Ida Willig
Biographic Data
| ID | 382067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ida Willig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ida |
| FAMILY NAME | Willig |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIG I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2211-1740 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Changing Forms of Ownership in a Democratic Corporatist Media System - How Digitalization Leads to Less Transparency and the Risk of Media Capture
Digitalization has led to a crisis in news media and an upheaval in media ownership. A research concern has been that the motives driving media owners will shift from financial and public service to overtly political and ideological. The term "media capture" has been suggested to describe how various interests may take control over news media outlets. This paper adds to the study of digitalization and media ownership in three ways. First, our ana…
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry
Media agencies have become one of the key actors in the contemporary media industry: by channelling marketing budgets to some media and some platforms and not to others, media agencies play an important role in creating the digital media infrastructure and laying the tracks of the public sphere. Yet we know very little about these commercial middlemen between advertisers and audiences, what they do, and how we should understand their role in the …
What is ‘Good’ Climate Journalism? Public Perceptions of Climate Journalism in Denmark
Climate change is at the top of the public agenda, but researchers argue that climate journalism needs to be improved. However, knowledge of the public’s perceptions of and expectations for climate journalism is limited. We asked a representative sample of the Danish public (N = 2,028) about their views on climate journalism. The results showed that most respondents regarded climate journalism as important but found it less trustworthy and of low…
From Government Office to Private PR: Career Patterns of Special Ministerial Advisers and the Privatization of Politics
This article presents a study on special ministerial advisers examining their careers beyond their role in the machinery of government. Applying a theoretical framework derived from the literature on the sociology of work and the transformation of the organization of politics in the Nordic welfare states, we make two theoretical points. First, special advisers are part of an emerging group of partisan policy professionals, and second, the charact…
Ideals of Journalism The historical Consecration of Media Capital in Prize Awards and the case of the Danish Cavling award 1945–2016
As a material object, the Cavling prize is a small bronze statuette of an old man with a moustache, a hat and both hands tucked away in the pockets of a long coat. In symbolic terms, the Cavling prize is one of the most prestigious awards of Danish journalism and a professional metonym for excellent journalism. This article presents a study of the written statements from the prize committees that have accompanied the statue since the first award …
Field Theory and Media Production: A Bridge-Building Strategy
Pierre Bourdieu’s book On Television (1998a), which was published in French in 1996, was an essayistic and critical analysis of the French journalistic field, of the power of journalism and journalists and of the professional ideology guiding the journalistic field, such as a constant drive for ‘scoops’. Before that, Bourdieu had not been addressing media production specifically but had worked with more general questions of cultural production an…
Field theory approaches to new media practices: An introduction and some theoretical considerations
In this article introducing the theme of the special issue we argue that studies of new media practices might benefit from especially Pierre Bourdieu's research on cultural production. We introduce some of the literature, which deals with the use of digital media, and which have taken steps to develop field theory in this context. Secondly, we present the four thematic articles in this issue and the articles outside the theme, which includes two …
Media Systems Online and Off: Comparing the Form of News in the United States, Denmark, and France
This study examines how media system differences in the form of news change or stay the same as newspapers in the United States (liberal), Denmark (democratic corporatist), and France (polarized pluralist) move from print to online. Internet technological affordances are posited to move online news toward more advertising and information (liberal model) and more opinion and deliberation (polarized pluralist model). In the liberal direction, adver…
Newsroom ethnography in a field perspective
The reflexive sociology of Pierre Bourdieu offers a promising analytical framework for extending the insights offered by the classical tradition of ethnographic newsroom studies. On a methodological level, Bourdieu’s analytical framework has the potential to help us address one of the key questions in ethnographic research: how should we theorise and empirically investigate context? The question is, not least, practical in nature. When it comes t…
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Constructing the audience: A study of segmentation in the Danish press
No more than twenty years ago, the doors between the newsrooms and the marketing departments of Danish newspapers were tightly shut. Today, all major Danish newspapers work with reader profiles using marketing data to create journalistic concepts. This article identifies two dominant reader constructions in policy papers of Danish newspapers: the reader-as-citizen, which can be traced back to the late 1940s, and the reader-as-consumer, visible in…
