Time & Place: Friday September 27 at 13-15 in lecture hall M2.
Guest lecturer: Oscar Westlund, Associate professor at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication at the University of Gothenburg and the IT University of Copenhagen.
Title: Mobile news gaining significance in contemporary cross-media news work
Talk: Legacy news have since the 1990's developed their news provision towards digital and mobile platforms, by repurposing or customizing journalistic content published for mobile sites and/or applications. This lecture discusses cross-media news work, giving particular emphasis to the production of mobile news. It discusses and synthesizes the findings of the contemporary literature found in the nexus of journalism and mobile media. It also presents a model of journalism focusing on the roles of humans and technology in activities characterized by customizing and repurposing.
About: Oscar Westlund serves on the editorial boards of the journals Digital Journalism, the Journal of Media Innovations and Mobile Media & Communication. He has researched the production and consumption of mobile news since 2005, and has recently published a book, many book chapters and also several articles in international journals on the subject.
Literature:
- Westlund (2013). "Mobile news: A review and model of journalism in an age of mobile media". Digital Journalism, Vol.1. No.1, pp.6-26. Available in Bilda.
- Westlund (2011). "Cross-media news work - Sensemaking of the mobile media (r)evolution". Doctoral dissertation, JMG Book Series No.64, University of Gothenburg. Available online.
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