within a culture of self-optimisation. But digital detox is also about sustaining face-to-face conversations, better work-life-balance, a deeper connection with nature and more meaningful interpersonal relationships. With a wealth of examples, analyses and stories, Digital Detox is a valuable guide to why digital detox and disconnection has become a topic, how it is practised, what it says about the state of media industries and how people express resistance in the 21st century.
Convergence, 2019
A fascination for the authentic is pervasive in contemporary culture. This article discusses text... more A fascination for the authentic is pervasive in contemporary culture. This article discusses texts recommending digital detox and how these accentuate dilemmas of what it means to be authentically human in the age of constant connectivity. Digital detox can be defined as a periodic disconnection from social or online media, or strategies to reduce digital media involvement. Digital detox stands in a long tradition of media resistance and resistance to new communication technologies, and non-use of media, but advocates balance and awareness more than permanent disconnection. Drawing on the analysis of 20 texts promoting digital detox: self-help literature, memoirs and corporate websites, the article discusses how problems with digital media are defined and recommended strategies to handle them. The analysis is structured around three dominant themes emerging in the material: descriptions of temporal overload and 24/7 connectivity, experiences of spatial intrusion and loss of contact with ‘real life’ and descriptions of damage to body and mind. A second research topic concerns how arguments for digital detox can be understood within a wider cultural and political context. Here, we argue that digital detox texts illuminate the rise of a self-regulation society, where individuals are expected to take personal responsibility for balancing risks and pressures, as well as representing a form of commodification of authenticity and nostalgia.
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The media have always been disliked, despised and resisted. Protests have been grounded in claims that the media destroy culture, morality, enlightenment, democracy, community and health. The book explores media resistance as an integrated part of culture, instead of seeing it as incidents of moral or media panic.
Drawing on political and organizational sources, personal testimonies, fiction and non-fiction bestsellers as well as dystopian films, the book shows how the media are placed in a villainous and disruptive role
The book takes a historical perspective, looking at early resistance to books, print, cinema, radio and comics in the 1800s and 1900s; resistance to television in the late 1900s; and resistance to online and social media from around 2000
Media History, 2013
New media technologies are often met with political and public ambivalence, as they are perceived... more New media technologies are often met with political and public ambivalence, as they are perceived to threaten established activities, values and institutions, as well as bring progress and improve political, cultural and social life. Taking the Norwegian history of television as an empirical case study, this article relates to an international research agenda focusing on the cultural political debates in the early phases of broadcast media. The article is structured according to five key conjunctures where significant new media and technologies were introduced with corresponding political debates: the introduction of television (1940s–1950s), of colour television (1960s–1970s), of satellite, cable and commercial television (1980s), of digital distribution (1990s–2000s) and the expansion of television to new platforms (2000s). The article addresses the key arguments and dividing lines in these political debates, as well as the change in the perception of television when the medium is no longer new, but has become an integrated part of people's everyday life.
The Media Welfare State by Trine Syvertsen
Nordic Journal of Media Studies, 2019
Digitization, new entrants and the disruption of business models prompt concern about the media’s... more Digitization, new entrants and the disruption of business models prompt concern about the media’s societal mission. The article investigates how media managers conceptualize societal responsibility in an era of turmoil. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews with executive managers of private media companies in Norway and Flanders, the study reveals important differences in the definition of the public interest. While Flemish media managers emphasize brand value, Norwegian managers emphasize societal values, such as educating the public. When comparing managers of traditional and newer companies, a third, more straightforward market logic is also elicited, illuminating the vulnerability of traditional values.
