Larry Bennett
Biographic Data
| ID | 78822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Bennett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Bennett |
| SIGNATURE | BENNETT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2264-7596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 212 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Runningupthathill, revival and popular music fandom on TikTok
The fourth season of Stranger Things (2022) used Kate Bush’s 1985 single ‘Running up that Hill’ for a key narrative moment, propelling the song back into the charts. This resurgence also inspired new generations of listeners who turned to TikTok to perform covers, analyses or parodies of the song. While TikTok has been discussed as an emerging player in the music industry and as a space of agency and expression, there is still limited understandi…
Adolescents in street situations in Bangladesh and their exposure to physical violence and emotional abuse
Immigrant Latinx men’s perspectives on domestic violence
Historically, most practice-informed research and research-informed practice have focused on domestic violence (DV) victimization. These explanations are often preferred by practitioners, advocates, and policymakers due to their straightforwardness and simplicity. However, an understanding of DV perpetration is enhanced when we look through the multiple lenses of culture and society, relationship, and gender. The objective of this exploratory res…
Making the third ghetto
Chicago’s third ghetto is a cluster of “thinned out,” outlying neighborhoods that resulted from the demolition of public housing in “second ghetto” neighborhoods surrounding the central business district. The third ghetto shares some of the characteristics of the first and second ghettos—namely, the racial and economic segregation of the resident population. However, it also reveals notable, contemporary features. While the second ghetto was not …
Stop Giving Us the Negatives of the Other Side’s Aims”: The EU Referendum Through Letters to the Editor
The referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU gave citizens the final say on one of the most controversial political issues in modern Britain, crossing social classes, traditional political cleavages, and political parties. In an attempt to examine how the public made sense of Brexit and its potential consequences, we analyse all letters to the editor discussing Brexit or the campaign published in British daily national newspapers in the two m…
Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar Urban America edited by Andrew J. Diamond and Thomas J. Sugrue
British Public Service Broadcasting, the EU and Brexit
This paper analyses the historic role of Britain's major public service broadcaster, the BBC, in reporting the European Union. To do this it combines a content analysis of two datasets of BBC broadcast and online coverage from 2007 and 2012 with a series of semi-structured interviews conducted with former and current senior BBC editors and journalists. The research finds that BBC coverage in the pre-referendum period was closely tied to major eve…
C hicago S chool
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the Chicago School of urban sociology constituted the pioneering cohort of researchers exploring the internal dynamics of industrial cities. Chicago School urban sociologists were human ecologists, interpreters of urban phenomena who adapted biological concepts to the examination of urban growth, neighborhood formation and transition, and urban subcultures. Although the use of biological metaphors to…
How and How Much: Combined Services for Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse
This study generates practice-based evidence about organizational strategies for addressing co-occurring domestic violence (DV) and substance abuse (SA) using a survey of organizations working on both issues ( N = 204). How (the strategies) and how much (the extensiveness) organizations attend to both issues vary by organizational type (DV, SA, or multiservice) and populations served. While most SA and multiservice organizations address DV intern…
Representations of Fans and Fandom in the British Newspaper Media
Relations between news media and fans have historically been a complicated and complex terrain, with newspaper coverage representing certain and specific elements of fandom, often resulting in fans being depicted as pathological or as social losers and misfits. This chapter seeks to examine how fandom is constructed, represented, and “made sense of” by studying a sample of British newspapers across a ten-year period (2000–2010). It unravels how h…
Resisting Technology in Music Fandom: Nostalgia, Authenticity, and Kate Bush’s “Before the Dawn”
Lessons in Program Evaluation: The ACTV Batterer Program Study and Its Claims
The "Evaluation of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) curriculum for domestic violence offenders" illustrates the methodological issues associated with interpreting program evaluations and applying them to policy. Despite the "preliminary" evidence, the authors promote ACTV as more effective in terms of recidivism compared with DU/CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy) programming. A more critical consideration of the research, however, expo…
Surveying fandom
This chapter provides an analytic and useful guide for fan studies scholars intending to use surveys in their scholarship. Adherence to clearly communicated ethics should be a central consideration of fan studies research in general regardless of the method used, and should consequently be a keystone element of survey research. There are a variety of different free survey websites available, such as Survey Expression, Survey Monkey, and Google Fo…
Fan/Celebrity Interactions and Social Media: Connectivity and Engagement in Lady Gaga Fandom
