Intellect

Jostein Gripsrud is Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. He is an expert on the relations between media, culture and society and has published extensively on the history and social significance of literature, theatre, film, television, journalism - and related theoretical and political issues. His most recent book in English, Understanding Media Culture (2002) has been translated into several languages. From 2000-2004 he was team leader and member of the Core Steering Group in the research project Changing Media-Changing Europe, funded by the European Science Foundation. He is presently leader of the internationally networked research group DigiCult which organizes research activities on the digitization of media and the effect of this on culture and democracy.