European Journal of Communication, 2019
Digital platforms such as Google, Facebook and Netflix have caused a watershed moment not only fo... more Digital platforms such as Google, Facebook and Netflix have caused a watershed moment not only for markets and businesses but also for media policy. Concerns about the US-based digital platforms’ impact on national media markets have grown among European media businesses as well as policy makers. Media policy research argues that small media markets are particularly vulnerable to global players and foreign influence, but that market size must be understood also in the context of political traditions. This article investigates how digital platforms influence media policy for private media businesses in the small media systems of Norway and Flanders. Drawing on 20 qualitative interviews with CEOs and top-level media managers in these two small media markets, we ask what private media businesses expect from policy makers in light of the intensified competition from digital platforms, what experience they have with cooperating with policy makers and what explains the differences between Norway and Flanders. A key finding is that the managers in both markets want policy makers to regulate digital platforms to secure level playing field, and that the Norwegian respondents had more positive experiences with co-regulation and expressed more trust in policy makers and policy instruments, compared to the Flemish. Despite the global players and the need for transnational solutions, regional variations in policy making still matters, and might inform the discussion about how to regulate the digital platforms.
Journal of media business studies, 2017
Most research on the changes affecting commercial media focuses on big markets and, except in som... more Most research on the changes affecting commercial media focuses on big markets and, except in some instances, fails to incorporate media managers’ views. By investigating perceptions of private media managers in two small markets, this article fills that void. It analyses how mainly legacy media managers view the impact of market and societal dynamics such as digitisation, internationalisation, and changing business models, and discusses the strategies and priorities they envisage to handle current challenges. Data collection rests on 20 expert interviews with high-level management in Flanders and Norway. The analysis builds on the main challenges identified in the literature, with a focus on the robustness versus fragility of small media markets.
The main finding is that respondents do not go along with a doom scenario of their market, recognising though that the extent to which their companies and media ecosystems used to be shielded away from international trends and competition is over. Connecting with audiences is considered to be of pivotal importance in developing new business models.
The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era comprehensively addresses the central dy... more The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era comprehensively addresses the central dynamics of the digitalization of the media industry in the Nordic countries—Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland—and the ways media organizations there are transforming to address the new digital environment.
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Taking a comparative approach, the authors provide an overview of media institutions, content, use, and policy throughout the region, focusing on the impact of information and communication technology/internet and digitalization on the Nordic media sector. Illustrating the shifting media landscape the authors draw on a wide range of cases, including developments in the press, television, the public service media institutions, and telecommunication.
Authors: Trine Syvertsen, Gunn Enli, Ole Mjøs, Hallvard Moe
Papers by Trine Syvertsen
Nordic Journal of Media Studies
Digitization, new entrants and the disruption of business models prompt concern about the media’s... more Digitization, new entrants and the disruption of business models prompt concern about the media’s societal mission. The article investigates how media managers conceptualize societal responsibility in an era of turmoil. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews with executive managers of private media companies in Norway and Flanders, the study reveals important differences in the definition of the public interest. While Flemish media managers emphasize brand value, Norwegian managers emphasize societal values, such as educating the public. When comparing managers of traditional and newer companies, a third, more straightforward market logic is also elicited, illuminating the vulnerability of traditional values.
This is a chapter in the book 'A Future for Public Service Television', edited by Des Freedman an... more This is a chapter in the book 'A Future for Public Service Television', edited by Des Freedman and Vana Goblot (Goldsmith's Press 2018).
Television is on the verge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change has brought about financial uncertainty as well as new creative possibilities for producers, distributors and viewers. This volume examines not only the unexpected resilience of TV as cultural pastime and aesthetic practice but also the prospects for public service television in a digital, multichannel ecology.
https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/a-future-for-public-service-television/
TV 2 feirer 25-årsjubileum i 2017. TV 2 var nyskapende og annerledes – som merkevare, programprod... more TV 2 feirer 25-årsjubileum i 2017. TV 2 var nyskapende og annerledes – som merkevare, programprodusent og samfunnsaktør – men har etter 25 år blitt en del av det etablerte Norge. Artikkelen diskuterer grunntrekk i TV 2s historie og profil basert på intervjuer med de fem sjefredaktørene – fem menn som hver på sin måte har preget norsk offentlighet og fjernsynskultur.
