Premeditations of performance in recent live television

The article discusses the ways that performances in television are premeditated. Its focus is on practices of scripting performances in current interactive and reality TV. With a basis in empirical material on television production, the article describes concretely some cases of scripting in international television formats. Its focus is particularly on forms of scripting that are seldom recognized as such, thus contributing to a feel of the real, the authentic and the immediate. Three forms of scripting are discussed: ‘cueing’, scripting of social settings and scripting of temporal sequencings. The article shows how current television formats that strive for the unscripted feel in fact could be said to involve radical extensions of scripting beyond conventional practices. In more general theoretical terms, the article suggests looking to the scripting of mediated performances as an alternative approach to the tradition of media production studies

Et mediert nasjonsfellesskap

Praktisk talt ingen av dem som i dag besøker Frognerparken, vet at den oppsto som et svar på hva man skulle gjøre med tomta etter den store Jubileumsutstillingen på Frogner i 1914, da utstillingen vel var nedímontert. Oppmerksomheten om Jubiíleumsutstillingen har også vært begrenset blant faghistorikerne. Den har fått mest oppmerksomhet som et kuriøst eksempel på rasediskriminering, siden den blant annet inneholdt ââ¬ÂKongolandsbyenââ¬Â, der en gruppe senegalesere var redusert til levende utstillingsobjekter

The Romantic Fantasy of Even and Isak - an Exploration of Scandinavian Women Looking for Gratification in the Teen Serial SKAM

Under embargo until: 2022-04-05Based on ethnographic reception analysis, cultural sociology, and psychoanalytic film analysis, this article explores a group of Scandinavian adult female fans of the gay couple Even and Isak from the teen serial SKAM. The aim is to acquire knowledge about what pleasures this group gains from watching and chatting online about this serial. We argue that through their pondering of the gay couple as a romantic fantasy, these women address and negotiate social contradictions regarding gender and sexuality that they encounter in Scandinavian post-feminist societies.acceptedVersio

Towards a historical understanding of the media event

The English-language research tradition of studying media events is widely considered to have started with Dayan and Katz’ Media Events. This seminal work is characterised by an emphasis on liveness and broadcast technology as conditions of eventfulness. The German-language tradition of research on historical media events provides a very different approach to studying media events, starting from the 16th-century advent of mechanical production and distribution. Bringing together these strands of research, the article argues for a deepening of the historical dimension in conceiving of media events. After a critical review of the English-language tradition and an overview of key media-historical research contributions particularly from Germany, it discusses three main themes: the role of temporal acceleration over time by means of media technologies; the role of premeditation in events and the tradition of discussing media-generated events as ‘pseudo-events’, and the historically shifting relationships between mediated and non-mediated communication in the event. By way of conclusion, the article relates a historical perspective on media events to recent research and discussion around mediatisation

A change is gonna come: Media Events and the promise of transformation

This commentary on Media Events frames it as centrally being about societal transformation. The issue of transformation has been central in philosophical and historical approaches to the event, and Media Events can be considered an extension of those traditions into media studies. The commentary suggests ways that Dayan and Katz’s thinking on transformation can be developed within a historical approach to the study of events and their mediations

Kampen om kosen

Norsk helgeunderholdning gjennomgår for tiden en utvikling som fører fra monopoltidens nasjonssamlende Erik Bye- og Harald Tusberg-programmer, mot nittitallets vekstsjanger talkshowet. Talkshowene er i dag et hoved-satsingsområde i den stadig mer tilspissede konkurransen mellom de norske kanalene. De plasserer seg på forskjellig måte i spenningsfeltet mellom amerikanske forbilder og egenutviklede konsepter