Tyler Leeds
Biographic Data
| ID | 317249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tyler Leeds |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tyler |
| FAMILY NAME | Leeds |
| SIGNATURE | LEEDS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9393-1493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The 1619 Project Moral Panic: The Role of Cable News
The U.S. right is in the throes of a moral panic over the study of race and racism in schools. This panic developed in part through the backlash to the 1619 Project, an effort by the New York Times to reframe American history around the legacy of slavery. How was a publication with anti-racist ambitions co-opted by a movement to reject the teaching of anti-racism? I argue that a key element is cable news coverage of the 1619 Project, which over a…
Stuart Hall's Relational Political Sociology: A Heuristic for Right-Wing Studies
Since 2016, there has been a flood of research on the US right spanning disciplines and methodologies. This article theorizes a conceptual heuristic drawn from the writing of Stuart Hall to integrate this scholarship. To make the case for what I term Hall’s political sociology, I stage a dialogue with Arlie Hochschild, whose 2016 ethnography Strangers in Their Own Land has become a classic in the literature. While both Hall and Hochschild stress …
The influencer-intellectual tactic and social media advertisements: How PragerU advances partisan knowledge
Right-wing think tanks are a major source of partisan knowledge. Their influence is rooted in their strategic hybridity, namely their ability to use the resources of fields outside politics to promote their partisan messages. This strategic hybridity is especially powerful in relation to the academy, as arguments can be framed with the trappings of scholarship without first passing muster in the scholarly community. This article documents how str…
The Bio-Habitus: Using Pain Science to Reconstruct Bourdieusian Theory
Habitus is society inscribed on the body, but Bourdieu does not explore how biological processes interact with habitus, namely, how action flows from a bio-habitus. I engage pain science to illustrate this point. First, I document how dispositions-specific components of habitus-mediate pain both before and after its onset. Second, I explain how pain alters cognition and affect, an interaction I contend inhibits the habitus. Far from placing the b…
The Journalistic Field in the Platform Economy: The New York Times and the Inverted Pyramid
Bourdieu's field theory has become a key heuristic for studying the impact of the market on American journalism, but this approach has not been employed to analyze the consequences of a technology-driven decline in advertising revenue. To understand this change and update the commercial critique of journalism, I extend the emerging Bourdieusian historical research program to chart transformations in the market's heteronomous effects on journalism…
Now more than ever: Citams's contributions to a pandemic society
Each year the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association curates a special issue highlighting sociological contributions to technology and media studies. That tradition continued in 2020, even as everything else changed. The articles included in this year’s special issue were mostly written pre-Pandemic, yet their implications seem amplified by the current historical moment. With …
The State Schema: Seeing Politics through Morality and Capacity
The Bio-Habitus: Using Pain Science to Reconstruct Bourdieusian Theory
Habitus is society inscribed on the body, but Bourdieu does not explore how biological processes interact with habitus, namely, how action flows from a bio-habitus. I engage pain science to illustrate this point. First, I document how dispositions-specific components of habitus-mediate pain both before and after its onset. Second, I explain how pain alters cognition and affect, an interaction I contend inhibits the habitus. Far from placing the b…
The State Schema: Seeing Politics through Morality and Capacity
The 1619 Project Moral Panic: The Role of Cable News
The U.S. right is in the throes of a moral panic over the study of race and racism in schools. This panic developed in part through the backlash to the 1619 Project, an effort by the New York Times to reframe American history around the legacy of slavery. How was a publication with anti-racist ambitions co-opted by a movement to reject the teaching of anti-racism? I argue that a key element is cable news coverage of the 1619 Project, which over a…
The Journalistic Field in the Platform Economy: The New York Times and the Inverted Pyramid
Bourdieu's field theory has become a key heuristic for studying the impact of the market on American journalism, but this approach has not been employed to analyze the consequences of a technology-driven decline in advertising revenue. To understand this change and update the commercial critique of journalism, I extend the emerging Bourdieusian historical research program to chart transformations in the market's heteronomous effects on journalism…
The State Schema: Seeing Politics through Morality and Capacity
Now more than ever: Citams's contributions to a pandemic society
Each year the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association curates a special issue highlighting sociological contributions to technology and media studies. That tradition continued in 2020, even as everything else changed. The articles included in this year’s special issue were mostly written pre-Pandemic, yet their implications seem amplified by the current historical moment. With …
The Journalistic Field in the Platform Economy: The New York Times and the Inverted Pyramid
Bourdieu's field theory has become a key heuristic for studying the impact of the market on American journalism, but this approach has not been employed to analyze the consequences of a technology-driven decline in advertising revenue. To understand this change and update the commercial critique of journalism, I extend the emerging Bourdieusian historical research program to chart transformations in the market's heteronomous effects on journalism…
Stuart Hall's Relational Political Sociology: A Heuristic for Right-Wing Studies
Since 2016, there has been a flood of research on the US right spanning disciplines and methodologies. This article theorizes a conceptual heuristic drawn from the writing of Stuart Hall to integrate this scholarship. To make the case for what I term Hall’s political sociology, I stage a dialogue with Arlie Hochschild, whose 2016 ethnography Strangers in Their Own Land has become a classic in the literature. While both Hall and Hochschild stress …
The influencer-intellectual tactic and social media advertisements: How PragerU advances partisan knowledge
Right-wing think tanks are a major source of partisan knowledge. Their influence is rooted in their strategic hybridity, namely their ability to use the resources of fields outside politics to promote their partisan messages. This strategic hybridity is especially powerful in relation to the academy, as arguments can be framed with the trappings of scholarship without first passing muster in the scholarly community. This article documents how str…
The Bio-Habitus: Using Pain Science to Reconstruct Bourdieusian Theory
Habitus is society inscribed on the body, but Bourdieu does not explore how biological processes interact with habitus, namely, how action flows from a bio-habitus. I engage pain science to illustrate this point. First, I document how dispositions-specific components of habitus-mediate pain both before and after its onset. Second, I explain how pain alters cognition and affect, an interaction I contend inhibits the habitus. Far from placing the b…
The 1619 Project Moral Panic: The Role of Cable News
The U.S. right is in the throes of a moral panic over the study of race and racism in schools. This panic developed in part through the backlash to the 1619 Project, an effort by the New York Times to reframe American history around the legacy of slavery. How was a publication with anti-racist ambitions co-opted by a movement to reject the teaching of anti-racism? I argue that a key element is cable news coverage of the 1619 Project, which over a…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works)