This article discusses the impact of convergence and digital intermediaries for television as a m... more This article discusses the impact of convergence and digital intermediaries for television as a medium, industry and political and cultural institution. There is currently widespread debate about the future of television and the impact of technological and market changes. Our argument is that the answer to what is happening to television cannot be adequately addressed on a general level; local and contextual factors are still important, and so is the position and strategic response of existing television institutions in each national context. Based on analyses of political documents, statistics, audience research and media coverage, as well as secondary literature, the article explores the current situation for Norwegian television and point to four contexts that each plays a part in constraining and enabling existing television operators: the European context, the public service context, the welfare state context and the media ecosystem context.
There is an emerging range of self-help guides advising users on how to minimise their interactio... more There is an emerging range of self-help guides advising users on how to minimise their interaction with media. The aim is to create a lifestyle and identity that is less media-centred and more grounded in “real life”. This article discusses media self-help in the light of theories of media domestication, highlighting processes where the aim is to reduce the
importance of, rather than to incorporate, media and communication technology into users’ lives. Based on a sample of 30 guides from the self-help site Wikihow dealing with how to handle television, games and social media respectively, the article discusses media self-help
strategies in relation to key concepts of domestication theory: appropriation, objectification, incorporation and conversion. In conclusion, the article argues that strategies of withdrawal
and resistance should receive more attention in media studies, and point to the concept of reverse domestication as one way of highlighting such strategies.
Media History, 2013
New media technologies are often met with political and public ambivalence, as they are perceived... more New media technologies are often met with political and public ambivalence, as they are perceived to threaten established activities, values and institutions, as well as bring progress and improve political, cultural and social life. Taking the Norwegian history of television as an empirical case study, this article relates to an international research agenda focusing on the cultural political debates in the early phases of broadcast media. The article is structured according to five key conjunctures where significant new media and technologies were introduced with corresponding political debates: the introduction of television (1940s–1950s), of colour television (1960s–1970s), of satellite, cable and commercial television (1980s), of digital distribution (1990s–2000s) and the expansion of television to new platforms (2000s). The article addresses the key arguments and dividing lines in these political debates, as well as the change in the perception of television when the medium is no longer new, but has become an integrated part of people's everyday life.
Nordicom Review, 31(2): 3- 16., 2010
When planning for the future, media managers must balance realism with the need to foresee unexpe... more When planning for the future, media managers must balance realism with the need to foresee unexpected changes. This article investigates images of the future in the Norwegian media industry in the early years of the 21st century and identifies five key trends that media managers envisioned: personalized content, user-generated content, rich media, cross-platform media, and mobility. We argue that increased reflection on such visions and
how they are formed may put managers (and researchers) in a better position to meet the future. We therefore ask to what degree they were influenced by actual developments at
the time, or anchored in more classical imagery of the future. The analysis illustrates how new technologies become focal points for articulating old dreams about the future. At the latest turn of the century, the mobile phone served as such a focal technology.
Handbook of Journalism Studies, 2009
The chapter provides an overview and a critical discussion of research on public service broadcas... more The chapter provides an overview and a critical discussion of research on public service broadcasting. We identify and discuss four strands of research.
First, policy studies: analyses of the changing conditions for public service broadcasting in the wake of increased competition, new technologies, privatization and globalization. Second, the related strand of institutional studies: studies of how traditional public service companies have responded and adapted to changing circumstances. Third, a strand focusing more explicitly on the role of public service in social and democratic life of modern
nation-states. Fourth, and more tentatively, an emerging strand of postmodern approaches, critical of the modernist stance of the public service and democracy studies, and more explicitly inspired by the transformative potentials of new communication technologies.
The chapter in turn discusses these four strands of research, concentrating on the merits and limitations of each one. Throughout, we draw particularly on literature from Scandinavia, the UK and German-speaking countries, but also include key works from other countries with distinct public service broadcasting traditions. The discussion leads us to point to remaining tensions, and suggest directions for further research.
