News Media as a “Journalistic Field”: What Bourdieu Adds to New Institutionalism, and Vice Versa
@article{Benson2006NewsMA, title={News Media as a “Journalistic Field”: What Bourdieu Adds to New Institutionalism, and Vice Versa}, author={Rodney Benson}, journal={Political Communication}, year={2006}, volume={23}, pages={187 - 202} }
Bourdieu's field theory and the new institutionalism of Cook and Sparrow are similar in that they call for a new unit of analysis for journalism studies: between the individual news organization and the society as a whole, the “mezzo-level” interorganizational and professional environment of the field/institution. Bourdieu's focus on competition and difference, rooted in processes of cultural and economic class distinctions both among audiences and cultural producers, supplements the new…
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