The Nordic Journalists of Tomorrow: An Exploration of First Year Journalism Students in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
The present article summarizes the findings of a survey among first-year journalism students in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. The survey covers a wide array of subjects including social recruitment, motivation for studying journalism, preferences regarding future journalistic working life, views on the role of journalism in society, attitudes toward the profession, journalistic ideals and ideas about what are the most important traits for …
Newsroom ethnography in a field perspective
The reflexive sociology of Pierre Bourdieu offers a promising analytical framework for extending the insights offered by the classical tradition of ethnographic newsroom studies. On a methodological level, Bourdieu’s analytical framework has the potential to help us address one of the key questions in ethnographic research: how should we theorise and empirically investigate context? The question is, not least, practical in nature. When it comes t…
Media Systems Online and Off: Comparing the Form of News in the United States, Denmark, and France
This study examines how media system differences in the form of news change or stay the same as newspapers in the United States (liberal), Denmark (democratic corporatist), and France (polarized pluralist) move from print to online. Internet technological affordances are posited to move online news toward more advertising and information (liberal model) and more opinion and deliberation (polarized pluralist model). In the liberal direction, adver…
The Nordic Journalists of Tomorrow: An Exploration of First Year Journalism Students in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
The present article summarizes the findings of a survey among first-year journalism students in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. The survey covers a wide array of subjects including social recruitment, motivation for studying journalism, preferences regarding future journalistic working life, views on the role of journalism in society, attitudes toward the profession, journalistic ideals and ideas about what are the most important traits for …
Constructing the audience: A study of segmentation in the Danish press
No more than twenty years ago, the doors between the newsrooms and the marketing departments of Danish newspapers were tightly shut. Today, all major Danish newspapers work with reader profiles using marketing data to create journalistic concepts. This article identifies two dominant reader constructions in policy papers of Danish newspapers: the reader-as-citizen, which can be traced back to the late 1940s, and the reader-as-consumer, visible in…
From Government Office to Private PR: Career Patterns of Special Ministerial Advisers and the Privatization of Politics
This article presents a study on special ministerial advisers examining their careers beyond their role in the machinery of government. Applying a theoretical framework derived from the literature on the sociology of work and the transformation of the organization of politics in the Nordic welfare states, we make two theoretical points. First, special advisers are part of an emerging group of partisan policy professionals, and second, the charact…
Field theory approaches to new media practices: An introduction and some theoretical considerations
In this article introducing the theme of the special issue we argue that studies of new media practices might benefit from especially Pierre Bourdieu's research on cultural production. We introduce some of the literature, which deals with the use of digital media, and which have taken steps to develop field theory in this context. Secondly, we present the four thematic articles in this issue and the articles outside the theme, which includes two …
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry
Media agencies have become one of the key actors in the contemporary media industry: by channelling marketing budgets to some media and some platforms and not to others, media agencies play an important role in creating the digital media infrastructure and laying the tracks of the public sphere. Yet we know very little about these commercial middlemen between advertisers and audiences, what they do, and how we should understand their role in the …
What is ‘Good’ Climate Journalism? Public Perceptions of Climate Journalism in Denmark
Climate change is at the top of the public agenda, but researchers argue that climate journalism needs to be improved. However, knowledge of the public’s perceptions of and expectations for climate journalism is limited. We asked a representative sample of the Danish public (N = 2,028) about their views on climate journalism. The results showed that most respondents regarded climate journalism as important but found it less trustworthy and of low…
The Nordic Journalists of Tomorrow: An Exploration of First Year Journalism Students in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
The present article summarizes the findings of a survey among first-year journalism students in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. The survey covers a wide array of subjects including social recruitment, motivation for studying journalism, preferences regarding future journalistic working life, views on the role of journalism in society, attitudes toward the profession, journalistic ideals and ideas about what are the most important traits for …
