FOREIGN NEWS IN DAGSREVYEN IN 1968:
A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE GLOBAL 1968 REVOLUTIONS
IN NORWEGIAN TELEVISION

All of the recent international research has emphasized the impact of the media in spreading the "global 1968 revolution" in the late 1960s. Through the coverage in the media the activists in different countries got a feeling of belonging to a global movement that was fighting for similar political aims. The establishment also considered that the media, and especially television, played an important role in the spreading of social and political unrest.

There is however very little documentation of how this spreading actually happened. This paper gives a quantitative analysis of the "global 1968 revolution" as portrayed in the Norwegian television news program NRK Dagsrevyen in 1968. Among many important questions, the paper will try to give an answer as to which international events the Norwegian Broadcasting decided to cover and which they decided not to comment. Where did the international news come from and which channels did they flow through? 

This paper will see the coverage of the "1968 revolution" as part of the total coverage of Foreign News in NRK Dagsrevyen in this year. The quantitative analyses will eventually end up in a qualitative analysis. One of the hypotheses in my project is that there is a connection between volume of coverage from different countries and regions, and how the term "1968 revolution" was later used in the Norwegian public.

Rolf Werenskjold (b. 1957) is Associate Professor at Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway, since 2003. He is teaching Media History. From 2003 Doctorial Candidate in Media Studies at Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. He gained a History degree from University of Bergen in 1987 and has worked as First Archivist at Bergen City archive and project leader with the Executive Officer of City of Bergen from 1987 to 1992. From 1992 to 2003 he was Assistant - and Associate Professor in Modern History at Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Volda University College, Norway.

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