scholarly journals The Journalistic Field in a Time of Mediatization

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
Shed Light

The rise of digital technologies is having a profound impact on the practice and profession of journalism. As a consequence, scholars from a variety of disciplines have fashioned unique but complimentary perspectives to help explain the nature and significance of this transformation. Field theory is a prominent lens through which media sociologists have viewed the dynamics and transformations surrounding the practice and profession of journalism. More recently, communications scholars have developed theories of mediatization to explain the transformations brought about by the ubiquity of media throughout social life. While Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory offers a well-developed toolkit to address the dialectical relationship between structures and practices, its treatment of technology and conceptualization of the field are arguably less well suited to explain the convergent, hyper-mediated nature of contemporary social relations. By contrast, more recent theories of mediatization offer a less developed and less grandiose conceptualization of specific sociological dynamics, instead opting to shed light on the apparent emergence of a new ‘media logic’. By drawing on the most revealing aspects of each perspective, this paper searches for parity between the two through an examination of a prominent case study: the converging fields of contemporary journalism and activism as seen on Twitter. After reviewing the core components of each perspective and applying them to the case of study, the paper argues for the conceptualization of a mediatized superstructure to explain the ongoing hybridity and convergence across a variety of social fields.

scholarly journals Embodiment of Ancestral Spirits, the Social Interface, and Ritual Ceremonies: Construction of the Shamanic Landscape among the Daur in North China

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 567
Author(s):  
Feng Qu
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
North China ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Interface ◽  
Human Construction ◽  
Human Social Life

The case study in this paper is on the Daur (as well as the Evenki, Buriat, and Bargu Mongols) in Hulun Buir, Northeast China. The aim of this research is to examine how shamanic rituals function as a conduit to actualize communications between the clan members and their shaman ancestors. Through examinations and observations of Daur and other Indigenous shamanic rituals in Northeast China, this paper argues that the human construction of the shamanic landscape brings humans, other-than-humans, and things together into social relations in shamanic ontologies. Inter-human metamorphosis is crucial to Indigenous self-conceptualization and identity. Through rituals, ancestor spirits are active actors involved in almost every aspect of modern human social life among these Indigenous peoples.

Indonesian Religion as a Hybrid Media Space: Social Dramas in a Contested Realm

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 100-123
Author(s):  
John Postill ◽  
Leonard Chrysostomos Epafras
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Current State ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractThe popularity of social media in Indonesia, along with the rise of political Islam, is changing the ways in which people engage with religious matters in the country. In this article, we deploy post-Bourdieuan field theory to explore Indonesia’s religious domain as a ‘hybrid media space’ – a social space mediated by old and new media agents interacting to produce viralized forms of public communication. We undertake this exploration through three viral controversies, or ‘social dramas’, triggered by a perceived breach of the religious space’s order. All three dramas involved political Islamists in contention with various political actors, namely the Muslim senator Fahira Fahmi, the West Sumatran atheist Alexander Aan, and the then governor of Jakarta, ‘Ahok’. These examples shed light on the current state of Indonesia’s religious space and its multiple mediations, as well as taking field theory into new communicative and religious terrain.

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.

Tweeting #Ferguson: Mediatized fields and the new activist journalist

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 2252-2271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Journalistic Field

As a hybrid, journo-activist space, tweeting #Ferguson quickly emerged as a way for activists and journalists to network and spread information. Using a mixed-methods approach combining digital ethnographic content analysis with social network analysis and link analysis, this study examines journalistic and activist uses of Twitter to identify changes in field relations and practices. Employing the lenses of field theory and mediatization, this study finds parity and divergence in the themes, frames, format, and discourse of journalist and activist Twitter practices. While the traditions of objective journalism and affective activism persist, notable exceptions occurred, especially following acts of police suppression. The networked communities of professional and activist Twitter users were overlapping and interactive, suggesting hybridity at the margins of the journalistic field. Given the hybridizing of journalistic and journo-activist practices, this case study examines the role of social media in efforts to report on and bolster social change.

