Elizabeth Butler Breese

Biographic Data

ID109224
NAMEElizabeth Butler Breese
GIVEN NAMESElizabeth Butler
FAMILY NAMEBreese
SIGNATUREBREESE E B
AFFILIATIONSYale University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX2

  • The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Future

    Open AccessMaría Luengo Cruz, Jeffrey C Alexander et al.BOOKCrisis of Journalism Reconsidered2016

    This collection of original essays brings a dramatically different perspective to bear on the contemporary 'crisis of journalism'. Rather than seeing technological and economic change as the primary causes of current anxieties, The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered draws attention to the role played by the cultural commitments of journalism itself. Linking these professional ethics to the democratic aspirations of the broader societies in which j…

  • Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Future

    Elizabeth Butler Breese, Jeffrey C Alexander et al.BOOKCrisis of Journalism Reconsidered2016

  • The perpetual crisis of journalism: Cable and digital revolutions

    Open AccessElizabeth Butler BreeseCHAPTERCrisis of Journalism Reconsidered2016

    The crisis of journalism in the United States is a perpetual crisis. Current articulations of crisis claim that the digital era introduces new and urgent problems to journalism. The crisis of American journalism is articulated through a narrative of decline that warns that the future of journalism will be worse than the past. However, the discourse of crisis and grave doubts about the future of professional journalism are not new. Today and in pr…

  • The Perpetual Crisis of Journalism: Cable and Digital Revolutions

    Open AccessElizabeth Butler BreeseARTICLEFudan Journal of the Humanities…2015

  • When Marketers and Academics Share a Research Platform: The Story of Crimson Hexagon

    Open AccessElizabeth Butler BreeseARTICLEJournal of Applied Social Science2015

    Social media represents a new data source for marketers and academic researchers to access and analyze the changing opinions and attitudes of large groups around the globe. Without the delay or cost of traditional research methods, social media analytics offer a new pathway to answer pressing research questions in both contexts. This address, delivered at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology 2014 Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, out…

  • Mapping the Variety of Public Spheres

    Open AccessElizabeth Butler BreeseARTICLECommunication Theory2011Cited by: 14References: 8

    Journal Article Mapping the Variety of Public Spheres Get access Elizabeth Butler Breese Elizabeth Butler Breese 1Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 21, Issue 2, May 2011, Pages 130–149, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01379.x Published: 08 April 2011

  • Reports from "Backstage" in Entertainment News

    Open AccessElizabeth Butler BreeseARTICLESociety2010Cited by: 2References: 6

  • Meaning, Celebrity, and the Underage Pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears

    Open AccessElizabeth Butler BreeseARTICLECultural Sociology2010Cited by: 7References: 7

    This article argues that the focus of previous literature on the economic and psychological aspects of the celebrity system unduly restricts our understanding of the social phenomenon of celebrity. Celebrities are commodities to be sure, but previous scholars have largely failed to explore the ways in which celebrities are also symbols. Celebrities are a locus of meaning-making in the contemporary USA. Using the case of Jamie Lynn Spears's 2007-8…