disputerer for Ph.D. - graden i humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap, fagområde religionsvitenskap og vil offentlig forsvare avhandlingen:
"The Morung Express: Naganess, indigeneity and religion"
Prøveforelesning over oppgitt emne holdes kl. 15.00 den 21.03 samme sted:
"The Benefits and Challenges of Conducting Research as an Insider"
Prøveforelesning og disputas vil bli strømmet/the trial lecture and defense will be streamed.
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Disputasen starter kl. 15.00 den 22.03.
Opptak av disputasen vil være tilgjengelig i en måned.
A recording of the disputation will be available for one month.
Avhandlingen er tilgjengelig her
Populærvitenskapelig sammendrag av avhandlingen:
This research looks at The Morung Express, a newspaper published from Nagaland, India, which started in 2005 and often focuses on indigenous issues. The study covers the years 2020 to 2023 and uses different methods like analysing the newspaper’s content, talking to the people who work there, and the author’s own experience as a journalist. The main questions are about how the newspaper connects ‘Naganess’ to indigenous and Christian ideas, how the newspaper’s journalists and founders reflect on these connections, and if, or how, the newspaper can be termed an ‘indigenous media’. The study uses a theory to understand the ways in which The Morung Express connects local and global ideas while reporting the news for its audience, or collating articles from other web platforms on its pages. Special themes help study how these connections are established through the medium of print media, what can be published, what can be challenged while producing the news, and what it means to do journalism in this format in Nagaland. The research delves into questions of how media practices are shaped through their relation to local and global histories and material conditions through which they operate.
Hovedveileder:
professor Siv Ellen Kraft, UiT Norges arktiske universitet.
Biveileder:
professor Bjørn Ola Tafjord, Universitetet i Bergen.
Bedømmelseskomité:
førsteamanuensis PhD Minna Opas. University of Turku 1. opponent
førsteamanuensis PhD Sanjay Barbora. University of California, Santa Cruz, US. 2. opponent
førsteamanuensis PhD Michael T. Heneise. UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Disputasleder:
instituttleder Joakim Aalmen Markussen, Institutt for arkeologi, historie, religionsvitenskap og teologi.
De som ønsker å opponere ex auditorio kan sende e-post til leder av disputas joakim.a.markussen@uit.no innen kl. 17.00 disputasdagen