Bonnie Brennen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4900225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bonnie Brennen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bonnie |
| FAMILY NAME | Brennen |
| SIGNATURE | BRENNEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marquette University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Journalism Research in Practice
Thirty-five years ago, Lesley Stahl, who was then a CBS Evening News correspondent, reported critically on the television photo ops used in Ronald Reagan’s presidential re-election campaign. In her
Qualitative Research Methods for Media Studies
Qualitative Research Methods for Media Studies provides students and researchers with the tools they need to perform critically engaged, theoretically informed research using methods that include interviewing, focus groups, historical research, oral histories, ethnography and participant observation, textual analysis and online research. Each chapter features step-by-step instructions that integrate theory with practice, as well as a case study d…
Free Speech & Unfree News
Distinguishing between freedom of the press and freedom of news, in Free Speech & Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America Sam Lebovic provides a fascinating history of the development of the First Amendment. Showcasing press freedom as a fundamental principle of democracy in the United States, Lebovic, an Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University, explains that the classical liberal theory of free speech conceives of …
Taking our Pictures
This qualitative research project explores the specific ways in which 12 traditional television, print and internet news organizations in the United States integrated user-generated visual content into news coverage over the course of an ordinary week, June 8–14, 2014. Framed from a cultural materialist perspective, we found that user-generated visual content constituted a minimal part of the print, broadcast and online news coverage. Based on ou…
Persecuting Alex Rodriguez
This qualitative textual analysis considers the US press coverage of Alex Rodriguez for his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs. It evaluates nearly 500 newspaper, magazine and broadcast reports from 2007 to 2014 on Rodriguez, as well as reader and journalistic responses, and finds issues of overt and inferential racism, stereotyping and symbolic impurity, and a crude emphasis on money in the coverage. This research considers the ethics of…
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…
Journalism in Second Life
Our research seeks to understand the emerging journalism practiced in Second Life—a computer-generated alternative reality. Framed by postmodernism, this study uses an ideological analysis to evaluate the three Second Life newspapers: the Alphaville Herald, the Metaverse Messenger and the Second Life Newspaper. We suggest that journalism in Second Life focuses on community building and education, considers the influence of the on-line world to re…
The future of journalism
From Religiosity to Consumerism
This research looks at the coverage of Thanksgiving during the past 100 years on 11 daily urban newspapers published in the United States in an effort to assess journalistic practices related to the coverage of routine news stories and to understand how through its coverage newspapers represent and interpret social, political, and economic change. The Thanksgiving holiday was chosen because it has been a traditional news story consistently covere…
Lockouts, Protests, and Scabs
This essay uses the case of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner strike, 1967–1977, to show how a critical labor perspective offers historically grounded, politically informed, and culturally situated analyses of media practices and uses. The decade-long strike analyzed here, which has been virtually ignored by media historians, highlights the devastating economic consequences for both the newspaper and the Guild. This essay focuses on the political a…
Conflicted interests, contested terrain
By analyzing ethics codes, a professional statement of what constitutes good work, this essay links codes to a theory of culture and history. It considers two early journalism ethics codes and assesses the latest New York Times code in the light of philosophical theory. The paper suggests that professional tensions outlined in Good Work are reified in the Times code—and that history and culture may be less supportive of a positive outcome of this…
Provocative Interventions
From Headline Shooter to Picture Snatcher
The existing research that addresses the depiction of photojournalists in popular culture focuses primarily on stereotypical characters and assessments of their distorted reflections of ‘reality’. In contrast, this article considers elements of popular cultural practices produced under specific social, economic, and political conditions that may provide useful insights into the actual lived experiences of photojournalists. Framed from a cultural …
If A Problem Cannot Be Solved, Enlarge It
This study uses the theoretical approach of cultural materialism, suggesting that cultural artifacts such as newspaper articles offer useful documentary evidence of representations and misrepresentations of lived experience. It compares the rhetorical strategies in New York Times news articles, editorials, columns, and advertisements used to frame Japanese-Americans in the first four months following Pearl Harbor with those used to describe Musli…
A Note on Hanno Hardt's Contribution to JCI
What the hacks say
A review of United States journalism textbooks, published during the 1980s and 1990s, suggests that authors focus on essential new information and highlight a cutting edge understanding of new technologies, visual literacy, and/or cultural diversity in an effort to justify publishing new books on the practice of journalism. This review also suggests that while the vast majority of these texts clearly cover the field in a competent and thorough ma…
Newsworkers
Journal Article Newsworkers: Toward a History of the Rank and Vile. Ed. by Hanno Hardt and Bonnie Brennen. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. xiv, 237 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8166-2706-1. Paper, $19-95, ISBN 0-8166-2707-X.) Get access Daniel J. Leab Daniel J. Leab Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue …
Toward a History of Labor and News Work
