Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Lecture 9 - Fri Sept 27 (10-12) - Westlund

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Time & Place: Friday September 27 at 10-12 in lecture hall M2.

Guest lecturer: Oscar Westlund, Associate professor at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication at the University of Gothenburg and the IT University of Copenhagen.

Title: Mobile news consumption gaining traction

TalkDuring the past decade, the development of mobile "phones" has increasingly converged with computing. In recent years there has been a rapid diffusion of touchscreen-enabled mobile devices such as Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy, equipped with flat-rate subscriptions for mobile internet and facilitating access to mobile ecosystems with hundreds of thousands of applications. People no longer only engage in mobile communication through voice and texting, but also use social media, e-mail etc. and have also started using their mobile for accessing information such as news. This lecture focuses on presenting various studies on cross-media and mobile news consumption, drawing primarily upon the postal-based surveys conducted annually by the SOM-institute, nationally representative to the country of Sweden.

About: Oscar Westlund serves on the editorial boards of the journals Digital Journalism, the Journal of Media Innovations and Mobile Media & Communication. He has researched the production and consumption of mobile news since 2005, and has recently published a book, many book chapters and also several articles in international journals on the subject.

Literature
- Grueskin, Seave & Graves (2011), "The story so far: What we know about the business of digital journalism". Read chapter 4 "The new new media: Mobile, video and other emerging platforms"Available online.
- Schudson, (2011), "The sociology of news". Please read chapter 9, "The audience for news", before the lecture.
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