This chapter explores how Gaga fans, known as little Monsters, are connecting with the star through social media platforms, and ruminates on how the relationship between fan and celebrity is currently being affected by these new media forms. A central theme that can often be found within fan cultures, and one that has previously been given attention within fan studies literature, is the connection, or pursued interaction, with a celebrity or obje…
Myths about media studies: The construction of media studies education in the British press
This article examines the construction and representation of Media Studies education in the British press. Drawing on an empirical analysis of five years of newspaper coverage, it concludes that Media Studies has been predominantly represented and framed as a ‘soft’ or ‘Mickey Mouse’ subject, with over half (61.1%) the news stories analysed approaching it through this lens. It shows that the right of centre British press in particular promoted th…
The Legacy of Adolph Reed, Jr.’s “Black Urban Regime”
Adolph Reed’s extended essay, “The Black Urban Regime: Structural Origins and Constraints,” was a provocative and insightful examination of the first generation of African-American municipal officials in major American cities. The criteria articulated by Reed in assessing the policy record of that group of black mayors, council-members, and leading administrators have retained their applicability in the face of contemporary efforts to shape and e…
Rethinking balance and impartiality in journalism? How the BBC attempted and failed to change the paradigm
This article reconsiders the concepts of balance and impartiality in journalism, in the context of a quantitative content analysis of sourcing patterns in BBC news programming on radio, television and online in 2007 and 2012. Impartiality is the cornerstone of principles of public service broadcasting at the BBC and other broadcasters modelled on it. However, the article suggests that in the case of the BBC, it is principally put into practice th…
Fans and Fan Culture
Fans and fan culture raise important issues of power, creativity, and knowledge within media sociology and cultural studies. Digital technology in particular has altered the landscape of fandom, offering new forms of interaction with the object of fandom and the wider fan community, and enhanced possibilities for creativity – a vibrant sphere of fan culture. As it stands, fan cultures and fan studies scholarship is a dynamic discipline that can i…
Chicago, Variously, Detroit Possibly
Performance and performativity in fandom
Editorial overview of Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 18, special issue, "Performance and Performativity in Fandom
Discipline and resistance on social media: Discourse, power and context in the Paul Chambers ‘Twitter Joke Trial’
Crowdfunding: A New Media & Society special issue
As guest editors of this special issue of New Media & Society, we examine the concept of crowdfunding, where grassroots creative projects are funded by the masses through websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, a practice that has been steadily gaining attention in the last few years, across many different sectors of society. We introduce the nine articles comprising the special issue and unravel the developments and challenges involved in th…
Barriers to Addressing Substance Abuse in Domestic Violence Court
Substance abuse commonly co‐occurs with intimate partner violence among both perpetrators and survivors. Specialized courts that focus on intimate partner violence provide a unique opportunity to address both problems simultaneously, but research has yet to identify whether this happens. In this qualitative study of a domestic violence court in a large midwestern metropolitan area, key informants were interviewed to understand how the Court treat…
If we stick together we can do anything: Lady Gaga fandom, philanthropy and activism through social media
This study explores how modern celebrities increasingly utilise social media to mobilise audiences towards philanthropic and activist causes. Achieving millions of followers on all social-media platforms, Lady Gaga is a timely example of how social media can be used as a tool to promote specific causes and to secure an active response from fan networks. This essay traces how Gaga has been actively engaged in a range of philanthropic and activist …
Discourses of order and rationality: Drooling R.E.M. fans as ‘matter out of place’
In this article, I explore negotiations of power surrounding online fan cultural norms, by examining how members within Murmurs.com, a community for fans of rock band R.E.M., protect valued meanings surrounding the band and their music. I demonstrate how normative fan identity within the community is driven by the notion of R.E.M and their music as holding value for the 'thinking' fan and explore the manner in which this is explicitly enforced wh…
Rethinking balance and impartiality in journalism? How the BBC attempted and failed to change the paradigm
This article reconsiders the concepts of balance and impartiality in journalism, in the context of a quantitative content analysis of sourcing patterns in BBC news programming on radio, television and online in 2007 and 2012. Impartiality is the cornerstone of principles of public service broadcasting at the BBC and other broadcasters modelled on it. However, the article suggests that in the case of the BBC, it is principally put into practice th…
If we stick together we can do anything: Lady Gaga fandom, philanthropy and activism through social media
This study explores how modern celebrities increasingly utilise social media to mobilise audiences towards philanthropic and activist causes. Achieving millions of followers on all social-media platforms, Lady Gaga is a timely example of how social media can be used as a tool to promote specific causes and to secure an active response from fan networks. This essay traces how Gaga has been actively engaged in a range of philanthropic and activist …
