Bourdieu and the Journalistic FieldISBN: 978-0-7456-3387-9
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256 pages
January 2005, Polity
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Presenting for the first time in English the work of influential
scholars who worked with or were influenced by Bourdieu, this
volume is the one and only book for Anglophone scholars seeking a
more detailed elaboration of field theory in relation to the mass
media.
In his short book 'On Television', Bourdieu provided a powerful
critique of the 'journalistic field', but what exactly does he mean
by this? How does the journalistic field relate to external
economic and political pressures? And what kind of autonomy can, or
should, journalists expect to maintain?
Such questions are taken up in case studies of such diverse
phenomena as media coverage of the AIDS-contaminated blood scandal
in France, U.S. youth media activism, and political interview shows
on both sides of the Atlantic. Chapters by both American and French
scholars also demonstrate methods for measuring field autonomy and
spatially mapping journalistic fields, or discuss the similarities
and differences between field theory, new institutionalism,
hegemony, and differentiation theory. Rejecting all forms of
dogmatism, the authors in this volume demonstrate why field theory
remains a "work in progress," and indeed, a research paradigm whose
promise has only begun to be tapped.
The book includes an important and hitherto unpublished text by Pierre Bourdieu, 'Fields of Journalism, Social Science and Politics', and contributions from Rodney Benson, Patrick Champagne, Eric Darras, Julien Duval, Daniel Hallin, Eric Klinenberg, Dominique Marchetti, Erik Neveu, and Michael Schudson.