7. Marxism

2020 ◽  
pp. 128-146
Author(s):  
Mark Rupert
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Dialectical Theory ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Social

This chapter examines Marxist theory’s understanding of capitalism as an historically particular way of organizing social life and how Marxism can shed light on complex social relationships through which human beings produce and reproduce their social relations, the natural world, and themselves. It argues that the kind of social organization envisioned by Marxists has political, cultural, and economic dimensions that must be viewed as a dynamic ensemble of social relations not necessarily contained within the territorial boundaries of nation-states. The chapter first provides an overview of historical materialism and the meaning of dialectical theory, with particular emphasis on Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism and the Marxist tradition’s theorizing of imperialism, before discussing Western Marxism and Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony. It then considers Marxist concepts of global power and hegemony and concludes with a case study that highlights the social relations underlying US global militarism.

Emergence and equivocal autonomization of a Kurdish literary field in Turkey

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clémence Scalbert-Yücel
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Political Constraints ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Shed Light

Drawing on field theory, this paper aims to shed light on the development and functioning of the Kurdish literary world in Turkey, characterized, in particular, by the use of a non-official language. It argues that this “small literary world” is to be understood in relation to a “double macrocosm”: the sphere of Kurdish politics and the national Turkish sphere, which provide specific constraints and resources. The paper argues that in such a context the emergence of a literary field, autonomous from other social fields and independent from political stakes, follows an unpredictable path, and will not always be achieved political dimension of the literary act stresses its dependency on political stakes and the field of politics. This however does not impede the emergence of autonomous literary institutions. The multilingualism of the actors involved drives also toward another heteronomy: this small literary world is also to be understood in relation to the Turkish literary field. The paper first presents the macrocosms in which Kurdish literary activities developed. It then examines the progressive integration of a field freeing itself from political constraints. Lastly, it focuses on the trajectories of a few writers, the analyses of which show the intertwining of the different worlds.

scholarly journals SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN PESIMISM AND MODERNIZATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1733-1736
Author(s):  
Abdulnaser Sinani ◽  
Faton Murseli
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Republic

Communication today in both classical and new media has changed not only its way and access to interpersonal communications, but also in social relations. The world today, more than ever before, is in a struggle between classical communications, always overwhelmed by the pessimism of social developments, with new or modernized communications. Many scholars have put forward theories that testify to this war, even in the social context, that they make comparisons or connections of communicationbetween two sides of the Atlantic. The first one is on the sociological plane between European sociology and the second one onAmerican pragmatism. These relate in particular to the claims of the American empirical school and the Frankfurt school as well as to Habermasian and post-Habermasian theories of public space.This paper attempts to highlight this "war" that has a profound social impact on our lifestyles, approaches to various problems, combating misinformation or even harmful political decision-making. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to move away from the negative effects stimulated by this communicological transformation, to show that public action is not merely a passive conformism, to show that society is rational and dynamic, and that there are no externalities or absolute superiority of intellectuals. In addition, the paper will not eliminate the critics of negative phenomens whether they are consequences of shallow thoughts or low interests, or due to the lack of legal regulations in the Balkans and specifically in the Republic of Northern Macedonia, which would condemn the inclusion of negative innovations, misguided, and as consequence harmful to society.The paper will have a positive approach to today's technological developments that affect communication and social life in general. It will be an alarm case for intentional or unintentional deviations, which give alert for wrong decisions that result from sociological deviations in communication. The point of this paper is to presents a basis for study or concern, for this global transformation where local institutional issues have already taken on broad transnational character. In this context, caring for communication, especially its regular social development, would contribute to raising new dimensions of its true ideals of ethnic, political or even religious pluralism, and would represent the true ideal of not abandoning the vision of an open, multidimensional world. These are some of the most sensitive issues in the world, especially the Balkans, which will be approached with a positive and progressive look.This paper will be conducted through the survey method, and the content analysis. The public, especially the educated and critical public in the Republic of Northern Macedonia, as well as some of the traditional media and news portals in RMV, are subject of observation. In addition to the problematic rise that we claim to be world-specific but Balkan-specific, the work will extend to the communicational and sociological reality of the Republic of Northern Macedonia.

scholarly journals PROSES MOBILITAS SOSIAL NELAYAN KECAMATAN PACIRAN (Studi Kasus Komunitas Nelayan di Kecamatan Paciran, Kabupaten Lamongan)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Iin Sulis Setyowati ◽  
Arif Satria ◽  
Titik Sumarti ◽  
Rilus A Kinseng
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Fishing Gear ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Depth Interviews