Redaktørernes forord
Constructing the audience: A study of segmentation in the Danish press
No more than twenty years ago, the doors between the newsrooms and the marketing departments of Danish newspapers were tightly shut. Today, all major Danish newspapers work with reader profiles using marketing data to create journalistic concepts. This article identifies two dominant reader constructions in policy papers of Danish newspapers: the reader-as-citizen, which can be traced back to the late 1940s, and the reader-as-consumer, visible in…
Media Systems Online and Off: Comparing the Form of News in the United States, Denmark, and France
This study examines how media system differences in the form of news change or stay the same as newspapers in the United States (liberal), Denmark (democratic corporatist), and France (polarized pluralist) move from print to online. Internet technological affordances are posited to move online news toward more advertising and information (liberal model) and more opinion and deliberation (polarized pluralist model). In the liberal direction, adver…
Newsroom ethnography in a field perspective
The reflexive sociology of Pierre Bourdieu offers a promising analytical framework for extending the insights offered by the classical tradition of ethnographic newsroom studies. On a methodological level, Bourdieu’s analytical framework has the potential to help us address one of the key questions in ethnographic research: how should we theorise and empirically investigate context? The question is, not least, practical in nature. When it comes t…
Field theory approaches to new media practices: An introduction and some theoretical considerations
In this article introducing the theme of the special issue we argue that studies of new media practices might benefit from especially Pierre Bourdieu's research on cultural production. We introduce some of the literature, which deals with the use of digital media, and which have taken steps to develop field theory in this context. Secondly, we present the four thematic articles in this issue and the articles outside the theme, which includes two …
Field Theory and Media Production: A Bridge-Building Strategy
Pierre Bourdieu’s book On Television (1998a), which was published in French in 1996, was an essayistic and critical analysis of the French journalistic field, of the power of journalism and journalists and of the professional ideology guiding the journalistic field, such as a constant drive for ‘scoops’. Before that, Bourdieu had not been addressing media production specifically but had worked with more general questions of cultural production an…
From Government Office to Private PR: Career Patterns of Special Ministerial Advisers and the Privatization of Politics
This article presents a study on special ministerial advisers examining their careers beyond their role in the machinery of government. Applying a theoretical framework derived from the literature on the sociology of work and the transformation of the organization of politics in the Nordic welfare states, we make two theoretical points. First, special advisers are part of an emerging group of partisan policy professionals, and second, the charact…
Ideals of Journalism The historical Consecration of Media Capital in Prize Awards and the case of the Danish Cavling award 1945–2016
As a material object, the Cavling prize is a small bronze statuette of an old man with a moustache, a hat and both hands tucked away in the pockets of a long coat. In symbolic terms, the Cavling prize is one of the most prestigious awards of Danish journalism and a professional metonym for excellent journalism. This article presents a study of the written statements from the prize committees that have accompanied the statue since the first award …
What is ‘Good’ Climate Journalism? Public Perceptions of Climate Journalism in Denmark
Climate change is at the top of the public agenda, but researchers argue that climate journalism needs to be improved. However, knowledge of the public’s perceptions of and expectations for climate journalism is limited. We asked a representative sample of the Danish public (N = 2,028) about their views on climate journalism. The results showed that most respondents regarded climate journalism as important but found it less trustworthy and of low…
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry
Media agencies have become one of the key actors in the contemporary media industry: by channelling marketing budgets to some media and some platforms and not to others, media agencies play an important role in creating the digital media infrastructure and laying the tracks of the public sphere. Yet we know very little about these commercial middlemen between advertisers and audiences, what they do, and how we should understand their role in the …
Changing Forms of Ownership in a Democratic Corporatist Media System - How Digitalization Leads to Less Transparency and the Risk of Media Capture
Digitalization has led to a crisis in news media and an upheaval in media ownership. A research concern has been that the motives driving media owners will shift from financial and public service to overtly political and ideological. The term "media capture" has been suggested to describe how various interests may take control over news media outlets. This paper adds to the study of digitalization and media ownership in three ways. First, our ana…
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