Medier och kulturindustri, 7.5 högskolepoäng

Books

Hesmondhalgh, David. (2018). The Cultural Industries, 4th edition, London: Sage. [~400 p]

[subtotal, obligatory literature: 400 p]

Special focus texts (each student will be assigned to read two out of these four books):

Banks, Mark. (2007). The Politics of Cultural Work. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [228 p]

Flew, Terry. (2012). The Creative Industries: Culture and Policy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [248 p]

Jin, Dal Yong. (2015). Digital Platforms, Imperialism and Political Culture. London & New York, NY: Routledge. [194 p]

Lobato, Ramon & Julian Thomas. (2015). The Informal Media Economy. Cambridge: Polity. [224 p]

[subtotal, specialization literature: 440 p / student]

Obligatory chapters and articles

Andrejevic, Mark. (2010). “Surveillance and Alienation in the Online Economy”. Surveillance & Society, 8(3): 278-287. [9 p]

Berg, Su-Hyun & Robert Hassink. (2014). "Creative Industries from an Evolutionary Perspective: A Critical Literature Review". Geography Compass, 8(9): 653-664. [11 p]

Bermejo, Fernando. (2009). “Audience manufacture in historical perspective: from broadcasting to Google”. New Media & Society, 11(1-2): 133-154. [21 p]

Cohen, Julie E. (2016). "The Surveillance-Innovation Complex: The Irony of the Participatory Turn". In: Barney, Darin; Gabriella Coleman; Christine Ross; Jonathan Sterne; Tamar Tembeck (eds.) The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age. Minneapolis, MA & London: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 207-226. [19 p]

Deuze, Mark. (2016). "Managing Media Workers". In: Ferrell Lowe, Gregory & Charles Brown (eds.) Managing Media Firms and Industries. Berlin: Springer, pp. 329-341. [12 p]

Dwyer, Paul. (2016). "Managing Creativity in Media Organisations". In: Ferrell Lowe, Gregory & Charles Brown (eds.) Managing Media Firms and Industries. Berlin: Springer, pp. 343-365. [22 p]

Gandy, Oscar H. (2011). "The Political Economy of Personal Information". In: Wasko, Janet; Graham Murdock; Helena Sousa (eds.) The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 436-457. [21 p]

Guihot, Michael and McNaught, Hannah (2021). “Platform Power, Technology, and Law: Consumer Powerlessness in Information Capitalism” (April 22). Law, Innovation and Technology (forthcoming, 2022). https://ssrn.com/abstract=3831655 [33 p]

Huws, Ursula (2010). "Expression and expropriation: The dialectics of autonomy and control in creative labour". Ephemera, 10(3/4): 504-521 http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/expression-and-expropriation-dialectics-autonomy-and-control-creative-labour [17 p]

Jakobsson, Peter & Fredrik Stiernstedt. (2010). "Pirates of Silicon Valley: State of Exception and Dispossession in Web 2.0". First Monday, 15(7). http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2799/2577 [15 p]

Jarrett, Kylie. (2016). “Queering alienation in digital media”. First Monday, 21(10). http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6942/5626 [12 p]

Murdock, Graham. (2011). "Political economies as moral economies: commodities, gifts and public goods". In: Wasko, Janet; Graham Murdock; Helena Sousa (eds.) The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 13-40. [27 p]

Napoli, Philip M. (2016). "The Audience as Product, Consumer, and Producer in the Contemporary Media Marketplace". In: Ferrell Lowe, Gregory & Charles Brown (eds.) Managing Media Firms and Industries. Berlin: Springer, pp. 261-275. [14 p]

Smyrnaios, Nikos (2018). The Internet Oligopoly: The Corporate Takeover of Our Digital World. Bingley: Emerald. Excerpt, pp. xi–xv; 1–10. [15 p]

[subtotal: 248 p]