Graduating Social Work Students’ Perspectives on Domestic Violence
This article reports the findings of a qualitative study that examined 124 social work students’ views on the causes and dynamics of domestic violence and their recommended interventions in a case scenario. Most students graduated from the master of social work (MSW) program with a mental health perspective on domestic violence. Only a small percentage were aware of specific interventions for domestic violence and many continued to attribute dome…
Program Completion and Re-Arrest in a Batterer Intervention System
Objective: The authors examine the effects of batterer intervention program (BIP) completion on domestic violence re-arrest in an urban system of 30 BIPs with a common set of state standards, common program completion criteria, and centralized criminal justice supervision. Method: 899 men arrested for domestic violence were assessed and completed 1 of 30 BIPs. At 2.4 years after intake, the authors reviewed arrest records and modeled domestic vio…
An Ecological Study of Nonresidential Services for Battered Women Within a Comprehensive Community Protocol for Domestic Violence
Do We Really Wish to Live in a Communitarian City: Communitarian Thinking and the Redevelopment of Chicago’S Cabrini-Green Public Housing Complex
Communitarianism is a movement of academic intellectuals, policy experts, and public figures seeking to redefine the relations among individuals, communities, and governments. This article examines two important communitarian texts, Amitai Etzioni’s The Spirit of Community and Alan Ehrenhalt’s The Lost City, and further links communitarian principles to particular features of William Julius Wilson’s “ghetto underclass” analysis. The article concl…
Patterns of listening through social media: Online fan engagement with the live music experience
In recent years, the expansion and use of mobile Internet and social media have changed live music engagement and fandom quite considerably. It has not only allowed fans to find and connect with each other at shows, but also to tweet and text concert set-lists and other information as they happen, thereby allowing non-attendees around the world to feel part of the event. This study examines the responses of fans engaged in this activity, identify…
Discipline and resistance on social media: Discourse, power and context in the Paul Chambers ‘Twitter Joke Trial’
The Treatment Needs of Substance Abusing Batterers: A Comparison of Men Who Batter Their Female Partners
Crowdfunding: A New Media & Society special issue
As guest editors of this special issue of New Media & Society, we examine the concept of crowdfunding, where grassroots creative projects are funded by the masses through websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, a practice that has been steadily gaining attention in the last few years, across many different sectors of society. We introduce the nine articles comprising the special issue and unravel the developments and challenges involved in th…
Effects of Coordinated Services for Drug-Abusing Women Who Are Victims of Intimate Partner Violence
This article summarizes outcomes from a demonstration project on collaboration between substance abuse and domestic violence agencies. Researchers recruited women seeking services for substance abuse or intimate partner violence at 1 of 6 participating agencies. Admitted women were both victims of domestic violence and abusing alcohol or drugs. Following an initial screening, participants were interviewed at program entry (n = 255) and again 4 to…
Morality Politics in American Cities
Morality Politics in American Cities. By Elaine B. Sharp. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. 288p. $35.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Elaine Sharp's book examines the political climate and specifics of the local policy debate, authorization, and implementation associated with a number of controversial issues: casino gambling projects and regulation/prohibition of “sex industries,” as well as municipal support for/opposition to gay rights and pr…
Performance and performativity in fandom
Editorial overview of Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 18, special issue, "Performance and Performativity in Fandom
Peer Sexual Harassment and Peer Violence among Adolescents in Johannesburg and Chicago
In this comparison study of peer sexual harassment and peer violence in Johannesburg, South Africa and Chicago, US schools, the role of gender and power in the experience, perpetration and reaction to peer sexual harassment, physical violence and sexual violence are described for 208 South African students and 220 US students aged 16-18
Detroit: Race and Uneven Development
British Public Service Broadcasting, the EU and Brexit
This paper analyses the historic role of Britain's major public service broadcaster, the BBC, in reporting the European Union. To do this it combines a content analysis of two datasets of BBC broadcast and online coverage from 2007 and 2012 with a series of semi-structured interviews conducted with former and current senior BBC editors and journalists. The research finds that BBC coverage in the pre-referendum period was closely tied to major eve…
Myths about media studies: The construction of media studies education in the British press
This article examines the construction and representation of Media Studies education in the British press. Drawing on an empirical analysis of five years of newspaper coverage, it concludes that Media Studies has been predominantly represented and framed as a ‘soft’ or ‘Mickey Mouse’ subject, with over half (61.1%) the news stories analysed approaching it through this lens. It shows that the right of centre British press in particular promoted th…
