scholarly journals Interpretations of the journalistic field: A systematic analysis of how journalism scholarship appropriates Bourdieusian thought

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492095955
Author(s):  
Phoebe Maares ◽  
Folker Hanusch
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Western Scholarship ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
Journalism Research ◽  
Depth Use

Like many fields of communication research, journalism scholarship draws on theories from other disciplines and mostly applies social theories to make sense of journalistic practices. One theory that has gained immense popularity in recent years is Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory. However, while there are now numerous studies using his concepts, we have little comprehensive understanding of how scholarship applies them. To this end, this study conducts a systematic analysis of 249 articles, using content analysis, textual analysis and citation analysis to examine how field theory is adopted and adapted, as well as who has interpretative authority in shaping Bourdieusian thought in journalism research. The findings suggest a selective in-depth use of field theory and that the appropriation of some concepts is still ambiguous. Moreover, it highlights once more the dominance of Western scholarship in the academic field.

Bourdieu’s Unlikely Contribution to the Human Sciences

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Levi Martin
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Field Theory ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gestalt Psychology ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Reciprocal Relations ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Do So

Chapter abstract The author of this chapter proposes that we consider Bourdieu’s work neither on its own terms, nor in the terms of the postwar French academic field, but in terms of the general problems that it solved. When we do so, we find that Bourdieu developed lines of thinking that had stalled in Germany and the United States. The former was the field theoretic tradition associated with Gestalt psychology and empirical phenomenology; the second was the habit theoretic tradition associated increasingly with pragmatism. Each had stalled because each seemed, in a way, too successful—everything turned into habit for pragmatist social psychology; field theory also put everything indiscriminately in the field of experience. By focusing on the reciprocal relations of habitus and field, Bourdieu developed these insights in ways that allowed for empirical exploration, and that cut against the French rationalist vocabulary that he inherited.

The Buzzfeedication of journalism? How traditional news organizations are talking about a new entrant to the journalistic field will surprise you!

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edson C Tandoc ◽  
Joy Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
The Third ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Long Form ◽  
Journalistic Field

Guided by the framework of field theory, this study analyzes how traditional news organizations perceived, defined, and represented BuzzFeed, a website that rose to online fame through aggregation of funny memes and cat videos but has since started producing investigative and long-form journalism pieces, heralding its formal entry into the journalistic field. Four themes emerged from the analysis. First, traditional news organizations demonstrate ambivalence in defining BuzzFeed. Second, traditional news organizations invoke journalistic doxa in their representations of BuzzFeed, to some extent demonstrating how they recognize BuzzFeed as having entered the journalistic field. This is consistent with the third theme, where traditional news organizations problematize BuzzFeed’s forms of economic and cultural capital. Finally, despite some degrees of uncertainty, traditional news organizations seem to positively welcome BuzzFeed’s entry into the journalistic field, both as a transformative force and as a potential ally for preservation.

scholarly journals The Dislocation of News Journalism: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Epistemologies of Digital Journalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Ekström ◽  
Oscar Westlund
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
News Media ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Journalism Research ◽  
Knowledge Claims

This article focuses on news journalism, social media platforms and power, and key implications for epistemology. The conceptual framework presented is intended to inspire and guide future studies relating to the emerging sub-field of journalism research that we refer to as “Epistemologies of Digital Journalism”. The article discusses the dependencies between news media and social media platforms (non-proprietary to the news media). The authority and democratic role of news journalism pivot on claims that it regularly provides accurate and verified public knowledge. However, how are the epistemic claims of news journalism and the practices of justifications affected by news journalism’s increased dependency on social media platforms? This is the overall question discussed in this article. It focuses on the intricate power dependencies between news media and social media platforms and proceeds to discuss implications for epistemology. It presents a three-fold approach differentiating between (1) articulated knowledge and truth claims, (2) justification in the journalism practices and (3) the acceptance/rejections of knowledge claims in audience activities. This approach facilitates a systematic analysis of how diverse aspects of epistemology interrelate with, and are sometimes conditioned by, the transformations of news and social media.

scholarly journals Hybrid professionalism in journalism: Opportunities and risks of hacker sources

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Di Salvo ◽  
Colin Porlezza
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Online News ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
News Magazine ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
Shed Light

Hackers have a double relevance with regard to the transformation of the journalistic field: first, they have established themselves as journalistic actors, even if their work may sometimes seem unfamiliar. Second, hackers have not only become important sources for information but they are also a topic of public interest in a data-driven society increasingly threatened by surveillance capitalism. This paper critically discusses the role of hackers as news sources by analyzing the “stalkerware” investigation carried out by the online news magazine Motherboard. Drawing from field theory and boundary work, the article sheds light on how hackers exert an increasing influence on journalism, its practices, epistemologies, and ethics, resulting in an increasing hybridization of journalism. Journalism has become a dynamic space, in which hackers are not only becoming relevant actors in the journalism field, but they often represent the only sources journalists have to shed light on wrongdoings. Hence, hackers are increasingly defining the conditions under which journalism is carried out, both in terms of its practices as well as in its normative framework.

