R Benson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 147660 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Benson |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Benson |
| ASSINATURA | BENSON R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0876-2707 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 617 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Media Independence is About More Than Courage
Rodney Benson on the ownership forms that constrain journalistic independence
Todd Gitlin and the exemplary intellectual life
Beyond his written words, I first encountered Todd Gitlin as a voice on the telephone. He was calling me in the spring of 1992 to tell me that I had been accepted to the UC Berkeley Sociology PhD p
Remembering Todd Gitlin
News You Can Use to Promote Your Interests
While media ownership has often been studied, too little attention has been accorded to one aspect of news coverage—promotional economic instrumentalism (EI)—evident in a news organization's tendency to mention and praise its ownership interests (owners, investors, and associated economic interests). Such distorted news coverage may constitute an ethical conflict of interest and a failure to provide complete information needed by citizens in a de…
How Media Ownership Matters in the US
Rethinking the sociology of media ownership
This chapter presents a new way to study news media ownership. It argues that instead of focusing on individual media moguls or market concentration, sociologists should analyze the different “forms” of media ownership: stock market traded, privately held, civil society, and public/state. Variation in forms of ownership can then be linked to differences in the exercise of four modes of power shaping news content: political instrumentalism, econom…
Media Ownership and Public Service News
This article analyzes the extent to which diverse institutional logics (stock market, privately held, civil society, public) are linked to the exercise of one important mode of media ownership power: public service orientation. The research draws on a content analysis of a total of fifty-one news organizations in Sweden, France, and the United States, representing, respectively, Hallin and Mancini’s democratic corporatist, polarized pluralist, an…
The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered
B ourdieu, P ierre
French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of field, autonomy, homology, cultural capital, habitus, doxa, reflexivity, and symbolic violence provide powerful tools for communication theorizing. In works such as Distinction , The Rules of Art , and Language and Symbolic Power , Bourdieu offers new insights on the production of culture, audience reception, media change, and research epistemology and methodology.
Response to reviews of Shaping immigration news
Blaming the Victim
Who Says What or Nothing at All? Speakers, Frames, and Frameless Quotes in Unauthorized Immigration News in the United States, Norway, and France
Determining the speakers and arguments that dominate the news has long been a core task of media sociology. Yet systematic evidence linking the two-who says what or nothing at all-is lacking in news analysis, especially on the important issue of immigration. In this article, we analyze quoted sources and issue frames in U.S., French, and Norwegian news coverage of unauthorized immigration during 2011 and 2012. Supporting claims of transnational m…
Is the Internet Homogenizing or Diversifying the News? External Pluralism in the U.S., Danish, and French Press
This study examines whether news is more or less homogeneous online than in print across agenda-setting news outlets in the United States, Denmark, and France. Examining similarities and differences in the genres, topics, and authors of news in each country’s leading newspapers, it finds little evidence of greater online homogeneity in any country. U.S. news outlets are more differentiated online than in print, while French news outlets have simi…
Shaping Immigration News
This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample of newspaper and television coverage since the early 1970s, Rodney Benson shows how the immigration debate has become increasingly focused on the dramatic, emotion-laden frames of human…
The Shock of the News
Futures of the News
What Makes for a Critical Press? A Case Study of French and U.S. Immigration News Coverage
This article measures and explains criticism in U.S. and French national newspapers during the 1990s and 2000s. Criticism is operationalized in terms of discrete critical statements directed at governmental, political party, business, civil society, and foreign/ international organizations or officials; such critical statements, which take various forms—administrative, character, truth, ideology, policy, and strategy—offer a more comprehensive me…
Book Notes
Shaping the Public Sphere
What makes news more multiperspectival? A field analysis
États-Unis
Par sa couverture particulierement intense au debut, la presse americaine a donne beaucoup d’importance aux attentats de Madrid. Le cadrage dominant est un parallele avec le 11 septembre, justifiant une approche faite d’empathie et un sentiment fort de solidarite dans l’epreuve. Mais, apres les resultats des elections legislatives espagnoles, quand il est devenu evident que la population espagnole a elu un chef ouvertement hostile a la participat…
News Media as a “Journalistic Field
Bourdieu's field theory and the new institutionalism of Cook and Sparrow are similar in that they call for a new unit of analysis for journalism studies: between the individual news organization and the society as a whole, the "mezzo-level" interorganizational and professional environment of the field/institution. Bourdieu's focus on competition and difference, rooted in processes of cultural and economic class distinctions both among audiences a…
Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field
The Political Shaping of the Media
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Constructing Social Problems in an Age of Globalization
Despite growing academic interest in political and cultural globalization, sociologists have failed to systematically account for the factors that favor cross-national convergence or divergence in the form or content of public political debates in news media. This article uses two original data sets on American and French news reporting on immigration and sexual harassment to test the effects of four factors potentially relevant to such convergen…
News Media as a “Journalistic Field
