Kevin G Barnhurst
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 299812 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kevin G Barnhurst |
| NOMBRES | Kevin G |
| APELLIDO | Barnhurst |
| FIRMA | BARNHURST K G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 199 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Time, realism, news
News time has since the late 19th century moved away from storytelling to embrace modern progress. But time in news is elusive. The digital era splinters time, leaving news practice and research behind. A project to track US news into the 21st century documents a history of time in news: the realism of ‘who’, ‘where’, and ‘what’ declined, and the modernism contexts of ‘when’ and ‘why’ expanded. All five Ws moved contrary to expectation. Modernism…
Visual Studies
Formal theories reveal a visual dimension underlying better known picture theories. Patterns of elements such as lines, shapes, and spaces, along with their properties, generate emotional responses and follow visual styles in society. The elements combine into systems that create perspectives on the world. Formal awareness may generate an understanding of visual philosophies and their inherent values and consequences. Picture theories start from …
Mister Pulitzer and the Spider
A spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly changed people, places, time, and their meanings. A prime case is the news. Digital webs seem to have trapped “legacy media,” killing off newspapers and journalists' jobs. Did news businesses and careers fall prey to the digital “Spider”? To solve the mystery, the author spent thirty years studying news going back to the realism of the 1800s. The usual suspects—technology, business competiti…
Tweets and Truth
Extending a long-term study of three print newspapers from 1894 to 1994, the third in a series of studies shows electronic editions adapting to the online environment. The newspapers did not reinvent themselves online in 2001, instead reproducing the forms of print as a way to continue established relationships with readers. But readers were changing, and by 2005 the Web editions had shifted the form from mapping content to managing the reading e…
Contradictions in news epistemology
The rise of interpretive news opened a gap between journalism and what people need from news. Modern journalism aims to provide a mature explanation for what happened, insight into what will come next, and a repeatable performance by reporters. With events placed in context, the public can pursue future action based on expert reporting. But US news has mainly proved callow, fallible, and hasty, despite a century of change. Reflections on a projec…
The Problem of Realist Events in American Journalism
Since the nineteenth century, more kinds of news outlets and ways of presenting news grew along with telegraphic, telephonic, and digital communications, leading journalists, policymakers, and critics to assume that more events became available than ever before. Attentive audiences say in surveys that they feel overloaded with information, and journalists tend to agree. Although news seems to have become more focused on events, several studies an…
Trajectories
When the Journalism Studies Interest Group of the International Communication Association was formed in pre-Katrina New Orleans in 2004, online journalism looked very much like offline journalism. Yes, content was available on a computer screen rather than on a piece of paper or over the airwaves. But otherwise, it was much the same: produced by a news organization, dominated by text, consumed but not created by an audience. By the time the inter…
The Rise of the Professional Communicator
Professionalism became an ideal for organizing work in the nineteenth‐century United States and reached communication occupations by century's end. Its rise continued an early modern tradition that embodied knowledge in specialists engaged at universities and in practical projects. A sociology of professions emerged by the twentieth century to describe their characteristics, a useful template for professionalism in communication and applied to ne…
Newspapers experiment online
Mainstream US newspapers since the 1890s moved away from event-centered news of local persons and places and toward interpretative news of more distant issues, a trend called the new long journalism that continued when the press moved online. By the mid-2000s social media and web interactivity were common, and print news had not yet entered the profitability and jobs crisis-to-come. A study in 2005 replicates and extends the baseline measures of …
Subjective Posture and Subjective Affluence
To further understanding of how individuals experience media and political systems, this article compares a project in the Chicago sociology tradition to concepts from Bourdieu's field theory and practical reason. Limited life history documents from Chicago working-class and more-advantaged young adults illustrate two interactionist concepts, subjective posture, one's stance toward media and politics, and subjective affluence, the range of empowe…
The Problem of Modern Time in American Journalism 1
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/156852411X595297 KronoScope 11:1-2 (2011) 98-123 brill.nl/kron The Problem of Modern Time in American Journalism 1 Kevin G. Barnhurst Department of Communication (MC-132), 1007 W. Harrison St. BSB 1148A University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607-7137 [email protected] Abstract American life seems pressed for time, and journalists claim they must focus on the now because of competition and …
The Form of Reports on Us Newspaper Internet Sites, an Update