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Norsk Medietidsskrift 15(3): 211-235., 2008
Research on public service broadcasting (PSB) seem to start from the premise that traditional br... more Research on public service broadcasting (PSB) seem to start from the premise that traditional broadcasting institutions are in a state of crisis. In this article, I argue that the public broadcasters are doing better than most observers assume, and point to several areas where, in recent years, the broadcasters have designed fairly successful strategies.
"The article discusses the background and origins of research on media institutions as afield, an... more "The article discusses the background and origins of research on media institutions as afield, and especially assesses the development and status of Norwegian research on broadcasting institutions. It is demonstrated how the field has developed, both quantitatively and qualitatively, through three key phases: the era of broadcasting monopolies; the“new media situation” in the 1980s and 1990s; and the era of convergence; globalization andcommercialization from the late 1990s. A key purpose is to discuss the theoretical perspectives and implicit and explicit assumptions upon which the research is based. Further, thearticle points to shortcomings and gaps in our knowledge of how media institutions evolve and operate. In closing, it is suggested how the field may maintain its relevance in an erawhere the very concept of a “broadcasting institution” is becoming more blurred.
Key Words: media institutions, broadcasting, Norway, research overview"
Since the mid-‐1990s, media institutions have been experimenting with new forms of audience part... more Since the mid-‐1990s, media institutions have been experimenting with new forms of audience participation. Based on interviews with Norwegian media leaders, this article provides insight into how media executives think strategically about audience input, as well as the seven most important reasons why they are focusing on audience participation. The article asks what a focus upon audience participation means for the role of media in society.
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Media resistance, invasive media by Trine Syvertsen
The media have always been disliked, despised and resisted. Protests have been grounded in claims that the media destroy culture, morality, enlightenment, democracy, community and health. The book explores media resistance as an integrated part of culture, instead of seeing it as incidents of moral or media panic.
Drawing on political and organizational sources, personal testimonies, fiction and non-fiction bestsellers as well as dystopian films, the book shows how the media are placed in a villainous and disruptive role
The book takes a historical perspective, looking at early resistance to books, print, cinema, radio and comics in the 1800s and 1900s; resistance to television in the late 1900s; and resistance to online and social media from around 2000
The Media Welfare State by Trine Syvertsen
The main finding is that respondents do not go along with a doom scenario of their market, recognising though that the extent to which their companies and media ecosystems used to be shielded away from international trends and competition is over. Connecting with audiences is considered to be of pivotal importance in developing new business models.
READ FREE ON THE WEB: dx.doi.org/10.3998/nmw.12367206.0001.001
Taking a comparative approach, the authors provide an overview of media institutions, content, use, and policy throughout the region, focusing on the impact of information and communication technology/internet and digitalization on the Nordic media sector. Illustrating the shifting media landscape the authors draw on a wide range of cases, including developments in the press, television, the public service media institutions, and telecommunication.
Authors: Trine Syvertsen, Gunn Enli, Ole Mjøs, Hallvard Moe
Papers by Trine Syvertsen
Television is on the verge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change has brought about financial uncertainty as well as new creative possibilities for producers, distributors and viewers. This volume examines not only the unexpected resilience of TV as cultural pastime and aesthetic practice but also the prospects for public service television in a digital, multichannel ecology.
https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/a-future-for-public-service-television/
importance of, rather than to incorporate, media and communication technology into users’ lives. Based on a sample of 30 guides from the self-help site Wikihow dealing with how to handle television, games and social media respectively, the article discusses media self-help
strategies in relation to key concepts of domestication theory: appropriation, objectification, incorporation and conversion. In conclusion, the article argues that strategies of withdrawal
and resistance should receive more attention in media studies, and point to the concept of reverse domestication as one way of highlighting such strategies.
how they are formed may put managers (and researchers) in a better position to meet the future. We therefore ask to what degree they were influenced by actual developments at
the time, or anchored in more classical imagery of the future. The analysis illustrates how new technologies become focal points for articulating old dreams about the future. At the latest turn of the century, the mobile phone served as such a focal technology.