Journalist social media practice in China: A review and synthesis

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1452-1470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guowei Jian ◽  
Ting Liu
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Social Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
The West ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Patterns Of Practice ◽  
Scholarly Attention

The growing influence of social media on journalistic work has attracted scholarly attention worldwide in recent years. However, due to cultural and language barriers, we lack comprehensive understanding of the journalist social media practice in non-Western countries. To help fill this gap, this study offers a review and synthesis of existing scholarship on journalist social media practice in China. The authors systematically analyzed recent research studies published in both English-language journals in the West and Chinese-language journals in Mainland China. Drawing on Bourdieu’s field theory, the synthesis provided a comprehensive review of the patterns of practice as well as key tensions that social media use helped amplify and with which Chinese journalists had to contend.

scholarly journals Placemaking in Informal Settlements: The Case of France Colony, Islamabad, Pakistan

Urban Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Ramisa Shafqat ◽  
Dora Marinova ◽  
Shahed Khan
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
Spatial Attributes ◽  
Life Values

This paper provides an alternative perspective on urban informal settlements by analysing them as places of rural remnants, reservoirs of regional cultural heritage, and spaces entailing traditional sustainable elements that are brought to the urban realm by rural migrants. These socio-cultural and spatial attributes of a settlement converge under the notion of a “place.” Placemaking analysis is thus contended to be appropriate for comprehensive understanding of an informal settlement. The selected case study of France Colony, Islamabad, employs the placemaking methodology framework to investigate sustainability values and practices from the day-to-day living of its inhabitants. Data collected through on-site interviews during transect walks in France Colony are then translated into four maps as a spatio-cultural documentation of the sustainable elements found in the informal settlement. The four maps relate to form and users, activities and amenities, image and characteristics, and access and linkages. This systematic analysis assisted in categorising the sustainability characteristics of the informal settlements according to the three pillars (social, economic, and environmental) of sustainability. The findings show that the organic placemaking, originating from everyday life, values, behaviour, and lifestyle of the informal dwellers, allows for a strong and vibrant resilient community to emerge.

Tweeting #Ferguson: Mediatized fields and the new activist journalist

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 2252-2271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Journalistic Field

As a hybrid, journo-activist space, tweeting #Ferguson quickly emerged as a way for activists and journalists to network and spread information. Using a mixed-methods approach combining digital ethnographic content analysis with social network analysis and link analysis, this study examines journalistic and activist uses of Twitter to identify changes in field relations and practices. Employing the lenses of field theory and mediatization, this study finds parity and divergence in the themes, frames, format, and discourse of journalist and activist Twitter practices. While the traditions of objective journalism and affective activism persist, notable exceptions occurred, especially following acts of police suppression. The networked communities of professional and activist Twitter users were overlapping and interactive, suggesting hybridity at the margins of the journalistic field. Given the hybridizing of journalistic and journo-activist practices, this case study examines the role of social media in efforts to report on and bolster social change.

scholarly journals Challenged by the state and the Internet: Struggles for professionalism in Southeast Asian journalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (62) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Lehmann-Jacobsen
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
The Media ◽  
Journalistic Field

As in other regions, journalism in Southeast Asia is under pressure. Journalists in many of the region’s emerging markets have to develop their profession while struggling with changing market conditions, increasingly more demanding audiences, different degrees of authoritative states and growing competition from the Internet. Based on qualitative interviews and drawing on a combination of role theory and Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, this article compares the role performances of journalists in Singapore and Vietnam by looking into the different expectations journalists in the two countries meet. The article illustrates how journalists continue to feel most conflicted about conforming with the states’ expectations to their profession. However, online actors imposing on the journalistic field are beginning to have a progressively bigger impact. Though they push the boundaries and set the media agenda, journalists fear they are changing the journalistic habitus, devaluing the journalistic capital and eroding years’ worth of professionalization progress.

Questionable Research Practices in Experimental Communication Research: A Systematic Analysis From 1980 to 2013

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Matthes ◽  
Franziska Marquart ◽  
Brigitte Naderer ◽  
Florian Arendt ◽  
Desirée Schmuck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Research ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Questionable Research Practices
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