A previous study found that US newspaper electronic editions did not appear to reinvent themselves. In 2001, the Web versions reproduced the substance of print editions so as to relate similarly to readers. A replication of the study shows that by 2005 the online editions were changing, especially in the form of news. For readers, the laborious process involved in using the Internet editions in 2001 had changed, but many clicks and scrolls had sh…
Controlling Nature
Since discovering the shrinking politician sound-bite, researchers have shown that TV news grew more journalist-centered since the 1960s. To explore how far journalistic authority extends, this study turns to the weather. It examines local coverage weekday mornings on three local stations before a national convention. Close qualitative reading, supplemented by content coding, compares weather rhetoric, tone, and style during segments. Weathercast…
Mapping Visual Studies in Communication
This essay documents the main currents of visual studies in communication. After a brief history of the emergence of the field, we review the record of published research in books and journals during the past 5 years, identifying major strains of theory, key issues, and topical categories. We then apply the strains of thought to classify papers presented at the ICA conferences, noting patterns and shifts across and within ICA divisions and intere…
Democracy and the News
News form and the media environment
US newspapers did not assume their modern form until well into the 20th century. Through the 1880s, all but the largest metropolitan dailies limited themselves to four pages in length and featured very little illustration. Until the 1920s, most dailies crowded dozens of items on their front pages, producing a Darwinian struggle for the citizen’s attention. By the 1960s, newspapers came to look fully modern, with all the cues of expert explanation…
US newspaper types, the newsroom, and the division of labor, 1750–2000
This article develops our argument in The Form of News, which explored the development of the press as a repository of material and imagined relationships, by focusing on newswork and the emergence of the newsroom. Our aim is to sketch elements of a history of newswork within the broader context of a history of newspapers. After summarizing a series of newspaper types in US history, we locate the development of modern newsrooms and newswork withi…
Queer political news
The American press no longer reports events but explains them, inadvertently enhancing the cultural authority of journalists. To discover how a prominent news provider exercises influence over political discussion, this case study analyzes National Public Radio (NPR) political coverage of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) communities. Reports increased in length and number during elections and the tone of LGBT reporting grew mor…
The Makers of Meaning
U.S. news media have seen the simultaneous shrinking of political sound bites and audience ratings in the past quarter century. The news also shifted away from event-centered coverage, instead emphasizing reporters and their opinions in what has been called the new long journalism. To observe the depth of these trends, this case study looks at a potential exception to the rule: National Public Radio. Since the late 1970s, its flagship news progra…
The Form of News
"This book offers a fresh perspective on the history of newspapers in the United States. Although most scholars think the newspaper works through its content, this history looks deeper into form: ways of writing; systems of organization; and genres of presentation, including typography, space, and pictures. It explores both how we see newspapers and how newspapers imagine us - as citizens, voters, consumers, and spectators."--BOOK JACKET.
Beyond Modernism
After reviewing the emergence of online newspapers, we offer observations based on historical and design analyses of major US sites, supplemented top-down by innovators in the Americas and Europe and bottom-up by sites serving one locality in Massachusetts. Despite losing typical print elements, the late modern designs emphasize text, with minimal multimedia content, especially on local sites. Instead of giving outlet to news handicraft, corporat…
Young citizens, American TV newscasts and the collective memory
Using a life history method and comparing results with earlier research on newspapers, we examine college students’ life experiences with television news, particularly those related to its role in citizenship. Results show differences in how television news is understood and used by gender, age, ethnicity. The research suggests a fundamental reevaluation of that role is necessary
Politics in the fine meshes
Surveys exposing an uninformed public, journalism emphasizing interpretations, and news focused on showmanship have combined to change public life. As young adults abandon news, what do they substitute to become informed citizens? Life history narratives offer some answers. Young citizens form their political identities within personal networks, responding first to fiction television in the family and with peers. Their stories take place in small…
American Journalism and the Decline in Event-Centered Reporting
The definition of news has changed in the 20th century. Content analysis of the traditional five Ws in three American newspapers found that stories grew longer, included more analysis, expanded from specific locations to broader regions, placed more emphasis on time frames other than the present, and named fewer individuals and more groups, officials, and outside sources. These trends affected each newspaper's coverage of three topics: crimes, ac…
Image-Bite News
Presidential election reports have grown faster paced and more visual: Journalists now appear more frequently and dramatically on screen, and other images and video clips have multiplied. This transformation of network visual practices parallels the shift to sound-bite content, emphasizing journalists over the political process, with implications for the public interest
