Print vs Internet in Norway - Farewell to provinciality?

The sparsely populated Norway is of interest in many respects. Traditionall y, the Norwegians have a close relationship to mass media of all kinds. Nor wegian Newspapers satifie rather local to regional information needs, telev ision. in contrary, covers the national and international information needs . Both mass media back up a passive attitude of recipients. Due to the triu mphant march of the internet and, above all, the web-related services, we o bserve an active international tendency among Norwegians, But, we have to a sk ourselves, whether this tendency is accompanied by a farewell to provinc iality or if it is just the reflection of a phoney argument? Below, we are going to take a close look at the Norwegian newspaper market, but our main focus will be the web-related information services. As a kind of side effec t, we give an answer to the question: How does the German-Nordic informatio n exchange function?.