Media, Politics and Populism

The transition of the newspaper media from party ownership to group ownership. Commercialised broadcast media. Communication of politics by the media and the professional ideology of people who work in the media. Party development and the participation crisis. Relationships between trends in media development and trends in the development of political parties and democracy. The role of the media with regard to political populism and alienation. Consequences for work on politics and media in school.

The student

- is familiar with the development and essential features of the Norwegian media landscape.
- can identify, discuss and consider various questions associated with the diversity of the press and democracy.
- can assess what role the prevailing professional ideology among journalists and media people has played in the development of the selection criteria used by the media.
- can form a view on what relationships may possibly be found between the weakening of the Norwegian parties as membership organisations, declining participation in voting, an increasing populist and individualistic trend and the development of the media.
- can critically discuss the consequences that developments in the media and politics have had, may have, or ought to have for political and media teaching in school.

Forelesninger, studentseminar