Addresses the use of oral history in journalism history. Major oral history collections related to media studies; Consideration of the use of those collections that has encouraged traditional conceptions of the social functions of the press in the United States; Use of oral histories to privilege the role of newsworkers
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: Communication and the Question of History Get access Hanno Hardt, Guest Co-Editor, Hanno Hardt, Guest Co-Editor 1Professor and Bonnie Brennen a doctoral student, both in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of lowa, 315 Communications Center, lowa City, IA 52242 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bonnie Brennen Bonnie Brennen 1Professor and Bonnie Brennen a…
Newsworkers in Fiction
Essays on Culture As a Practice
Freedom of Expression
Newsworkers
Journal Article Newsworkers: Toward a History of the Rank and Vile. Ed. by Hanno Hardt and Bonnie Brennen. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. xiv, 237 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8166-2706-1. Paper, $19-95, ISBN 0-8166-2707-X.) Get access Daniel J. Leab Daniel J. Leab Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue …
What the hacks say
A review of United States journalism textbooks, published during the 1980s and 1990s, suggests that authors focus on essential new information and highlight a cutting edge understanding of new technologies, visual literacy, and/or cultural diversity in an effort to justify publishing new books on the practice of journalism. This review also suggests that while the vast majority of these texts clearly cover the field in a competent and thorough ma…
From Headline Shooter to Picture Snatcher
The existing research that addresses the depiction of photojournalists in popular culture focuses primarily on stereotypical characters and assessments of their distorted reflections of ‘reality’. In contrast, this article considers elements of popular cultural practices produced under specific social, economic, and political conditions that may provide useful insights into the actual lived experiences of photojournalists. Framed from a cultural …
Persecuting Alex Rodriguez
This qualitative textual analysis considers the US press coverage of Alex Rodriguez for his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs. It evaluates nearly 500 newspaper, magazine and broadcast reports from 2007 to 2014 on Rodriguez, as well as reader and journalistic responses, and finds issues of overt and inferential racism, stereotyping and symbolic impurity, and a crude emphasis on money in the coverage. This research considers the ethics of…
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…
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: Communication and the Question of History Get access Hanno Hardt, Guest Co-Editor, Hanno Hardt, Guest Co-Editor 1Professor and Bonnie Brennen a doctoral student, both in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of lowa, 315 Communications Center, lowa City, IA 52242 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bonnie Brennen Bonnie Brennen 1Professor and Bonnie Brennen a…
Taking our Pictures
This qualitative research project explores the specific ways in which 12 traditional television, print and internet news organizations in the United States integrated user-generated visual content into news coverage over the course of an ordinary week, June 8–14, 2014. Framed from a cultural materialist perspective, we found that user-generated visual content constituted a minimal part of the print, broadcast and online news coverage. Based on ou…
Conflicted interests, contested terrain
By analyzing ethics codes, a professional statement of what constitutes good work, this essay links codes to a theory of culture and history. It considers two early journalism ethics codes and assesses the latest New York Times code in the light of philosophical theory. The paper suggests that professional tensions outlined in Good Work are reified in the Times code—and that history and culture may be less supportive of a positive outcome of this…
Journalism in Second Life
Our research seeks to understand the emerging journalism practiced in Second Life—a computer-generated alternative reality. Framed by postmodernism, this study uses an ideological analysis to evaluate the three Second Life newspapers: the Alphaville Herald, the Metaverse Messenger and the Second Life Newspaper. We suggest that journalism in Second Life focuses on community building and education, considers the influence of the on-line world to re…
If A Problem Cannot Be Solved, Enlarge It
This study uses the theoretical approach of cultural materialism, suggesting that cultural artifacts such as newspaper articles offer useful documentary evidence of representations and misrepresentations of lived experience. It compares the rhetorical strategies in New York Times news articles, editorials, columns, and advertisements used to frame Japanese-Americans in the first four months following Pearl Harbor with those used to describe Musli…
Toward a History of Labor and News Work
Addresses the use of oral history in journalism history. Major oral history collections related to media studies; Consideration of the use of those collections that has encouraged traditional conceptions of the social functions of the press in the United States; Use of oral histories to privilege the role of newsworkers
From Religiosity to Consumerism
This research looks at the coverage of Thanksgiving during the past 100 years on 11 daily urban newspapers published in the United States in an effort to assess journalistic practices related to the coverage of routine news stories and to understand how through its coverage newspapers represent and interpret social, political, and economic change. The Thanksgiving holiday was chosen because it has been a traditional news story consistently covere…
A Note on Hanno Hardt's Contribution to JCI
Freedom of Expression
Essays on Culture As a Practice
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: Communication and the Question of History Get access Hanno Hardt, Guest Co-Editor, Hanno Hardt, Guest Co-Editor 1Professor and Bonnie Brennen a doctoral student, both in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of lowa, 315 Communications Center, lowa City, IA 52242 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bonnie Brennen Bonnie Brennen 1Professor and Bonnie Brennen a…
Newsworkers in Fiction
