Daniel A Berkowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4869106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel A Berkowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel A |
| FAMILY NAME | Berkowitz |
| SIGNATURE | BERKOWITZ D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Journalism Studies and its Core Commitments
This article conceptualizes the distinctiveness of fields of scholarship within the discipline of communication through particular normative assumptions and identity practices defined here as commitments. A case study of journalism studies results in the postulation of six conceptual commitments that define its core ontological and epistemological premises: contextual sensitivity, holistic relationality, comparative inclination, normative awarene…
Studying News Production
With a history going back to at least the 1950s, long-term research in media production environments remains challenging. Much of the research on news production has come from a sociological direction that examines the process of production. By choosing this route, research has tended to focus on interactions among journalists at the small group and organizational levels. This vein of research mainly emphasizes the limitations and constraints on …
Twilight of the television idols
The death of legendary CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite in 2009 impelled former and present television journalists to revisit both Cronkite as an individual and the journalistic era of the 1960s and 1970s in which he worked. Through a qualitative analysis of television and National Public Radio (NPR) discourse in the four days following Cronkite’s death, this study examines emergent interpretive patterns in the memorializing of the anchor. Beyond …
Conjuring Abraham, Martin and John
In an era when most presidential candidates have come from well-established roots in mainstream society, Barack Obama broke the mold as an African-American growing up in a single-parent family, and at the time of the 2008 campaign, he was a relative newcomer to the American political machinery. As the subject of intense national scrutiny when his candidacy gained stock, Obama’s background posed a problem for journalists whose job it was to quickl…
Journalism Studies and its Core Commitments
This article conceptualizes the distinctiveness of fields of scholarship within the discipline of communication through particular normative assumptions and identity practices defined here as commitments. A case study of journalism studies results in the postulation of six conceptual commitments that define its core ontological and epistemological premises: contextual sensitivity, holistic relationality, comparative inclination, normative awarene…
Twilight of the television idols
The death of legendary CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite in 2009 impelled former and present television journalists to revisit both Cronkite as an individual and the journalistic era of the 1960s and 1970s in which he worked. Through a qualitative analysis of television and National Public Radio (NPR) discourse in the four days following Cronkite’s death, this study examines emergent interpretive patterns in the memorializing of the anchor. Beyond …
Conjuring Abraham, Martin and John
In an era when most presidential candidates have come from well-established roots in mainstream society, Barack Obama broke the mold as an African-American growing up in a single-parent family, and at the time of the 2008 campaign, he was a relative newcomer to the American political machinery. As the subject of intense national scrutiny when his candidacy gained stock, Obama’s background posed a problem for journalists whose job it was to quickl…
Conjuring Abraham, Martin and John
In an era when most presidential candidates have come from well-established roots in mainstream society, Barack Obama broke the mold as an African-American growing up in a single-parent family, and at the time of the 2008 campaign, he was a relative newcomer to the American political machinery. As the subject of intense national scrutiny when his candidacy gained stock, Obama’s background posed a problem for journalists whose job it was to quickl…
Twilight of the television idols
The death of legendary CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite in 2009 impelled former and present television journalists to revisit both Cronkite as an individual and the journalistic era of the 1960s and 1970s in which he worked. Through a qualitative analysis of television and National Public Radio (NPR) discourse in the four days following Cronkite’s death, this study examines emergent interpretive patterns in the memorializing of the anchor. Beyond …
Studying News Production
With a history going back to at least the 1950s, long-term research in media production environments remains challenging. Much of the research on news production has come from a sociological direction that examines the process of production. By choosing this route, research has tended to focus on interactions among journalists at the small group and organizational levels. This vein of research mainly emphasizes the limitations and constraints on …
Journalism Studies and its Core Commitments
This article conceptualizes the distinctiveness of fields of scholarship within the discipline of communication through particular normative assumptions and identity practices defined here as commitments. A case study of journalism studies results in the postulation of six conceptual commitments that define its core ontological and epistemological premises: contextual sensitivity, holistic relationality, comparative inclination, normative awarene…
Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works)