Kehidupan sosial nelayan di Kecamatan Paciran bersifat terbuka dan memungkinkan terjadinya mobilitas sosial secara vertikal dan horizontal serta relasi sosial yang terjalin antar nelayan. Mobilitas sosial ini terjadi karena adanya perbedaan modal produksi yang dimiliki oleh nelayan seperti armada dan jenis alat tangkap serta pendapatan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji proses mobilitas sosial vertikal dan horizontal nelayan di Kecamatan Paciran. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif. Data primer dan sekunder diperoleh melalui wawancara mendalam, observasi, dokumentasi dan Focus Grup Discussion (FGD). Analisis diskriptif tabulatif digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa, hal yang mendorong nelayan Paciran melakukan mobilitas sosial vertikal keatas yakni karena adanya kemampuan secara finansial (modal) yang didapat dari meminjam kepada patron atau mendapatkan warisan, memiliki keterampilan dan pengetahuan sebagai nelayan serta juga didukung dari segi pendidikan. Sedangkan dalam beberapa kasus ditemui, nelayan mengalami mobilitas sosial vertikal menurun dikarenakan nelayan tersebut mengalami kerugian yang berulang kali dalam hal penangkapan, sehingga tidak memiliki cukup modal untuk melakukan aktivitas penangkapan kembali serta dililit hutang.Title: Social Mobility Process of Fishers in The Paciran Sub Regency (Case Study of Fishers Community in The Paciran Sub Regency, Lamongan Regency)The fishers in Paciran District have an open social life allowing for vertical and horizontal social mobility and social relations that exist between the fishers. This social mobility occurs due to variations in production capital such as fishing fleet, types of fishing gear and income. This study aimed to examine the vertical and horizontal social mobility processes of the fishers in Paciran District. This research used a qualitative method with a study approach. The primary and secondary data were collected through in-depth interviews, observations, documentation and Focus Group Discussion (FGD). Discriptive and tabulatif analysis methods were use in this study. The results showed that upward vertical social mobility impelled by the financial capabilities (capital) which are gained from patron loan or inheritance, good skills and knowledge as a fisher, and education. Meanwhile, some cases showed a downward vertical social mobility due to multiple losses in fishing activities that imposed the fishers to a condition of heavily indebted and lack of capital for more fishing activities.

7. Marxism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Rupert
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Dialectical Theory ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Social

This chapter examines Marxist theory's understanding of capitalism as an historically particular way of organizing social life and how Marxism can shed light on complex social relationships through which human beings produce and reproduce their social relations, the natural world, and themselves. It argues that the kind of social organization envisioned by Marxists has political, cultural, and economic dimensions that must be viewed as a dynamic ensemble of social relations not necessarily contained within the territorial boundaries of nation-states. The chapter first provides an overview of historical materialism and the meaning of dialectical theory, with particular emphasis on Karl Marx's critique of capitalism and the Marxist tradition's theorizing of imperialism, before discussing Western Marxism and Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony. It then considers Marxist concepts of global power and hegemony and concludes with a case study that highlights the social relations underlying U.S. global militarism.

scholarly journals The Journalistic Field and the City: Some Practical and Organizational Tales about the Toronto Star's New Deal for Cities

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Organizational Sociology ◽  
Managerial Authority ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The City

This article presents Pierre Bourdieu's field theory as a way to approach the under–theorized relationship of journalism and the city. The concept of field provides a way to conceive of the conditions of possibility for what journalists do in, through, and in relation to the urban. Bringing this concept together with practice theory and organizational sociology, I examine four practical and organizational tales–two narratives and two episodes–related to the Toronto Star's New Deal for Cities campaign. These tales demonstrate how journalistic practices are not only performed in and distinctively oriented towards urban space, but also are at the same time regulated by, oriented towards, and positioned in the journalistic field. I highlight how journalistic practices take place in multiple organizational sites, through changing regimes of managerial authority and legitimacy, and with shifting positioning in and orientations to the journalistic field and other social fields of the city.

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