Newsworkers
Journal Article Newsworkers: Toward a History of the Rank and Vile. Ed. by Hanno Hardt and Bonnie Brennen. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. xiv, 237 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8166-2706-1. Paper, $19-95, ISBN 0-8166-2707-X.) Get access Daniel J. Leab Daniel J. Leab Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue …
Toward a History of Labor and News Work
Addresses the use of oral history in journalism history. Major oral history collections related to media studies; Consideration of the use of those collections that has encouraged traditional conceptions of the social functions of the press in the United States; Use of oral histories to privilege the role of newsworkers
A Note on Hanno Hardt's Contribution to JCI
What the hacks say
A review of United States journalism textbooks, published during the 1980s and 1990s, suggests that authors focus on essential new information and highlight a cutting edge understanding of new technologies, visual literacy, and/or cultural diversity in an effort to justify publishing new books on the practice of journalism. This review also suggests that while the vast majority of these texts clearly cover the field in a competent and thorough ma…
If A Problem Cannot Be Solved, Enlarge It
This study uses the theoretical approach of cultural materialism, suggesting that cultural artifacts such as newspaper articles offer useful documentary evidence of representations and misrepresentations of lived experience. It compares the rhetorical strategies in New York Times news articles, editorials, columns, and advertisements used to frame Japanese-Americans in the first four months following Pearl Harbor with those used to describe Musli…
Conflicted interests, contested terrain
By analyzing ethics codes, a professional statement of what constitutes good work, this essay links codes to a theory of culture and history. It considers two early journalism ethics codes and assesses the latest New York Times code in the light of philosophical theory. The paper suggests that professional tensions outlined in Good Work are reified in the Times code—and that history and culture may be less supportive of a positive outcome of this…
Provocative Interventions
From Headline Shooter to Picture Snatcher
The existing research that addresses the depiction of photojournalists in popular culture focuses primarily on stereotypical characters and assessments of their distorted reflections of ‘reality’. In contrast, this article considers elements of popular cultural practices produced under specific social, economic, and political conditions that may provide useful insights into the actual lived experiences of photojournalists. Framed from a cultural …
Lockouts, Protests, and Scabs
This essay uses the case of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner strike, 1967–1977, to show how a critical labor perspective offers historically grounded, politically informed, and culturally situated analyses of media practices and uses. The decade-long strike analyzed here, which has been virtually ignored by media historians, highlights the devastating economic consequences for both the newspaper and the Guild. This essay focuses on the political a…
From Religiosity to Consumerism
This research looks at the coverage of Thanksgiving during the past 100 years on 11 daily urban newspapers published in the United States in an effort to assess journalistic practices related to the coverage of routine news stories and to understand how through its coverage newspapers represent and interpret social, political, and economic change. The Thanksgiving holiday was chosen because it has been a traditional news story consistently covere…
The future of journalism
Journalism in Second Life
Our research seeks to understand the emerging journalism practiced in Second Life—a computer-generated alternative reality. Framed by postmodernism, this study uses an ideological analysis to evaluate the three Second Life newspapers: the Alphaville Herald, the Metaverse Messenger and the Second Life Newspaper. We suggest that journalism in Second Life focuses on community building and education, considers the influence of the on-line world to re…
Persecuting Alex Rodriguez
This qualitative textual analysis considers the US press coverage of Alex Rodriguez for his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs. It evaluates nearly 500 newspaper, magazine and broadcast reports from 2007 to 2014 on Rodriguez, as well as reader and journalistic responses, and finds issues of overt and inferential racism, stereotyping and symbolic impurity, and a crude emphasis on money in the coverage. This research considers the ethics of…
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…
Taking our Pictures
This qualitative research project explores the specific ways in which 12 traditional television, print and internet news organizations in the United States integrated user-generated visual content into news coverage over the course of an ordinary week, June 8–14, 2014. Framed from a cultural materialist perspective, we found that user-generated visual content constituted a minimal part of the print, broadcast and online news coverage. Based on ou…
Qualitative Research Methods for Media Studies
Qualitative Research Methods for Media Studies provides students and researchers with the tools they need to perform critically engaged, theoretically informed research using methods that include interviewing, focus groups, historical research, oral histories, ethnography and participant observation, textual analysis and online research. Each chapter features step-by-step instructions that integrate theory with practice, as well as a case study d…
Free Speech & Unfree News
Distinguishing between freedom of the press and freedom of news, in Free Speech & Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America Sam Lebovic provides a fascinating history of the development of the First Amendment. Showcasing press freedom as a fundamental principle of democracy in the United States, Lebovic, an Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University, explains that the classical liberal theory of free speech conceives of …
Journalism Research in Practice
Thirty-five years ago, Lesley Stahl, who was then a CBS Evening News correspondent, reported critically on the television photo ops used in Ronald Reagan’s presidential re-election campaign. In her
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