First, policy studies: analyses of the changing conditions for public service broadcasting in the wake of increased competition, new technologies, privatization and globalization. Second, the related strand of institutional studies: studies of how traditional public service companies have responded and adapted to changing circumstances. Third, a strand focusing more explicitly on the role of public service in social and democratic life of modern
nation-states. Fourth, and more tentatively, an emerging strand of postmodern approaches, critical of the modernist stance of the public service and democracy studies, and more explicitly inspired by the transformative potentials of new communication technologies.
The chapter in turn discusses these four strands of research, concentrating on the merits and limitations of each one. Throughout, we draw particularly on literature from Scandinavia, the UK and German-speaking countries, but also include key works from other countries with distinct public service broadcasting traditions. The discussion leads us to point to remaining tensions, and suggest directions for further research.
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Key Words: media institutions, broadcasting, Norway, research overview"
The media have always been disliked, despised and resisted. Protests have been grounded in claims that the media destroy culture, morality, enlightenment, democracy, community and health. The book explores media resistance as an integrated part of culture, instead of seeing it as incidents of moral or media panic.
Drawing on political and organizational sources, personal testimonies, fiction and non-fiction bestsellers as well as dystopian films, the book shows how the media are placed in a villainous and disruptive role
The book takes a historical perspective, looking at early resistance to books, print, cinema, radio and comics in the 1800s and 1900s; resistance to television in the late 1900s; and resistance to online and social media from around 2000
The main finding is that respondents do not go along with a doom scenario of their market, recognising though that the extent to which their companies and media ecosystems used to be shielded away from international trends and competition is over. Connecting with audiences is considered to be of pivotal importance in developing new business models.
READ FREE ON THE WEB: dx.doi.org/10.3998/nmw.12367206.0001.001
Taking a comparative approach, the authors provide an overview of media institutions, content, use, and policy throughout the region, focusing on the impact of information and communication technology/internet and digitalization on the Nordic media sector. Illustrating the shifting media landscape the authors draw on a wide range of cases, including developments in the press, television, the public service media institutions, and telecommunication.
Authors: Trine Syvertsen, Gunn Enli, Ole Mjøs, Hallvard Moe
Television is on the verge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change has brought about financial uncertainty as well as new creative possibilities for producers, distributors and viewers. This volume examines not only the unexpected resilience of TV as cultural pastime and aesthetic practice but also the prospects for public service television in a digital, multichannel ecology.
https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/a-future-for-public-service-television/
importance of, rather than to incorporate, media and communication technology into users’ lives. Based on a sample of 30 guides from the self-help site Wikihow dealing with how to handle television, games and social media respectively, the article discusses media self-help
strategies in relation to key concepts of domestication theory: appropriation, objectification, incorporation and conversion. In conclusion, the article argues that strategies of withdrawal
and resistance should receive more attention in media studies, and point to the concept of reverse domestication as one way of highlighting such strategies.
how they are formed may put managers (and researchers) in a better position to meet the future. We therefore ask to what degree they were influenced by actual developments at
the time, or anchored in more classical imagery of the future. The analysis illustrates how new technologies become focal points for articulating old dreams about the future. At the latest turn of the century, the mobile phone served as such a focal technology.
First, policy studies: analyses of the changing conditions for public service broadcasting in the wake of increased competition, new technologies, privatization and globalization. Second, the related strand of institutional studies: studies of how traditional public service companies have responded and adapted to changing circumstances. Third, a strand focusing more explicitly on the role of public service in social and democratic life of modern
nation-states. Fourth, and more tentatively, an emerging strand of postmodern approaches, critical of the modernist stance of the public service and democracy studies, and more explicitly inspired by the transformative potentials of new communication technologies.