Newspapers and citizenship
American newspaper executives and conservative critics complain that young adults who don't read newspapers and lack a knowledge of basic facts may be unprepared to become informed citizens. Studies also correlate newspaper reading with political interest. Young readers, who begin with comics and turn to newspapers for entertainment, do not find political news meaningful. This study explored what the newspaper means to young adults. Some 164 coll…
US newspaper types, the newsroom, and the division of labor, 1750–2000
This article develops our argument in The Form of News, which explored the development of the press as a repository of material and imagined relationships, by focusing on newswork and the emergence of the newsroom. Our aim is to sketch elements of a history of newswork within the broader context of a history of newspapers. After summarizing a series of newspaper types in US history, we locate the development of modern newsrooms and newswork withi…
The Problem of Modern Time in American Journalism 1
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/156852411X595297 KronoScope 11:1-2 (2011) 98-123 brill.nl/kron The Problem of Modern Time in American Journalism 1 Kevin G. Barnhurst Department of Communication (MC-132), 1007 W. Harrison St. BSB 1148A University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607-7137 [email protected] Abstract American life seems pressed for time, and journalists claim they must focus on the now because of competition and …
Image-Bite News
Presidential election reports have grown faster paced and more visual: Journalists now appear more frequently and dramatically on screen, and other images and video clips have multiplied. This transformation of network visual practices parallels the shift to sound-bite content, emphasizing journalists over the political process, with implications for the public interest
The Makers of Meaning
U.S. news media have seen the simultaneous shrinking of political sound bites and audience ratings in the past quarter century. The news also shifted away from event-centered coverage, instead emphasizing reporters and their opinions in what has been called the new long journalism. To observe the depth of these trends, this case study looks at a potential exception to the rule: National Public Radio. Since the late 1970s, its flagship news progra…
News form and the media environment
US newspapers did not assume their modern form until well into the 20th century. Through the 1880s, all but the largest metropolitan dailies limited themselves to four pages in length and featured very little illustration. Until the 1920s, most dailies crowded dozens of items on their front pages, producing a Darwinian struggle for the citizen’s attention. By the 1960s, newspapers came to look fully modern, with all the cues of expert explanation…
Queer political news
The American press no longer reports events but explains them, inadvertently enhancing the cultural authority of journalists. To discover how a prominent news provider exercises influence over political discussion, this case study analyzes National Public Radio (NPR) political coverage of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) communities. Reports increased in length and number during elections and the tone of LGBT reporting grew mor…
Newspapers experiment online
Mainstream US newspapers since the 1890s moved away from event-centered news of local persons and places and toward interpretative news of more distant issues, a trend called the new long journalism that continued when the press moved online. By the mid-2000s social media and web interactivity were common, and print news had not yet entered the profitability and jobs crisis-to-come. A study in 2005 replicates and extends the baseline measures of …
Beyond Modernism
After reviewing the emergence of online newspapers, we offer observations based on historical and design analyses of major US sites, supplemented top-down by innovators in the Americas and Europe and bottom-up by sites serving one locality in Massachusetts. Despite losing typical print elements, the late modern designs emphasize text, with minimal multimedia content, especially on local sites. Instead of giving outlet to news handicraft, corporat…
Mister Pulitzer and the Spider
A spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly changed people, places, time, and their meanings. A prime case is the news. Digital webs seem to have trapped “legacy media,” killing off newspapers and journalists' jobs. Did news businesses and careers fall prey to the digital “Spider”? To solve the mystery, the author spent thirty years studying news going back to the realism of the 1800s. The usual suspects—technology, business competiti…
The Form of Reports on Us Newspaper Internet Sites, an Update
A previous study found that US newspaper electronic editions did not appear to reinvent themselves. In 2001, the Web versions reproduced the substance of print editions so as to relate similarly to readers. A replication of the study shows that by 2005 the online editions were changing, especially in the form of news. For readers, the laborious process involved in using the Internet editions in 2001 had changed, but many clicks and scrolls had sh…
Time, realism, news
News time has since the late 19th century moved away from storytelling to embrace modern progress. But time in news is elusive. The digital era splinters time, leaving news practice and research behind. A project to track US news into the 21st century documents a history of time in news: the realism of ‘who’, ‘where’, and ‘what’ declined, and the modernism contexts of ‘when’ and ‘why’ expanded. All five Ws moved contrary to expectation. Modernism…
