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.

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.

The Story Versus the Stream: Digital Media’s Influence on Newspaper Sports Journalism

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Moritz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Process Model ◽  
New Institutional Theory ◽  
Sports Journalism ◽  
Media Sociology ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
Traditional Sports ◽  
Story Selection ◽  
Digital Sports ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study examined contemporary daily sports journalism through the lenses of media sociology and new institutional theory. In-depth interviews with 25 sports journalists (reporters and editors) identified the institutionalized norms, values, practices, and routines of American sports journalism; demonstrated how that institutionalization affects story selection; and showed how the profession is changing due to digital and social media. The interviews show that although traditional sports journalism is highly institutionalized, digital sports journalism is far less so. Traditional sports journalism is still centered around a story, and digital sports journalism follows Robinson’s journalism-as-process model. The journalists interviewed are expected to perform acts of both traditional and digital journalism during the same workday, which leads to tension in how they do their jobs.

Emerson's Atom and the Matter of Suffering

2009 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-47
Author(s):  
Mark Noble
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Classical Field Theory ◽  
Classical Field ◽  
The Other ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Solid Bodies ◽  
Lines Of Force

This essay argues that Ralph Waldo Emerson's interest in the cutting-edge science of his generation helps to shape his understanding of persons as fluid expressions of power rather than solid bodies. In his 1872 "Natural History of Intellect," Emerson correlates the constitution of the individual mind with the tenets of Michael Faraday's classical field theory. For Faraday, experimenting with electromagnetism reveals that the atom is a node or point on a network, and that all matter is really the arrangement of energetic lines of force. This atomic model offers Emerson a technology for envisioning a materialized subjectivity that both unravels personal identity and grants access to impersonal power. On the one hand, adopting Faraday's field theory resonates with many of the affirmative philosophical and ethical claims central to Emerson's early essays. On the other hand, however, distributing the properties of Faraday's atoms onto the properties of the person also entails moments in which materialized subjects encounter their own partiality, limitation, and suffering. I suggest that Emerson represents these aspects of experience in terms that are deliberately discrepant from his conception of universal power. He presumes that if every experience boils down to the same lines of force, then the particular can be trivialized with respect to the general. As a consequence, Emerson must insulate his philosophical assertions from contamination by our most poignant experiences of limitation. The essay concludes by distinguishing Emersonian "Necessity" from Friedrich Nietzsche's similar conception of amor fati, which routes the affirmation of fate directly through suffering.

Ecological field theory model: a mechanistic approach to simulate plant–plant interactions in southeastern forest ecosystems

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 2180-2193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pu Mou ◽  
Robert J. Mitchell ◽  
Robert H. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Loblolly Pine ◽  
Vegetation Dynamics ◽  
Plant Size ◽  
Theory Model ◽  
Plant Interactions ◽  
Simulation Accuracy ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Plant Plant

Ecological field theory, unlike many other vegetation modeling approaches, provides a basis to construct an individually based, spatially explicit, and resource-mediated model for mechanistic simulation of plant–plant interactions and vegetation dynamics. The model REGROW has been developed, based on ecological field theory principles, to simulate vegetation dynamics for northern hardwood forests. Using data from a current study of a southern pine system to calibrate a modified version of this model, SPGROW, we simulated growth of individuals for the first growing season in stands of loblolly pine (Pinustaeda L.) and sweetgum (Liquidambarstyraciflua L.) seedlings and loblolly pine seedling–sweetgum sprout mixtures. SPGROW accurately simulated stand development at population and stand levels. However, less agreement occurred at the individual level between simulated and field survey values, possibly owing to lack of data on site heterogeneity and genetic variation. Plant interactions, which altered resource availability (light, water, and nutrients) to individual plants, played a major role in differentiating plant size in the model. Given its unique model structure and simulation accuracy, SPGROW has the potential to provide very detailed insight into the mechanisms of plant–plant interactions.

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 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.

Electrostatic effects on conformational equilibria: Solvation enthalpies and the reaction field theory

1984 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 2050-2069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Friedl ◽  
Pavel Fiedler ◽  
Ján Biroš ◽  
Věra Uchytilová ◽  
Igor Tvaroška ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
Quantum Chemical ◽  
Present Theory ◽  
Coulombic Interaction ◽  
Reaction Field ◽  
Considerable Uncertainty ◽  
Quantum Chemical Methods ◽  
Homogenous Medium ◽  
The Individual