The chapter in turn discusses these four strands of research, concentrating on the merits and limitations of each one. Throughout, we draw particularly on literature from Scandinavia, the UK and German-speaking countries, but also include key works from other countries with distinct public service broadcasting traditions. The discussion leads us to point to remaining tensions, and suggest directions for further research.
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Key Words: media institutions, broadcasting, Norway, research overview"
Keywords: public service broadcasting television policy European Union media policy
Keywords: blind date, entertainment, game shows, Norwegian television, participatory communication, television formats, TVNorge
Denne boka belyser sentrale tendenser i tv-mediets utvikling, med særlig vekt på det siste tiåret. Selv om tv-mediet til alle tider har vært utsatt for endring, har utviklingstrekk som fragmentering, konvergens, globalisering og regionalisering de siste årene gitt tv-mediet helt bestemte utfordringer. Disse utfordringene søkes det mange og til dels nye svar på, og på ulike nivåer: politiske rammebetingelser, import av programformater, nye strategier for å skape allianser med publikum osv.
Gjennom en blanding av komparative analyser og konkrete case-studier, diskuterer denne boka tv-mediets kulturelle og samfunnsmessige betydning i den digitale tidsalder, med stadige tilbakeblikk på fjernsynshistorien. Boka tar sikte på å beskrive sentrale aktører og tendenser i Norge, men også internasjonalt.
Boka består av totalt 15 kapitler fordelt på tre hoveddeler: Samfunn og økonomi; Produksjon og program og Publikum og deltakelse. Underkapitlene inneholder analyser av tv på institusjons-, markeds-, regulerings-, produksjons-, program-, og publikumsnivå. Alle delene avsluttes med korte kapitler om hvordan man studerer de ulike aspektene ved tv.
Boka er gjennomillustrert og inneholder tretten kapitler skrevet av ulike bidragsytere. Den avsluttes med intervjuer med TV2s tre sjefredaktører.
Første utgave kom ut i 2002, året da TV2 feiret sitt tiårsjubileum. Den reviderte utgaven inkluderer et nyskrevet innledningskapittel og et vedlegg med oppdaterte nøkkeltall.
Her legges ut to kapitler, et om TV2 fra 1992 til 2002 og et annet som oppdaterer utviklingen fram til 2006
Begge er publisert i 2006-utgaven
Boka inneholder en medievitenskaplig analyse av Reisesjekken . Boka baserer seg på tekstanalyser og informasjon fra over 100 personer med tilknytning til programmet, både deltakere, produsenter, sponsorer og publikum. Den ser på hva som får folk til å stå fram på TV i situasjoner som mange ville betrakte som pinlige og ydmykende, hvor mye av programmet som er ekte og hvor mye som er regissert, og hva som gjør at denne typen programmer trekker mange seere. "
The study has produced results on two levels: Firstly, it has identified a series of similar processes and alliances in the two countries in connection with the establishment and development of broadcasting systems. Secondly, it has produced detailed results regarding the so-called crisis for public broadcasting in the two countries.
The study has demonstrated that while the privileges of the BBC and the NRK have been undermined, they are still expected to fulfil many of their original obligations, obligations which in turn have become more difficult to fulfil.
These developments have presented the corporation with difficult challenges regarding both their financial bases and their social legitimacy. The corporations have both responded these challenges with a dual strategy: On the one hand they have attempted to improve their financial balances and adapt to market-standards, whereas on the other they have strengthened their commitment to some of the areas which they have seen as crucial to their identity as public broadcasters.
Bloggen finnes her: http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/personer/vit/trinesy/trines3blogg/tips-til-selvhjelp-om-mediebruken-din-blir-invader.html
These four books provide excellent insight into the enormity of the changes taking place in Scandinavian broadcasting. Taken together, these studies also give a good indication of trends in the development of Scandinavian media research. Media research is, after all, a rather young discipline in Scandinavia.The first university degrees in this subject were not established until the late 1980s. Since then, however, media research in Scandinavia has attracted a growing number of researchers and students from different backgrounds. The field is characterized to an increasing degree by multidisciplinarity, and there is also a growing interest in historical aspects of the media.
