David Michael Ryfe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4394044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Michael Ryfe |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryfe |
| SIGNATURE | RYFE D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middle Tennessee State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Why Has News Production in the United States Remained Stable at a Time of Great Change?
This chapter canvases the literature in the sociology of news production for explanations as to why, in the face of great change around them, American newspapers have failed to innovate. It finds three sorts of explanations in this literature: journalists are anchored to habits; they have deep investments in traditional practices and values; and they routinely re‐enact long‐standing definitions of what journalism is and of what it is for. Each ex…
Guest Editor's Introduction
The Nature of News Rules
Drawing on new institutionalist theory, this article presents a theory of news rules to explain the curious fact that so much of the news looks similar across news organizations, yet reporters maintain a great deal of autonomy in choosing which stories to report and how to report them. The theory hinges on a distinction between constitutive and regulative rules. Where constitutive rules tell us what the news is, regulative rules tell us how the n…
The Practice of Deliberative Democracy
This article investigates 16 organizations that attempt to foster better public deliberation in local and national communities. It develops a typology of these organizations and discusses them in the context of the scholarly literature on deliberative democracy. It particularly focuses upon the contributions these organizations may make to debates within the literature between advocates of relational and rational modes of deliberation. It finds t…
From media audience to media public
This article investigates the process by which media audiences become media publics in an analysis of Franklin D. Roosevelt's (FDR) fireside chats. Data for this analysis includes 380 randomly selected letters written in reaction to the first ten chats delivered by FDR during his first term of office. I show that FDR borrowed the `for-anyone-as-someone' structure of broadcasting to address listeners as particular individuals and as members of a m…
History and Political Communication
This essay introduces a series of articles that explore the relation of history to political communication research. It is shown that as a field of study political communication has tended to ignore historical methods and sensibilities. This tendency is traced to the field's roots in social psychology, political science, and early mass communication research. However, although political communication tends to ignore historical research, it often …
Franklin Roosevelt and the Fireside Chats
The theory of media events developed by Dayan and Katz is extended in an analysis of Franklin Roosevelt's first eight fireside chats. Roosevelt's fireside chats were structured in both form and content by the new mode of publicness initiated by the culture industries in the 20th century. Roosevelt employed the idioms of mass culture to close the perceptual gap between him and his mass audience. As media events, the chats were useful in dramatizin…
Betwixt and Between
Although Woodrow Wilson institutionalized the press conference as a routine feature of presidential opinion leadership, he detested his news meetings and did not use them effectively. Wilson bore no personal animosity to the press but rejected the culture of news the press represented, for reasons central to Wilson's theory of presidential leadership. His rejection of this news culture is discussed in terms of the progressive culture in which his…
Guest Editor's Introduction
The Practice of Deliberative Democracy
This article investigates 16 organizations that attempt to foster better public deliberation in local and national communities. It develops a typology of these organizations and discusses them in the context of the scholarly literature on deliberative democracy. It particularly focuses upon the contributions these organizations may make to debates within the literature between advocates of relational and rational modes of deliberation. It finds t…
The Nature of News Rules
Drawing on new institutionalist theory, this article presents a theory of news rules to explain the curious fact that so much of the news looks similar across news organizations, yet reporters maintain a great deal of autonomy in choosing which stories to report and how to report them. The theory hinges on a distinction between constitutive and regulative rules. Where constitutive rules tell us what the news is, regulative rules tell us how the n…
History and Political Communication
This essay introduces a series of articles that explore the relation of history to political communication research. It is shown that as a field of study political communication has tended to ignore historical methods and sensibilities. This tendency is traced to the field's roots in social psychology, political science, and early mass communication research. However, although political communication tends to ignore historical research, it often …
From media audience to media public
This article investigates the process by which media audiences become media publics in an analysis of Franklin D. Roosevelt's (FDR) fireside chats. Data for this analysis includes 380 randomly selected letters written in reaction to the first ten chats delivered by FDR during his first term of office. I show that FDR borrowed the `for-anyone-as-someone' structure of broadcasting to address listeners as particular individuals and as members of a m…
Betwixt and Between
Although Woodrow Wilson institutionalized the press conference as a routine feature of presidential opinion leadership, he detested his news meetings and did not use them effectively. Wilson bore no personal animosity to the press but rejected the culture of news the press represented, for reasons central to Wilson's theory of presidential leadership. His rejection of this news culture is discussed in terms of the progressive culture in which his…
Franklin Roosevelt and the Fireside Chats
The theory of media events developed by Dayan and Katz is extended in an analysis of Franklin Roosevelt's first eight fireside chats. Roosevelt's fireside chats were structured in both form and content by the new mode of publicness initiated by the culture industries in the 20th century. Roosevelt employed the idioms of mass culture to close the perceptual gap between him and his mass audience. As media events, the chats were useful in dramatizin…
Betwixt and Between
Although Woodrow Wilson institutionalized the press conference as a routine feature of presidential opinion leadership, he detested his news meetings and did not use them effectively. Wilson bore no personal animosity to the press but rejected the culture of news the press represented, for reasons central to Wilson's theory of presidential leadership. His rejection of this news culture is discussed in terms of the progressive culture in which his…
From media audience to media public
This article investigates the process by which media audiences become media publics in an analysis of Franklin D. Roosevelt's (FDR) fireside chats. Data for this analysis includes 380 randomly selected letters written in reaction to the first ten chats delivered by FDR during his first term of office. I show that FDR borrowed the `for-anyone-as-someone' structure of broadcasting to address listeners as particular individuals and as members of a m…
History and Political Communication
This essay introduces a series of articles that explore the relation of history to political communication research. It is shown that as a field of study political communication has tended to ignore historical methods and sensibilities. This tendency is traced to the field's roots in social psychology, political science, and early mass communication research. However, although political communication tends to ignore historical research, it often …
The Practice of Deliberative Democracy
This article investigates 16 organizations that attempt to foster better public deliberation in local and national communities. It develops a typology of these organizations and discusses them in the context of the scholarly literature on deliberative democracy. It particularly focuses upon the contributions these organizations may make to debates within the literature between advocates of relational and rational modes of deliberation. It finds t…
Guest Editor's Introduction
The Nature of News Rules
Drawing on new institutionalist theory, this article presents a theory of news rules to explain the curious fact that so much of the news looks similar across news organizations, yet reporters maintain a great deal of autonomy in choosing which stories to report and how to report them. The theory hinges on a distinction between constitutive and regulative rules. Where constitutive rules tell us what the news is, regulative rules tell us how the n…
Why Has News Production in the United States Remained Stable at a Time of Great Change?
This chapter canvases the literature in the sociology of news production for explanations as to why, in the face of great change around them, American newspapers have failed to innovate. It finds three sorts of explanations in this literature: journalists are anchored to habits; they have deep investments in traditional practices and values; and they routinely re‐enact long‐standing definitions of what journalism is and of what it is for. Each ex…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (3 works)