Journalistic Reorientations

The project “Journalistic reorientations. The online challenge to journalistic ontology” (Department of Information Science and Media Studies, university of Bergen) in cooperation with Nordic Research Network in Journalism Studies.

Master Class for PhD- Students and Conference in Bergen, Norway.

Journalistic Reorientations

2-4 November 2011 - Location: University of Bergen

Master Class:

Venue: 9th floor, Building for the social sciences (Lauritz Meltzers hus), Fosswinckelsgt. 6

Wednesday 2 November

12:00 – 13:00       Lunch for PhD-students and lecturers

13:00 – 13:15       Welcome

13:15 – 14:15      Master Class keynote lecture, Rodney Benson, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU Steinhardt - Forms of Journalism: How Media Ownership Matters
 
14:15 – 14:45       Coffee break

14:45 – 17.15       Paper presentations by PhD-students - Respondents: Rodney Benson and senior researchers from the network.

19:00                   Dinner for PhD-students and lecturers

Thursday 3 November

09:00 – 10:00       Anna-Maria Jönsson, Lecturer, Dept. of Culture and Communication, Södertörn University.
User-generated content and the news: perspectives, methods and results

10:00 – 12:00       Paper presentations by PhD-students. Respondents: Senior researchers from the network.

12:00 – 13:00       Light lunch and end of Master Class

Conference Programme:

Thursday 3 November

Venue: “The Egg”-auditorium, Student Centre, Parkveien

12:00 – 13:00        Light lunch and check-in

13:00 – 13:20        Welcome (and presentation of project), Martin Eide.
13:20 – 13:30        The Nordic Network  in journalism studies, Sigurd Allern.

13:30 – 14:30        Keynote Speech 1: Dan Hallin, Professor, Dept. of Communication, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Postmodernism, Neoliberalism and Convergence:  The Transformation of Journalism as a Social Insitution.

14:30 – 15:30        Keynote Speech 2: Natalie Fenton, Professor, Dept. of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths University of London.
New ways of telling truths or tales? Journalism and democracy in the digital age.

15:30 – 16:00        Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00        Nina Kvalheim, Research Fellow, University of Bergen
Journalistic multimediality and public deliberation.
 
19:00                    Dinner

Friday 4 November
Venue: Auditorium 4, Law Building, Dragefjellet

09:00 – 09:30        Check-in and coffee

09:30 – 10:30        Helle Sjøvaag, Research Fellow, University of Bergen
Journalistic Ideology: Professional Strategy, Institutional Authority and Boundary Maintenance in the Digital News Market.

10:30 – 11:30        Mats Ekström, Professor, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University
Journalism and the expansion of public participation: The case of election campaign interviews.

11:30 – 12:00        Summary and evaluation

For full program, press here. You are welcome to join the academic part of the conference. Registration for lunch and dinner is closed.