| Summary: | The present article discusses the importance of the early years of mass communications
in order to understand the shaping of them – the power of creating mass media for whole
nations. It begins with references to scholars studying large nations and asks whether their
results can be generalized to smaller countries. Therefore, it uses Norway as a case study.
To what degree were Norway’s four major mass media – press, film, radio and television –
formed institutionally in their early years? And if they were formed in this way, how long
did the consequences of such a formation last? These questions have been neglected topics
in research, so in order to answer them we also need to rethink the connections between
the different media.
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