ABSTRACT
Before you read the extract, write down a short paragraph explaining why you think a study of the media is important.
It was my third night in Stockholm, a very cold February night, and I’d gone to have supper with old friends, people I see maybe every two years, usually at conferences. There was one other guest, the professor in the department in which I was a visiting scholar, a man I hadn’t met before. A few years older than I am, I’d guess . . . We talked, we ate, and about halfway through the main course, Johan said, ‘Let me play it to you!’ and jumped over to the CD player.
