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.

Towards a “Digital” Sports Journalism: Field Theory, Changing Boundaries and Evolving Technologies

2020 ◽  
pp. 216747952097995
Author(s):  
Gregory Perreault ◽  
Travis R. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Sports Journalism ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
Long Form ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Digital Sports

Long trivialized as the “toy department,” sports journalism nevertheless represents an enduring, and vital subfield within journalism. As with many niches of journalism, sports journalism has needed to adjust to changes resulting from the technology of the field. In particular, digital sports journalism faces pressure from adjacent fields, represented in team and player media, which perform many of the same tasks historically attributed to sports journalism. Through the lens of field theory, the present study reports on long-form interviews with 47 sports journalists who self-defined their work as digital journalism. This study argues that the perception of insurgents—team media that prior research demonstrated is often seen as a part of the field—has caused digital sports journalists to view their work as economically vital to the individual newsroom, but not topically essential to the journalistic field at large.

Field Theory, Cultural Capital, and the First Amendment: Two Paradoxes in the Legitimation of News

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (01) ◽  
pp. 58-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth E. Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
Privacy Rights ◽  
Minimum Standard ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The Media ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Does law influence the legitimation of news? I examine legitimations offered during ethics debates about news stories in which private people are thrust into the media spotlight. When navigating the space between what can be published lawfully and what should be published, journalism organizations offer legitimations that vary in ways that reflect the hierarchy of legal frameworks for decision. According to field theory, the cultural capital of the juridical field is constitutive of status hierarchies in the journalism field, even though the First Amendment leaves journalism to structure itself. This structuring leads to two paradoxes. First, in the performance ofnegative legitimation, news organizations justify ethics violations by converting the minimum standard of lawful speech into claimsmaking about laudable speech. Second, in acts ofdisplacing legitimation, reporters suggest that more publicity is the remedy for invading privacy, translating the valorization of speech rights over privacy rights into a puzzling norm.

scholarly journals Taste matters: Cultural capital and elites in proximate Strategic Action Fields

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crawford Spence ◽  
Chris Carter ◽  
Javier Husillos ◽  
Pablo Archel
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
The Public ◽  
Strategic Action Field

Recent literature suggests that elites are increasingly fragmented and divided. Yet there is very little empirical research that maps the distinctions between different elite groups. This article explores the cultural divisions that pertain to elite factions in two distinct but proximate Strategic Action Fields. A key insight from the article is that the public sector faction studied exhibits a much broader, more aesthetic set of cultural dispositions than their private sector counterparts. This permits a number of inter-related contributions to be made to literature on both elites and field theory. First, the findings suggest that cultural capital acts as a salient source of distinction between elite factions in different Strategic Action Fields. Second, it is demonstrated how cultural capital is socially functional as certain cultural dispositions are strongly homologous with specific professional roles. Third, the article demonstrates the implications for the structure of the State when two culturally distinct elites are brought together in a new Strategic Action Field.

Journalism and Explaining News Content

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Albæk ◽  
Morten Skovsgaard ◽  
Claes H. de Vreese
Keyword(s):  
Professional Values ◽  
News Content ◽  
The Third ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The Individual

Three models are presented to explain variation in news content. In the first model the explanation is based on the individual journalist, in the second model on the professional journalist, and in the third model on the organized journalist. The individual journalist model focuses on how the background and values of individual journalists may impact their journalistic products; the professional journalist model considers the professional values and work norms that apply across individual journalists and across news organizations; the organized journalist model looks at how the organization within which journalists work may affect news content.

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.

scholarly journals ON BORWEIN’S CONJECTURES FOR PLANAR UNIFORM RANDOM WALKS

2019 ◽  
Vol 107 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
YAJUN ZHOU
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Random Walks ◽  
Euclidean Plane ◽  
Feynman Diagrams ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Third Order ◽  
The Third ◽  
Uniformly Convergent

Let $p_{n}(x)=\int _{0}^{\infty }J_{0}(xt)[J_{0}(t)]^{n}xt\,dt$ be Kluyver’s probability density for $n$-step uniform random walks in the Euclidean plane. Through connection to a similar problem in two-dimensional quantum field theory, we evaluate the third-order derivative $p_{5}^{\prime \prime \prime }(0^{+})$ in closed form, thereby giving a new proof for a conjecture of J. M. Borwein. By further analogies to Feynman diagrams in quantum field theory, we demonstrate that $p_{n}(x),0\leq x\leq 1$ admits a uniformly convergent Maclaurin expansion for all odd integers $n\geq 5$, thus settling another conjecture of Borwein.

scholarly journals Six-dimensional considerations of Einstein's connection for the first two classes. II. The Einstein's connection in6-g-UFT

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-488
Author(s):  
Kyung Tae Chung ◽  
Gye Tak Yang ◽  
In Ho Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Recurrence Relations ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Field Tensor ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Condition ◽  
Unified Field Theory ◽  
The Third ◽  
Unified Field ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Lower Dimensional

Lower dimensional cases of Einstein's connection were already investigated by many authors forn=2,3,4,5. In the following series of two papers, we present a surveyable tensorial representation of6-dimensional Einstein's connection in terms of the unified field tensor:I. The recurrence relations in6-g-UFT.II. The Einstein's connection in6-g-UFT.In our previous paper [2], we investigated some algebraic structure in Einstein's6-dimensional unified field theory (i.e.,6-g-UFT), with emphasis on the derivation of the recurrence relations of the third kind which hold in6-g-UFT. This paper is a direct continuation of [2]. The purpose of the present paper is to prove a necessary and sufficient condition for a unique Einstein's connection to exist in6-g-UFT and to display a surveyable tensorial representation of6-dimensional Einstein's connection in terms of the unified field tensor, employing the powerful recurrence relations of the third kind obtained in the first paper [2].All considerations in this paper are restricted to the first and second classes of the6-dimensional generalized Riemannian manifoldX6, since the case of the third class, the simplest case, was already studied by many authors.

scholarly journals ‘It’s Something Posh People Do’: Digital Distinction in Young People’s Cross-Media News Engagement

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jannie Møller Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Cross Media

In this article, I analyse digital distinction mechanisms in young people’s cross media engagement with news. Using a combination of open online diaries and qualitative interviews with young Danes aged 15 to 18 who differ in social background and education, and with Bourdieu’s field theory as an analytical framework, the article investigates how cultural capital (CC) operates in specific tastes and distastes for news genres, platforms and providers. The article argues that distinction mechanism not only works on the level of news providers and news genres but also on the level of engagement practices—the ways in which people enact and describe their own news engagement practices. Among those rich in CC, physical, analogue objects in the form of newspapers and physical conversations about news are seen as ‘better’ that digital ones, resulting in a feeling of guilt when they mostly engage with news on social media. Secondly, young people with lower CC discard legacy news, which they see as elitist and irrelevant. Thirdly, those rich in CC are media and news genre savvy in the sense that it makes them able to critically evaluate the news they engage with across platforms and sites.

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