These four studies fall neatly into two categories. Two books, both from Denmark, focus on developments in television. Sepstrup presents a broad historical account of television in Denmark from the 1950s to the present, whereas Soendergaard studies the changes in content and scheduling of Danish public television throughout the first wave of competition in the 1980s. The two remaining studies, one Norwegian and one Swedish, are more concerned with the overall ideological and political framework surrounding changes in broadcasting. Skogerboe studies the transformation of Norwegian media policy throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, demonstrating how the objectives of this policy have shifted from establishing democratic communication structures to providing freedom of choice. Borg also is concerned with the normative implications of the changes in broadcasting, but his book is less empirical study and more a neoliberal critique of public service and social democratic media ideology.
Kronikk ved 50-årsjubileet for norsk TV
Mette-Marits bekjennelse kom ut av intet og ga kongehuset emosjonell kapital. "
• 20. august er det 50 år siden Kong Olav åpnet fjernsynet i Norge. Sommeren 2010 kårer Dagbladets TV-jury de beste programmene og største tv-øyeblikkene gjennom tidene.
«Big Brother» gjorde TvNorge til landets største kanal for første gang.
«Let the game begin!» Med Organic på lydsporet ble deltakerne fraktet i limousiner til bunkersen på Fornebu. 10 deltakere, 100 dager, 1 million i premie! Året var 2001, århundret var nytt, og spillet var i gang.
• 20. august er det 50 år siden Kong Olav åpnet fjernsynet i Norge. Sommeren 2010 kårer Dagbladets TV-jury de beste programmene og største tv-øyeblikkene gjennom tidene.
Både nasjonalt og internasjonalt oppfordres humanister og samfunnsvitere til økt faglig samarbeid. Med sin tverrfaglige profil og velfungerende nettverk er medieforskerne i en god posisjon til å ta imot utfordringen. Men oppfordringen til økt samarbeid utfordrer også en individuelt orientert forskningskultur. I artikkelen tar jeg et lite dypdykk ned i norske medieforskeres samarbeidsrelasjoner. Det er mye faglig samarbeid mellom medieforskere, men også store forskjeller mellom ulike medieforskningsmiljøer – og mellom mannlige og kvinnelige forskere – særlig når det gjelder hvor utbredt det er å skrive sammen. Mens noe av dette kan forklares med faglig innretning og profil, er andre forskjeller vanskeligere å forklare, og ser ut til å skyldes mer lokale forhold.
Dette vil være rapportens hovedproblemstilling. Følgende underproblem-stillinger vil også bli belyst:
Hvordan blir eksisterende reguleringsregimer og oppfatninger om medienes rolle i samfunnet utfordret av tendensene til globalisering, konvergens og kommersialisering?
På hvilken måte kan det spores endringer i mediepolitikk og medieregulering som svar på disse utfordringene? Hvilke former for regulering supplerer eller erstatter den tradisjonelle kulturpolitiske reguleringen av kringkasting?
I hvilken grad flyttes styring av kringkastingsmediene til overnasjonale organ?
I hvilken grad bidrar forandringene i mediestruktur og medieregulering til å styrke eller svekke den demokratiske innflytelsen over mediene i Norge?
that there is very little empirical data to describe how various categories of users relate to existing media regulations. Public debates about the matter tend to be dominated by certain kinds of players; politicians, public institutions, representatives of the media itself, experts and various special interest groups. Whereas these players often maintain they speak for large or small segments of the population, we rarely encounter any evidence that their views actually are those of the segments in question.
The object of this project has mainly been to produce empirical data about how the public perceives media regulation. The aim has been to fi nd out what aspects of the media, according to certain segments of the public, should primarily be subject to regulations. We have also been interested in ascertaining which elements of media regulations are known to the users and of what practical value they are for them.