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The Nordic peoples, creators of ancient sagas, are fond of history – and also of media history. A number of recently completed research projects have appeared in the shape of multi-volume studies of media history, projects which in other countries probably would have ended up being published as monographs. It is not easy to explain this particular Nordic love for large-scale series. Maybe it has something to do with the size of these countries – maybe small nations harbour favourable conditions for overview and transparency, leading them to prefer grand, national syntheties rather than single-volumed studies. Or what do you get out of the following facts: The Finns have just put out nothing less than a 10 volume history of the Finnish press, while the standard history of the British press covers a modest two volumes (Koss 1981/ 84). In addition, the history of Finnish broadcasting covers three volumes plus an additional volume in English. The recent Danish Media History adds up to three handsomely produced volumes. A Swedish press history is out just now, with two out of altogether four volumes in print. Very delicious, very large scale. To be completed in a couple of months is a fifteen or so volume series of studies covering the history of Swedish broadcasting. Indeed, within a remarkable short span of years, “media history” has definitely made itself felt as a heavy contribution to media studies in this part of the world. And this seems to go on, as I can demonstrate through a short glance at the situation in Norway. A three-volume history of Norwegian broadcasting was completed two years ago. A projected 4-volume history of the Norwegian press is scheduled to be launched in 2010; preparations are just now being made within a planning committee. And a two volume history of cultural & media politics has just been commissioned, to be completed as a collective research project at the Institute of media & communication in Oslo. The love of history in the Nordic countries is all the more remarkable as the sheer concept of “media history” is a fairly recent one. When the Nordic media research conferences started to convene in the 1970s, there was no such thing as “media history”, in fact the term itself was not yet coined. A study group of that name came into being in the late 1980s. Today, the Media History Conference Group is the largest one in work, encompassing none less than 21 research papers. We may wonder a bit about this, as the turn to history has occurred at a time when the media situation in general has changed deeply. Indeed, as all these huge volumes have PLENARY SESSION III

Plenary Session III. Media History. The Challenges of Media History