Bourdieu's field theory and the new institutionalism of Cook and Sparrow are similar in that they call for a new unit of analysis for journalism studies: between the individual news organization and the society as a whole, the "mezzo-level" interorganizational and professional environment of the field/institution. Bourdieu's focus on competition and difference, rooted in processes of cultural and economic class distinctions both among audiences a…
Field theory in comparative context
Bringing the Sociology of Media Back In
In political communication research, news media tend to be studied more as a dependent than independent variable. That is, few studies link structural characteristics of media systems to the production of journalistic discourse about politics. One reason for this relative silence is the inadequacy of prevalent theories. Influential scholars in sociology and political communication such as Jürgen Habermas, Manuel Castells, and William Gamson provi…
Constructing Social Problems in an Age of Globalization
Despite growing academic interest in political and cultural globalization, sociologists have failed to systematically account for the factors that favor cross-national convergence or divergence in the form or content of public political debates in news media. This article uses two original data sets on American and French news reporting on immigration and sexual harassment to test the effects of four factors potentially relevant to such convergen…
What makes news more multiperspectival? A field analysis
Who Says What or Nothing at All? Speakers, Frames, and Frameless Quotes in Unauthorized Immigration News in the United States, Norway, and France
Determining the speakers and arguments that dominate the news has long been a core task of media sociology. Yet systematic evidence linking the two-who says what or nothing at all-is lacking in news analysis, especially on the important issue of immigration. In this article, we analyze quoted sources and issue frames in U.S., French, and Norwegian news coverage of unauthorized immigration during 2011 and 2012. Supporting claims of transnational m…
Shaping the Public Sphere
What Makes for a Critical Press? A Case Study of French and U.S. Immigration News Coverage
This article measures and explains criticism in U.S. and French national newspapers during the 1990s and 2000s. Criticism is operationalized in terms of discrete critical statements directed at governmental, political party, business, civil society, and foreign/ international organizations or officials; such critical statements, which take various forms—administrative, character, truth, ideology, policy, and strategy—offer a more comprehensive me…
American journalism and the politics of diversity
Ethnic-identity professional organizations, such as Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc., have become among the most prominent journalistic voices in contemporary US newsrooms. Supported by major foundations and media companies, this diversity journalism movement has focused on two primary goals: increased employment of non-white journalists and more news attention to ‘communities of color’. While these goals have been partially achieved, the moveme…
Media Ownership and Public Service News
This article analyzes the extent to which diverse institutional logics (stock market, privately held, civil society, public) are linked to the exercise of one important mode of media ownership power: public service orientation. The research draws on a content analysis of a total of fifty-one news organizations in Sweden, France, and the United States, representing, respectively, Hallin and Mancini’s democratic corporatist, polarized pluralist, an…
The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered
Is the Internet Homogenizing or Diversifying the News? External Pluralism in the U.S., Danish, and French Press
This study examines whether news is more or less homogeneous online than in print across agenda-setting news outlets in the United States, Denmark, and France. Examining similarities and differences in the genres, topics, and authors of news in each country’s leading newspapers, it finds little evidence of greater online homogeneity in any country. U.S. news outlets are more differentiated online than in print, while French news outlets have simi…
The Shock of the News
News You Can Use to Promote Your Interests
While media ownership has often been studied, too little attention has been accorded to one aspect of news coverage—promotional economic instrumentalism (EI)—evident in a news organization's tendency to mention and praise its ownership interests (owners, investors, and associated economic interests). Such distorted news coverage may constitute an ethical conflict of interest and a failure to provide complete information needed by citizens in a de…
Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field
La logique du profit dans les médias américains
Gewinnstreben und seine Auswirkungen auf die amerikanischen Medien Die traditionelle Debatte innerhalb der amerikanischen Presse über die Mauer „zwischen Kirche und Staat", d.h. zwischen einerseits den Werbungs- und MarketingAbteilungen und anderereits den journalistischen Tätigkeiten, macht deutlich, dass das Verhältnis zwischen dem Streben nach Gewinn und der Herstellung von Informationen von den Anfängen der Presse an eine Quelle potentieller …
Blaming the Victim
The Political Shaping of the Media
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Why Conceptual Models and "Big" Institutions Matter
I would like to begin this response by thanking Michael Schudson for encouraging me to risk writing a critical essay about how media sociology might be better incorporated into political communications research. In the broadest sense, this is a project that all of the discussants endorsed, and I am grateful for the constructive comments of David Altheide, Nina Eliasoph, William Gamson, and Todd Gitlin. I certainly have no objections to their sugg…
Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory
Field theory in comparative context
La logique du profit dans les médias américains
Gewinnstreben und seine Auswirkungen auf die amerikanischen Medien Die traditionelle Debatte innerhalb der amerikanischen Presse über die Mauer „zwischen Kirche und Staat", d.h. zwischen einerseits den Werbungs- und MarketingAbteilungen und anderereits den journalistischen Tätigkeiten, macht deutlich, dass das Verhältnis zwischen dem Streben nach Gewinn und der Herstellung von Informationen von den Anfängen der Presse an eine Quelle potentieller …
Why Conceptual Models and "Big" Institutions Matter
