Medieteorins klassiker, 7.5 högskolepoäng

• Adorno, Theodor & Horkheimer, Max (1944/1977). “Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception”. In Curran, James et al. Mass Communication and Society. London: Edward Arnold. (50 p.)
• Barthes, Roland (1977). “The Photographic Message”, In Image Music Text. London: Fontana. (17 p.)
• Baudrillard, Jean (1985). “The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in The Media”, Text #6 in Thornham, Sue, Bassett, Caroline & Marris, Paul (eds.) (2009). Media Studies: A Reader (3rd ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (11 p.)
• Bengtsson, Stina, Ericson, Staffan & Fredrik Stiernstedt (2024). Classics in Media Theory. London & New York: Routledge. (ca 170 p ‑ chapters 1,2,3,4,8,10,11,12,14,17,19,24, 25)
• Benjamin, Walter (1936/1977). “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. In Curran, James et al. Mass Communication and Society. London: Edward Arnold. (26 p.)
• Bourdieu, Pierre (1984). “Distinction & The Aristocracy of Culture”, 11 p. (Excerpts: pp. 1‑7, 28‑32) from Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), reprinted in Storey, John (ed.) (2006). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
• Bourdieu, Pierre (1993). “Some Properties of the Field”, 6 p. Text #10 in Thornham, Sue, Bassett, Caroline & Marris, Paul (eds.) (2009). Media Studies: A Reader (3rd ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Dayan, Daniel & Elihu Katz (1992). Media Events. The Live Broadcasting of History, Harvard University Press. (15 p)
• Fuchs, Christian & Qiu, Jack Linchuan (2018). “Ferments in the Field: Introductory Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Communication Studies”. Journal of Communication, 68(2), pp. 219‑232. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqy008.
• Hall, Stuart (1973). “Encoding/Decoding”. In Hall, Stuart et al. (eds.) Culture, Media, Language. London: Hutchinson. (14 p.)
• Handelman, Don (2003). “Towards the Virtual Encounter: Horton’s and Wohl’s ‘Mass Communication and Para‑Social Interaction’”. In Katz, Elihu, Peters, John Durham, Liebes, Tamar & Orloff (eds.) (2003). Canonical Texts in Media Research. Oxford & Cambridge: Blackwell & Polity, pp. 137‑151.
• Herzog, Herta (1941). “On Borrowed Experience”. Studies in Philosophy and Social Science, 11(1). (30 p.)
• Horton, Donald & Wohl, Richard (1956). “Mass Communication and Para‑Social Interaction”. Psychiatry, 19(3). (18 p.)
• Kittler, Friedrich (1987). “Gramophone, Film, Typewriter”. October, 41, pp. 101‑118.
• Lazarsfeld, Paul & Merton, Robert (1948). “Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action”,In Bryson, Lyman (ed.). The Communication of Ideas, and Rosenberg, Bernard & White, David M. (eds.) (1957). Mass Culture. (16 p.)
• McLuhan, Marshall (1964). Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (ca. 100 p.)
• Mulvey, Laura (1975). “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, In Mulvey, Laura (1989). Visual and Other Pleasures. London: Macmillan. (ca. 22 p.)
• Williams, Raymond (1974/2003). Television: Technology and Cultural Form, Chapters 1‑2. London & New York: Routledge, 9‑43.

In total ca. 600 p.

Reference Literature

• One article from the special issue Ferments in the Field, Journal of Communication, 68(2), April 1, 2018.
• Katz, Elihu., Peters, John Durham., Liebes, Tamar & Orloff (eds.) (2003). Canonical Texts in Media Research. Oxford & Cambridge: Blackwell & Polity.