Trajectories
When the Journalism Studies Interest Group of the International Communication Association was formed in pre-Katrina New Orleans in 2004, online journalism looked very much like offline journalism. Yes, content was available on a computer screen rather than on a piece of paper or over the airwaves. But otherwise, it was much the same: produced by a news organization, dominated by text, consumed but not created by an audience. By the time the inter…
Politics in the fine meshes
Surveys exposing an uninformed public, journalism emphasizing interpretations, and news focused on showmanship have combined to change public life. As young adults abandon news, what do they substitute to become informed citizens? Life history narratives offer some answers. Young citizens form their political identities within personal networks, responding first to fiction television in the family and with peers. Their stories take place in small…
Controlling Nature
Since discovering the shrinking politician sound-bite, researchers have shown that TV news grew more journalist-centered since the 1960s. To explore how far journalistic authority extends, this study turns to the weather. It examines local coverage weekday mornings on three local stations before a national convention. Close qualitative reading, supplemented by content coding, compares weather rhetoric, tone, and style during segments. Weathercast…
Subjective Posture and Subjective Affluence
To further understanding of how individuals experience media and political systems, this article compares a project in the Chicago sociology tradition to concepts from Bourdieu's field theory and practical reason. Limited life history documents from Chicago working-class and more-advantaged young adults illustrate two interactionist concepts, subjective posture, one's stance toward media and politics, and subjective affluence, the range of empowe…
Contemporary Terrorism in Peru
Journal Article Contemporary Terrorism in Peru: Sendero Luminous and the Media Get access Kevin G. Barnhurst Kevin G. Barnhurst 1Kevin G. Barnhurst is Associate Professor of Graphic Arts at the S. I. New house School of Public Communications, Syracuse University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 41, Issue 4, December 1991, Pages 75–89, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.199…
Newspapers and citizenship
American newspaper executives and conservative critics complain that young adults who don't read newspapers and lack a knowledge of basic facts may be unprepared to become informed citizens. Studies also correlate newspaper reading with political interest. Young readers, who begin with comics and turn to newspapers for entertainment, do not find political news meaningful. This study explored what the newspaper means to young adults. Some 164 coll…
Visual Mapping and Cultural Authority
John Nerone, Kevin G. Barnhurst; Visual Mapping and Cultural Authority: Design Changes in U.S. Newspapers, 1920–1940, Journal of Communication, Volume 45
The journalism of opinion
This essay expands the research on sound bites in U.S. presidential campaign coverage by looking at the speech of journalists rather than sources. Using the metaphor of the election report as apolitical conversation among journalists and their sources, the authors apply Bales's categories to discover that journalists have become more dominant, increasing their share of air time in more tightly controlled, faster paced reports. A significant shift…
American Journalism and the Decline in Event-Centered Reporting
The definition of news has changed in the 20th century. Content analysis of the traditional five Ws in three American newspapers found that stories grew longer, included more analysis, expanded from specific locations to broader regions, placed more emphasis on time frames other than the present, and named fewer individuals and more groups, officials, and outside sources. These trends affected each newspaper's coverage of three topics: crimes, ac…
Image-Bite News
Presidential election reports have grown faster paced and more visual: Journalists now appear more frequently and dramatically on screen, and other images and video clips have multiplied. This transformation of network visual practices parallels the shift to sound-bite content, emphasizing journalists over the political process, with implications for the public interest
Young citizens, American TV newscasts and the collective memory
Using a life history method and comparing results with earlier research on newspapers, we examine college students’ life experiences with television news, particularly those related to its role in citizenship. Results show differences in how television news is understood and used by gender, age, ethnicity. The research suggests a fundamental reevaluation of that role is necessary
Politics in the fine meshes
Surveys exposing an uninformed public, journalism emphasizing interpretations, and news focused on showmanship have combined to change public life. As young adults abandon news, what do they substitute to become informed citizens? Life history narratives offer some answers. Young citizens form their political identities within personal networks, responding first to fiction television in the family and with peers. Their stories take place in small…
The Form of News
"This book offers a fresh perspective on the history of newspapers in the United States. Although most scholars think the newspaper works through its content, this history looks deeper into form: ways of writing; systems of organization; and genres of presentation, including typography, space, and pictures. It explores both how we see newspapers and how newspapers imagine us - as citizens, voters, consumers, and spectators."--BOOK JACKET.
