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What are the relations between an academic trajectory and the research field, and how do they change over time? This interview with the cultural and media sociologist, Philip Schlesinger, is part of my ongoing reflections on media research history. The role of British media research and cultural sociology is particularly interesting and important, and Philip Schlesinger is one among several of his generation who, since the 1970s, has played a significant role in the formation of the field, internationally. The interview covers part of his academic trajectory to date: his ethnographic work on the BBC and recurrent focus on media, state and national identities are discussed along with his writing on Latin American cultural theory and on the European public sphere. The interview closes with a discussion of Schlesinger's most recent research on cultural intermediaries as well as his public engagement and longstanding academic institution building.

The conversion of newspapers from print to digital is not taking place in a simple and direct way. In Norway at least, digital news distribution is still developing on the basis of the print media order. But at the same time, it is increasingly becoming a diversified and strategically nuanced logic of online news distribution. What is remarkable in the Norwegian situation is the stability in the high number of outlets and annual sales. It is argued that the Norwegian subsidy system is the most important cause for the high and stable number of newspapers. Indirectly, it also seems to support the development of a competitive market for the development of digital strategies. There is a high rate of innovation in the Norwegian media system, and this article looks into the different digital strategies in different types of newspapers and shows the emergence of a complex pattern of digital news distribution in the Norwegian media order.

This paper reports from a research project on how selected Norwegian newspapers covered the NATO-led military engagement in Libya in 2011. As a backdrop we build on earlier research on the role between the media and security policy which had found that in times of war the media in general support the government. We an alyze Norwegian newspaper's ability to present, discuss and expr ess opinions on the principal political and legal questions concerning international military interventions in general and Norwegia n participation in the NATO-led operations in Libya 2011 in particular Our findings is that legal issues are underreported but that the left wi ng press and niche newspapers offer a critical opposition to the government policy and the NATO-operation. ; publishedVersion

"Der vorliegende Aufsatz berichtet über ein Forschungsprojekt zur Frage, wie ausgewählte norwegischer Zeitungen über das militärische Engagement der NATO in Lybien, 2011, berichtet haben. Als Hintergrund der Studie dienen frühere Untersuchungen zur Rolle der Medien in der Sicherheitspolitik, welche gezeigt hatten, dass die Medien in Kriegszeiten gewöhnlich die Regierung unterstützen. Wir analysieren die Fähigkeit der norwegischen Presse, die grundlegenden politischen und rechtlichen Fragen, die mit internationalen militärischen Interventionen im allgemeinen und im speziellen mit der norwegischen Beteiligung an der NATO-geführten Operation in Lybien verbunden sind, aufzugreifen, sie zu diskutieren und dazu Stellung zu beziehen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass rechtliche Fragen zwar zu wenig berichtet wurden, die linksgerichtete Presse und Nischenzeitungen aber eine kritische Opposition zur Regierungspolitik und zu der NATO-Operation eingenommen haben." (Autorenreferat)