SMID – Sammenslutningen af medieforskere i Danmark

The Transformation of Newspapers and Journalism

Research seminar, October 29-30, 2009
Copenhagen University, Karen Blixens Vej, 2300 Copenhagen S
(New KUA), room 27.0.47

Thursday, October 29

Theme 1: The institution of journalism

Martin Eide, Professor, University of Bergen: Renegotiating a Social Contract
Stig Hjarvard, Professor, University of Copenhagen: The Views of the News. Newspapers as a Resource for Opinion Formation
Paschal Preston, Professor, Dublin City University: ‘Creative Destruction’? European Journalism in an Era of Crisis as well as Digitalisation

Theme 2: The texts and audiences of journalism

Kim Christian Schrøder, Professor, Roskilde University: Mapping news consumers’ navigation in the cross-media news landscape. Towards a new map of news consumption
Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen: Cultural journalism in the Danish printed press – a history of decline or increasing media institutional profiling?
Unni From, Associate Professor, Aarhus University: Expectations for journalism on culture

Friday, October 30.

Theme 2 – continued

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Associate Professor, Cardiff University: Audiences Views on User-Generated Content: Exploring the value of news from the bottom up
Ida Willig, Associate Professor, University of Roskilde: Thinking about ‘the citizen’ but writing for ‘the consumer’: The Marketization of News Production

Theme 3: Journalism and politics

Henrik Bødker, Associate Professor, University of Aarhus: Journalism as Resources for Political and Cultural (Re)Alignments
Sigurd Allern, Professor, University of Stockholm: The power over election campaigns
Camilla Dindler, Doctoral Student, University of Copenhagen: New roles and functions among journalists and their sources in the Danish parliament?

You will find the full programme of the research seminar here:
http://aviser.mef.ku.dk/october09seminar/

The seminar is organized by the research programme “Aviser og journalistik i forandring” – see http://aviser.mef.ku.dk/front/