The Political and Civic Implications of Chicago's Unsuccessful Bid to Host the 2016 Olympic Games
Between 2006 and 2009, Chicago's political and civic leadership developed a bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) ultimately selected Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Games, with Chicago finishing fourth among the finalist cities in the October, 2009, IOC voting. This article is based on 20 key informant interviews with members and staff of the Chicago 2016 Committee, neighborhood activists and organizationa…
Teenage Peer Sexual Harassment: Implications for Social Work Practice in Education
Peer sexual harassment is an often overlooked problem for both girls and boys in the educational environment. This article provides a historical framework for defining peer sexual harassment as a sex discrimination issue and a description of peer sexual harassment as a potential mental health issue. The article also reviews the limited empirical research on teenage peer sexual harassment, which has consistently revealed that nearly four of five a…
Rethinking Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Research, and Neighborhood Policy: Lessons from Uptown
This case study of a northside Chicago neighborhood examines local demographic and housing patterns, evolving neighborhood issues, cultural conflicts, and organizational developments in the context of post- World War II neighborhood research in the United States. The author contends that this body of literature reveals three characteristic approaches to neighborhood research and action: site, system, and stage. Using the third of these strategies…
The Legacy of Adolph Reed, Jr.’s “Black Urban Regime”
Adolph Reed’s extended essay, “The Black Urban Regime: Structural Origins and Constraints,” was a provocative and insightful examination of the first generation of African-American municipal officials in major American cities. The criteria articulated by Reed in assessing the policy record of that group of black mayors, council-members, and leading administrators have retained their applicability in the face of contemporary efforts to shape and e…
Music fandom online: R.E.M. fans in pursuit of the ultimate first listen
This article explores the processes that occur when music fans reject the up-to-date flow and download culture of the internet in favour of a more traditional first experience of listening to an album. Examining a sub-group within an online community for fans of rock band R.E.M., this article discusses how these fans assume non-normativity, due to their activities evading spoilers concerning the then forthcoming album. Driven by a nostalgic aim t…
Development and Predictive Ability of a Behavior-Based Typology of Men Who Batter
Substance Abuse and Men Who Batter: Issues in Theory and Practice
This article briefly reviews data supporting links between substance abuse and men’s abuse of female partners, as well as several perspectives that might explain these links. Then it examines critical issues of practice with substance-abusing men who batter, including assessment, safety, and sequencing of interventions. Finally, special concerns of working with African American men who batter and abuse drugs are addressed
Chicago: Race, Class, and the Response to Urban Decline
Who Shot N. Y
Beyond Urban Renewal: Chicago's North Loop Redevelopment Project
Chicago's North Loop project is one of the largest downtown redevelopment proposals initiated in the period since the termination of the federal urban renewal program. North Loop planning in advance of substantial project implementation has taken more than a decade, and the political controversies associated with the project reveal important insights in regard to post-urban renewal downtown redevelopment, the momentum of large-scale redevelopment…
The Dilemmas of Building a Progressive Urban Coalition: The Linked Development Debate in Chicago
In 1983 Chicago elected its first black mayor, Harold Washington. During Washington’s first term of office, his administration not only reordered municipal priorities in such a fashion as to benefit his core, minority voting constituency, but also defined a municipal agenda emphasizing greater attention to neighborhood needs and more open government. In 1984 an important neighborhood coalition, the Save Our Neighborhoods/Save Our City Coalition (…
Challenging Chicago's growth machine: A preliminary report on the Washington administration
Chicago: Race, Class, and the Response to Urban Decline
Despite local folklore, Chicago is not always a city that works. No longer the Hog Butcher for the World, the Windy City has, in recent decades, pursued economic growth at all costs - to the detriment of many of its citizens. This book describes the social, economic, and political costs of the growth ideology and examines the populist response that promises an alternative Chicago. Tracing the city's uneven economic development since World War II,…
Detroit: Race and Uneven Development
A Review of Quantitative Research on Men Who Batter
The Politics of Urban Restructuring: A Review Essay
Chicago: Race, Class, and the Response to Urban Decline
Explaining Built America
A Tale of Three Belts: Sun, Snow, and Tight
Harold Washington and the Black Urban Regime
Although commentators on the mayoral administration of Chicago's Harold Washington have typically described either a progressive-city government or a black machine, a third approach to characterizing Washington's political coalition and administrative program is offered by the black-urban-regime metaphor. By examining the Washington administration as a black urban regime, one can specify how local factors constrained the policymaking of Chicago's…
Rethinking Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Research, and Neighborhood Policy: Lessons from Uptown