I would like to begin this response by thanking Michael Schudson for encouraging me to risk writing a critical essay about how media sociology might be better incorporated into political communications research. In the broadest sense, this is a project that all of the discussants endorsed, and I am grateful for the constructive comments of David Altheide, Nina Eliasoph, William Gamson, and Todd Gitlin. I certainly have no objections to their sugg…
American journalism and the politics of diversity
Ethnic-identity professional organizations, such as Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc., have become among the most prominent journalistic voices in contemporary US newsrooms. Supported by major foundations and media companies, this diversity journalism movement has focused on two primary goals: increased employment of non-white journalists and more news attention to ‘communities of color’. While these goals have been partially achieved, the moveme…
Bringing the Sociology of Media Back In
In political communication research, news media tend to be studied more as a dependent than independent variable. That is, few studies link structural characteristics of media systems to the production of journalistic discourse about politics. One reason for this relative silence is the inadequacy of prevalent theories. Influential scholars in sociology and political communication such as Jürgen Habermas, Manuel Castells, and William Gamson provi…
La Fin du Monde? Tradition and Change in the French Press
Le Monde, or rather its current management team of publisher and editor Jean- Marie Colombani, managing editor Edwy Plenel, and director-of-the-board Alain Minc, has been the critical target over the past year of several best-selling books, accompanied by scores of articles in the rest of the French press. This avalanche of unwelcome attention for the newspaper was launched with the 630-page, exhaustively documented La Face cachée du Monde (The H…
Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field
The Political Shaping of the Media
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Constructing Social Problems in an Age of Globalization
Despite growing academic interest in political and cultural globalization, sociologists have failed to systematically account for the factors that favor cross-national convergence or divergence in the form or content of public political debates in news media. This article uses two original data sets on American and French news reporting on immigration and sexual harassment to test the effects of four factors potentially relevant to such convergen…
États-Unis
Par sa couverture particulierement intense au debut, la presse americaine a donne beaucoup d’importance aux attentats de Madrid. Le cadrage dominant est un parallele avec le 11 septembre, justifiant une approche faite d’empathie et un sentiment fort de solidarite dans l’epreuve. Mais, apres les resultats des elections legislatives espagnoles, quand il est devenu evident que la population espagnole a elu un chef ouvertement hostile a la participat…
News Media as a “Journalistic Field
Bourdieu's field theory and the new institutionalism of Cook and Sparrow are similar in that they call for a new unit of analysis for journalism studies: between the individual news organization and the society as a whole, the "mezzo-level" interorganizational and professional environment of the field/institution. Bourdieu's focus on competition and difference, rooted in processes of cultural and economic class distinctions both among audiences a…
Book Notes
Shaping the Public Sphere
What makes news more multiperspectival? A field analysis
Futures of the News
What Makes for a Critical Press? A Case Study of French and U.S. Immigration News Coverage
This article measures and explains criticism in U.S. and French national newspapers during the 1990s and 2000s. Criticism is operationalized in terms of discrete critical statements directed at governmental, political party, business, civil society, and foreign/ international organizations or officials; such critical statements, which take various forms—administrative, character, truth, ideology, policy, and strategy—offer a more comprehensive me…
The Shock of the News
Shaping Immigration News
This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample of newspaper and television coverage since the early 1970s, Rodney Benson shows how the immigration debate has become increasingly focused on the dramatic, emotion-laden frames of human…
Is the Internet Homogenizing or Diversifying the News? External Pluralism in the U.S., Danish, and French Press
This study examines whether news is more or less homogeneous online than in print across agenda-setting news outlets in the United States, Denmark, and France. Examining similarities and differences in the genres, topics, and authors of news in each country’s leading newspapers, it finds little evidence of greater online homogeneity in any country. U.S. news outlets are more differentiated online than in print, while French news outlets have simi…
Who Says What or Nothing at All? Speakers, Frames, and Frameless Quotes in Unauthorized Immigration News in the United States, Norway, and France
Determining the speakers and arguments that dominate the news has long been a core task of media sociology. Yet systematic evidence linking the two-who says what or nothing at all-is lacking in news analysis, especially on the important issue of immigration. In this article, we analyze quoted sources and issue frames in U.S., French, and Norwegian news coverage of unauthorized immigration during 2011 and 2012. Supporting claims of transnational m…
B ourdieu, P ierre
French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of field, autonomy, homology, cultural capital, habitus, doxa, reflexivity, and symbolic violence provide powerful tools for communication theorizing. In works such as Distinction , The Rules of Art , and Language and Symbolic Power , Bourdieu offers new insights on the production of culture, audience reception, media change, and research epistemology and methodology.
Response to reviews of Shaping immigration news
Blaming the Victim
Rethinking the sociology of media ownership
This chapter presents a new way to study news media ownership. It argues that instead of focusing on individual media moguls or market concentration, sociologists should analyze the different “forms” of media ownership: stock market traded, privately held, civil society, and public/state. Variation in forms of ownership can then be linked to differences in the exercise of four modes of power shaping news content: political instrumentalism, econom…
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