Solvation enthalpies of isomeric methyl 2-, 3-, and 4-fluorobenzoates in solvents n-hexane and nitromethane were determined calorimetrically. The enthalpy of the conformational equilibrium ap ⇌ sp of methyl 2-fluorobenzoate was estimated from the temperature dependence of IR spectra and served to calculate the solvation enthalpies of the two conformers, although with a considerable uncertainty. All the results together were discussed in terms of two theories: a) the simple electrostatic approach predicting the reaction enthalphy from the coulombic interaction of atomic charges in an apparently homogenous medium, and b) the extended reaction-field theory expressing the solvation energy as a sum of dipole, quadrupole, cavity, and dispersion terms. In addition, quantum chemical calculations on various levels were carried out. Comparison with experiments revealed that the reaction-field theory, even if extended, reproduces only the general trend in the solvation enthalpies. Of the individual terms particularly the dispersion term is likely to be responsible for the bad fit: it is significant but cannot be satisfactorily predicted by the present theory. Also cavity term is mispresented by theory while it is in fact unimportant for isomeric molecules. The simple electrostatic approach predicts the reaction enthalpy in the gas phase relatively well, i.e. with a similar precision as semiempirical quantum chemical methods. In solvents this approach works worse, but still better than a two-step calculation consisting of the electrostatic gas-phase value and of the reaction-field solvation enthalpy; the latter procedure cannot be generally recommended. Summarizing, our results are in favour of simple theories which yield approximate results of the same quality as the more sophisticated ones, sometimes even better.

scholarly journals Application Research of “Field” Theory in the Problem of Colleges and Universities Innovation Team Aggregation

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
HongJing Liang ◽  
JinSheng Liu ◽  
Rong Wang ◽  
YaQin Song ◽  
YuanYuan Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Growth Factor ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Application Research ◽  
Growth Path ◽  
Academic Leaders ◽  
Innovation Teams ◽  
Virtuous Cycle ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Innovation Team

Based on the field theory in physics, the thesis applies model construction and other methods to apply the research on the agglomeration problem of colleges’ and universities’ innovation teams and constructs the growth field model of colleges’ and universities’ innovation teams. The conclusions show that the “growth field” of the colleges’ and universities’ innovation team is composed of two elements: “hidden growth factor” and “dominant growth factor,” which have the directional and force acting; if the growth force is more powerful than the resistance, the team growth will move forward along the growth path; if the resultant force is greater than the power, it will enter the recession or be stagnant in advance. The growth path is different in the magnitude and direction of the force at each stage, and the growth path of the individual members of the team and the team as a whole is also different; there is agglomeration in the growth field, and the excellent academic leaders are particularly important. It is a process in which the field forces overlap each other, which will form a situation of continuous agglomeration and a virtuous cycle of interaction and find out the ways to integrate and enhance the ability of colleges’ and universities’ innovation teams under the field effect, in order to achieve the goal of attracting talents to join, optimizing and integrating within the team, improving the overall ability of the team, and increasing outputs.

Adoption of Innovations in Digital Sports Journalism: The Use of Twitter by German Sports Journalists

2020 ◽  
pp. 216747952096178
Author(s):  
Inga Oelrichs
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Innovation Theory ◽  
Sports Journalism ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation Theory ◽  
Adoption Of Innovations ◽  
Twitter User ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Digital Sports ◽  
German Association

Based on the fact that Twitter penetration in Germany is comparatively low this study analyzes the adoption of Twitter by German sports journalists. It questions how far influences on adoption that were proven to be important in the well-established diffusion of innovation theory can help to explain the Twitter usage among sports journalists. As influences for circumstances of adoption, the type of innovation decision and communication channels are identified. In addition, perceived attributes of Twitter concerning relative advantages, compatibility with norms and values and complexity are specified. A representative online survey with members of the German Association for Sports Journalists reveals that many sports journalists are reluctant concerning Twitter usage. Three Twitter user types were identified: Non-users, Occasional Information Seekers, and Regular Active Users. These user types differed clearly in terms of the circumstances of adoption: management decisions and the adoption by near peers favor the usage of Twitter. Further, compatibility and complexity are influential. For relative advantages, surprisingly, results are less distinct. Overall, this study shows that the diffusion of innovation theory is a helpful approach to explain Twitter usage in German sports journalism and advocates its application for the adoption of other digital innovations in sports journalism.

Quantum tetrahedral mean-field theory of the pyrochlore lattice

2001 ◽  
Vol 79 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 1359-1364 ◽  
Author(s):  
A J García-Adeva ◽  
D L Huber
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Mean Field Theory ◽  
Mean Field ◽  
Magnetic Susceptibility Data ◽  
Susceptibility Data ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Magnetic Ions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Good Agreement

A quantum mean-field theory of the pyrochlore lattice is presented. The starting point is not the individual magnetic ions, as in the usual Curie-Weiss mean-field theory, but a set of interacting corner-sharing tetrahedra. We check the consistency of the model against magnetic susceptibility data and find a good agreement between the theoretical predictions and the experimental data. Implications of the model and future extensions are also discussed. PACS Nos.: 75.10Jm, 75.30Cr, 75.40Cx

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