This case study of a northside Chicago neighborhood examines local demographic and housing patterns, evolving neighborhood issues, cultural conflicts, and organizational developments in the context of post- World War II neighborhood research in the United States. The author contends that this body of literature reveals three characteristic approaches to neighborhood research and action: site, system, and stage. Using the third of these strategies…
Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America
Journal Article Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America. Ed. by Ronald Edsforth and Larry Bennett. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. x + 222 pp. Cloth, $44.50, ISBN 0-7914-0765-9. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-7914-0766-7.) Get access Clayton R. Koppes Clayton R. Koppes Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages…
Bitter Fruit: Black Politics and the Chicago Machine 1931-1991. William J. Grimshaw
Urban redevelopment and grassroots action in Chicago and Sheffield: Themes, variations and uncertain legacies
In the Uptown area of Chicago and Sheffield, England’s Sharrow neighborhood, redevelopment initiatives in the late 1960s and early 1970s produced a significant degree of community conflict. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s a variety of grassroots movements appeared in each community. The legacy of redevelopment‐derived conflict and community‐based organizing in the two communities suggests that there is more variation in neighborhood grassroots pol…
An Ecological Study of Nonresidential Services for Battered Women Within a Comprehensive Community Protocol for Domestic Violence
Do We Really Wish to Live in a Communitarian City: Communitarian Thinking and the Redevelopment of Chicago’S Cabrini-Green Public Housing Complex
Communitarianism is a movement of academic intellectuals, policy experts, and public figures seeking to redefine the relations among individuals, communities, and governments. This article examines two important communitarian texts, Amitai Etzioni’s The Spirit of Community and Alan Ehrenhalt’s The Lost City, and further links communitarian principles to particular features of William Julius Wilson’s “ghetto underclass” analysis. The article concl…
Teenage Peer Sexual Harassment: Implications for Social Work Practice in Education
Peer sexual harassment is an often overlooked problem for both girls and boys in the educational environment. This article provides a historical framework for defining peer sexual harassment as a sex discrimination issue and a description of peer sexual harassment as a potential mental health issue. The article also reviews the limited empirical research on teenage peer sexual harassment, which has consistently revealed that nearly four of five a…
Sexual and severe physical violence among high school students: Power beliefs, gender, and relationship
In a sample of 463 high school students, 43% reported being the victim of either sexual violence or severe physical violence by peers in the past year. Perpetrators were more likely to be known rather than unknown to the victim, or to be dating/ex-dating partners, and 70% of those who experienced violence by peers were girls. Findings support a view of high school peer violence that encompasses relationship, gender, effects on the victim, and bel…
Standards for Batterer Intervention Programs: In Whose Interest
The authors review batterer program regulation in the United States, describe variations and commonalities between regulatory standards, and examine arguments about standards. As a case illustration of batterer program regulation, the authors describe the Illinois Protocol for Domestic Abuse batterer programs and issues emerging during its implementation. The authors conclude that the dual criteria of accountability and victim safety resolve many…
When the Community Punches a Time Clock: Evaluating a Collaborative Workplace Domestic Abuse Prevention Program
This article reports on a collaboration to develop, implement, and evaluate a domestic violence prevention program for 900 employees in a garment factory. The authors discuss issues in collaboration between researchers and advocates as well as employers, employees, and the employer's foundation. Although more complicated, this fivefold partnering process eventually led to an outcome that satisfied participants and yielded positive results. Drawin…
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities . Janet Abu-Lughod
Revamped Stadium…New Neighborhood
In 1988, one of Major League Baseball’s oldest stadiums, Wrigley Field, was substantially modernized through the addition of field lighting. This modernization of Wrigley Field, in turn, has contributed to a complicated transformation of the adjoining Lake View neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side. This article examines the corporate maneuvering that led to the upgrading of Wrigley Field, as well as the roles played by local government and neighb…
Substance Abuse and Men Who Batter: Issues in Theory and Practice
This article briefly reviews data supporting links between substance abuse and men’s abuse of female partners, as well as several perspectives that might explain these links. Then it examines critical issues of practice with substance-abusing men who batter, including assessment, safety, and sequencing of interventions. Finally, special concerns of working with African American men who batter and abuse drugs are addressed
Sociology (43 works) · Political science (39 works) · Law (25 works) · Psychology (25 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Poison control (20 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (18 works) · Politics (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Media studies (17 works)