Main group 1

Lecture 1: Introduction to Theory in Journalism Studies

• Reese, Theories of Journalism, Part of: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, Oxford University PressCompulsory*
• Habermas, Jürgen, The structural transformation of the public sphere: an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1989Compulsory* (p. 1–25)
• Lindgren, Simon., Digital media and society: theories, topics and tools, 1st edition., Thousand Oaks, CA, SAGE Publications, 2017Compulsory*

Lecture 2: Journalism Theory - Culture & Technology

• Steensen, Steen; Ahva, Laura, Theories of journalism in a digital age, London, Routledge, 2017Compulsory* (Page numbers to be announced before the lecture.)
• Zelizer, How communication, culture, and critique intersect in the study of journalism, Part of: Communication, Culture & CritiqueCompulsory* (1(1), 86–91)
• Adorno, Culture Industry Reconsidered, Part of: New German critique: an interdisciplinary journal of German studies, 1975Compulsory* ((6), 12–19)

Lecture 3: Journalism Theory - Politics and Economy

• Niven, An Economic Theory of Political Journalism, Part of: Journalism & mass communication quarterly, 2005Compulsory* (82(2), 247–263)

Markham, T. (2011). The political phenomenology of war reporting. Journalism, 12(5), 567-585

Deuze, M., & Witschge, T. (2018). Beyond journalism: Theorizing the transformation of journalism. Journalism, 19(2), 165-181

Lecture 4: Ethical Theory and Journalism

• Ward, Stephen J. A., Ethical journalism in a populist age: the democratically engaged journalist, Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]Compulsory* (Page numbers to be announced before the lecture)
• Stephen, Ward, The Invention of Journalism Ethics, Second Edition: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond, McGill-Queen's UP, 2015Compulsory* (9–36 & 261–316)
• McBride, Kelly; Rosenstiel, Tom, The new ethics of journalism: principles for the 21st century, Los Angeles, SAGE, [2014]Compulsory* (Page numbers to be announced before the lecture.)
• Ess, Charles, Digital media ethics, 2. ed., Cambridge, Polity, 2014Compulsory*

Lecture 5: Summing up theory in Journalism studies

• deuze, mark, Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture, Part of: Information society: an international journal, no. 22:2, 2006, p. 63–75Compulsory*

Recommended literature

• Wahl-Jorgensen, Karin; Hanitzsch, Thomas, The handbook of journalism studies, 2nd edition., London, Routledge, 2020
• Allan, Stuart, The Routledge companion to news and journalism, London, Routledge, 2010
• Phillips, Kendall R., Framing public memory, Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, 2004
• Sainath, P., Everybody loves a good drought: stories from India's poorest districts, New Delhi, India, Penguin Books, 1996
• Christians, Clifford G., Media ethics: cases and moral reasoning, Tenth edition., New York, NY, Routledge, 2017
• Cook, Timothy E., Governing with the news: the news media as a political institution, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998
• Croteau, David.; Hoynes, William., Media/society: industries, images, and audiences, Fifth Edition., Thousand Oaks, CA, SAGE Publications, [2014]

* Compulsory