The Interaction of Production and Consumption in the News Media Social Space

2009 ◽  
pp. 229-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Graham ◽  
Finola Kerrigan ◽  
Rashid Mehmood ◽  
Mustafizur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Production And Consumption

Spaces of Consumption in American Literary Realism

2019 ◽  
pp. 391-410
Author(s):  
Gary Totten
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Literary Realism ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Strategies

This chapter discusses how consumer culture affects the depiction and meaning of the natural world in the work of American realist writers. These writers illuminate the relationship between natural environments and the social expectations of consumer culture and reveal how such expectations transform natural space into what Henri Lefebvre terms “social space” implicated in the processes and power dynamics of production and consumption. The representation of nature as social space in realist works demonstrates the range of consequences such space holds for characters. Such space can both empower and oppress individuals, and rejecting or embracing it can deepen moral resolve, prompt a crisis of self, or result in one’s death. Characters’ attempts to escape social space and consumer culture also provide readers with new strategies for coping with their effects.

Distinction recapped: Digital news repertoires in the class structure

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 3029-3049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Lindell
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Digital Inequality ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Statistical Representation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital News ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Class Habitus

This article mobilizes Pierre Bourdieu’s full theory-method to study how class shapes our news orientations in a digital, high-choice media environment. An online survey ( N = 3850) was used to create a statistical representation of the contemporary Swedish social space with variables measuring access to economic, cultural, social, and cosmopolitan capital. A range of digital news preferences and practices were then given co-ordinates in that space. Results highlight the importance of class habitus for the formation of digital news repertoires. Since different groups form altogether different news repertoires—and distaste the preferences of the groups most different to themselves (in terms of access to capitals)—news practices and preferences solidify the positions of groups in the social structure. The study sheds light on the relationship between social and digital inequality and challenges the psychological and individualistic bias in contemporary research on news media use.

scholarly journals The Death and Life of UK Universities and the Cultural Spaces They Consume

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Igea Troiani ◽  
Tonia Carless
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Charlie Chaplin ◽  
University Marketing ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
University Town ◽  
The University ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
The City

The shift in focus in UK higher education since Thatcherism from the production of knowledge for civic betterment to the production and consumption of knowledge by the university for revenue generation can be read through the social rearrangement of space in the university town or city. A key spatial reconfiguration emerging from the shift in economic conditions is the collapse of the modern university as a singular, ideological construct. Like ‘the city’ before it, the modern university has, at its interior, been reformed into a newly defined, fragmented public–private social space, and, at its exterior, into a devourer of the space of the local community. This article showcases excerpts from a film made by the authors entitled The Death and Life of UK Universities – a title inspired by Jane Jacobs’s critique of great American cities. Our film is a cinematic database survey of the changing space of all British universities which considers this systematic spatial reprogramming of space within the city. The two-year research project is an audio-visual critique of the way in which neoliberalism, corporatization and commercial interests have co-opted the space of the British university. Referencing the films of Charlie Chaplin and Gordon Matta-Clark and the writings of Henri Lefebvre, the film focuses on university cities, critically observing the rise of university marketing material and the consumption of the city and of local community life for university student accommodation. We ask: How are UK universities being spatially reconfigured and what are the consequences?

Shifting foundations: Journalism and the power of the ‘common good’

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 801-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristy Hess
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Relationship

This essay rethinks the relationship between news media and the universal notion of the ‘common good’ as a key foundational concept for journalism studies. It challenges dominant liberal democratic theories of the press linked to the idea of the ‘public good’ to offer a new way of conceptualizing news media’s relationship to civic life that incorporates power and legitimacy in the changing media world. In doing so, it argues current understandings of journalism’s relationship to the common good also require some re-alignment. The essay draws on Pierre Bourdieu to contend the common good can be understood as a global doxa – an unquestionable orthodoxy that operates as if it were objective truth – across wider social space. How this is carried out in practice depends on the specific context in which it is understood. It positions the common good in relation to news media’s symbolic power to construct reality and argues certain elites generate and reinforce their legitimacy by being perceived as central to negotiating understandings of the common good with links to culture, community and shared values.

News Use as Amplification: Norwegian National, Regional, and Hyperpartisan Media on Facebook

2019 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 721-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Olof Larsson
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
News Production ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
News Use

This study details the influence of hyperpartisan media actors in comparison to regional and national news media competitors by gauging audience engagement in relation to news on Facebook in Norway. Adopting the perspective of news use as a way of understanding such engagement, the study finds that followers of hyperpartisan Facebook Pages are more active than those following mainstream media Pages. The study also looks closer into what kinds of news are engaged with to higher degrees than others, building on these results in suggesting opportunities for future research into news production and consumption on Facebook.

Typology of Household Strategies of Action in Four Countries of Southeastern Europe in a Period of Economic Crisis

Südosteuropa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Predrag Cvetičanin ◽  
Miran Lavrič
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
General Level ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Household Strategies

AbstractIn this paper, we explore whether the myriad production and consumption household practices in four societies of Southeastern Europe (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia) can empirically be reduced to a relatively small number of coherent and socially meaningful combinations, which we have labelled household strategies of action. Approaching the same data from two different angles, namely, using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Two-Step Cluster Analysis (TCA), we have identified five general household strategies and eleven more detailed and specific sub-strategies. More importantly, by projecting these strategies and sub-strategies onto the social space, we have shown that these household practices are linked to the class position of households. On a more general level, it is indicated that the study of household strategies can be viewed as a way of rendering relatively static structural approaches, in this case the Bourdieusian approach to social space, more dynamic.

‘Being TED’: The university intellectual as globalised neoliberal consumer self

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley Shumar
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
High Tech ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Cultural Ideal ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University ◽  
Ted Talks

This article focuses on the ways that modern American universities are engaged in the process of articulating new producing and consuming subjects. It argues that the image of the engaged ‘media celebrity’ intellectual, as presented in the TED Talk model, has become a cultural ideal that reconciles a deeper contradiction in the academy. Through a complex process, university faculty and students are assimilated into the globalised lifestyle and the identity of cosmopolitans by participating in a social space that is at once an upscale shopping mall and at the same time a high tech corporate research park. This global elite is forged first out of individuals who make it through the university and then secondly out of those university students who successfully excel under the twin pressures of elite production and consumption. Most student, faculty and universities fall short of this ideal. But by watching TED talks they can aspire to this fantasy ideal through the image of the media celebrity intellectual.

scholarly journals Three Futures Scenarios of Policy Instruments for Sustainable Textile Production and Consumption as Portrayed in the Finnish News Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 594
Author(s):  
Laura Virta ◽  
Riikka Räisänen
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Textile Production ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Current State ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Media

This research uses futures studies as background methodology and presents three scenarios for sustainable textile production and consumption based on the data of the Finnish news media. The scenarios extend to 2050, and the emphasis is on recognising policy instruments that can potentially support sustainable textile production and consumption. The first data set included 214 news articles from 2019 that were analysed using theory-guided qualitative content analysis. The second data set consisted of five textile experts’ evaluations of the probability and preferability of claims based on the first data set. As a result, a table of future scenarios was created, including descriptions of the current state and preferable, threatening and probable textile futures. The data show that textile and fashion sustainability issues are strongly presented in the media as part of the comprehensive climate-change-driven criticism of consumerism. The data emphasised a need for a holistic change in production and consumption. The most likely forms of policy instruments appear to be stronger corporate responsibility legislation (regulatory), environmental taxation of goods and services (economic), and eco-labelling of goods and services (information). These help in reaching the preferable scenario for 2050, which suggests a carbon-neutral textile production based on a circular economy.

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