Beyond Modernism
After reviewing the emergence of online newspapers, we offer observations based on historical and design analyses of major US sites, supplemented top-down by innovators in the Americas and Europe and bottom-up by sites serving one locality in Massachusetts. Despite losing typical print elements, the late modern designs emphasize text, with minimal multimedia content, especially on local sites. Instead of giving outlet to news handicraft, corporat…
News form and the media environment
US newspapers did not assume their modern form until well into the 20th century. Through the 1880s, all but the largest metropolitan dailies limited themselves to four pages in length and featured very little illustration. Until the 1920s, most dailies crowded dozens of items on their front pages, producing a Darwinian struggle for the citizen’s attention. By the 1960s, newspapers came to look fully modern, with all the cues of expert explanation…
US newspaper types, the newsroom, and the division of labor, 1750–2000
This article develops our argument in The Form of News, which explored the development of the press as a repository of material and imagined relationships, by focusing on newswork and the emergence of the newsroom. Our aim is to sketch elements of a history of newswork within the broader context of a history of newspapers. After summarizing a series of newspaper types in US history, we locate the development of modern newsrooms and newswork withi…
Queer political news
The American press no longer reports events but explains them, inadvertently enhancing the cultural authority of journalists. To discover how a prominent news provider exercises influence over political discussion, this case study analyzes National Public Radio (NPR) political coverage of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) communities. Reports increased in length and number during elections and the tone of LGBT reporting grew mor…
The Makers of Meaning
U.S. news media have seen the simultaneous shrinking of political sound bites and audience ratings in the past quarter century. The news also shifted away from event-centered coverage, instead emphasizing reporters and their opinions in what has been called the new long journalism. To observe the depth of these trends, this case study looks at a potential exception to the rule: National Public Radio. Since the late 1970s, its flagship news progra…
Mapping Visual Studies in Communication
This essay documents the main currents of visual studies in communication. After a brief history of the emergence of the field, we review the record of published research in books and journals during the past 5 years, identifying major strains of theory, key issues, and topical categories. We then apply the strains of thought to classify papers presented at the ICA conferences, noting patterns and shifts across and within ICA divisions and intere…
Democracy and the News
Controlling Nature
Since discovering the shrinking politician sound-bite, researchers have shown that TV news grew more journalist-centered since the 1960s. To explore how far journalistic authority extends, this study turns to the weather. It examines local coverage weekday mornings on three local stations before a national convention. Close qualitative reading, supplemented by content coding, compares weather rhetoric, tone, and style during segments. Weathercast…
The Form of Reports on Us Newspaper Internet Sites, an Update
A previous study found that US newspaper electronic editions did not appear to reinvent themselves. In 2001, the Web versions reproduced the substance of print editions so as to relate similarly to readers. A replication of the study shows that by 2005 the online editions were changing, especially in the form of news. For readers, the laborious process involved in using the Internet editions in 2001 had changed, but many clicks and scrolls had sh…
Subjective Posture and Subjective Affluence
To further understanding of how individuals experience media and political systems, this article compares a project in the Chicago sociology tradition to concepts from Bourdieu's field theory and practical reason. Limited life history documents from Chicago working-class and more-advantaged young adults illustrate two interactionist concepts, subjective posture, one's stance toward media and politics, and subjective affluence, the range of empowe…
The Problem of Modern Time in American Journalism 1
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/156852411X595297 KronoScope 11:1-2 (2011) 98-123 brill.nl/kron The Problem of Modern Time in American Journalism 1 Kevin G. Barnhurst Department of Communication (MC-132), 1007 W. Harrison St. BSB 1148A University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607-7137 [email protected] Abstract American life seems pressed for time, and journalists claim they must focus on the now because of competition and …
The Rise of the Professional Communicator
Professionalism became an ideal for organizing work in the nineteenth‐century United States and reached communication occupations by century's end. Its rise continued an early modern tradition that embodied knowledge in specialists engaged at universities and in practical projects. A sociology of professions emerged by the twentieth century to describe their characteristics, a useful template for professionalism in communication and applied to ne…
Newspapers experiment online
Mainstream US newspapers since the 1890s moved away from event-centered news of local persons and places and toward interpretative news of more distant issues, a trend called the new long journalism that continued when the press moved online. By the mid-2000s social media and web interactivity were common, and print news had not yet entered the profitability and jobs crisis-to-come. A study in 2005 replicates and extends the baseline measures of …
The Problem of Realist Events in American Journalism
Since the nineteenth century, more kinds of news outlets and ways of presenting news grew along with telegraphic, telephonic, and digital communications, leading journalists, policymakers, and critics to assume that more events became available than ever before. Attentive audiences say in surveys that they feel overloaded with information, and journalists tend to agree. Although news seems to have become more focused on events, several studies an…
Trajectories
When the Journalism Studies Interest Group of the International Communication Association was formed in pre-Katrina New Orleans in 2004, online journalism looked very much like offline journalism. Yes, content was available on a computer screen rather than on a piece of paper or over the airwaves. But otherwise, it was much the same: produced by a news organization, dominated by text, consumed but not created by an audience. By the time the inter…
Tweets and Truth
Extending a long-term study of three print newspapers from 1894 to 1994, the third in a series of studies shows electronic editions adapting to the online environment. The newspapers did not reinvent themselves online in 2001, instead reproducing the forms of print as a way to continue established relationships with readers. But readers were changing, and by 2005 the Web editions had shifted the form from mapping content to managing the reading e…
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