Media Ownership and Public Service News
How Strong Are Institutional Logics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12977253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Benson (0000-0003-0876-2707, New York University, corresponding author), Timothy Neff (0000-0003-2980-3838, New York University), Mattias Hessérus |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 275-298 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Press/Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-1612 • E-ISSN: 1040-1620 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1940161218782740 |
| OpenAlex | W2816758569 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 22 |
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, and liberal models. We find that two types of institutional logics—affordance and homogenization—shape the amount and type of public-service-oriented news. On average, public-service-oriented news was highest at civil-society-owned media, but there was significant variation within this category: We call this kind of institutional logic an affordance logic because it affords but does not guarantee a certain kind of news content. Public media, on the other hand, exhibited the least deviation across outlets within each country, thus exemplifying a strong homogenization logic. All forms of ownership, but especially privately held and civil society media, exhibited significant variations across individual organizations. Economic field dominance, as in the United States, did not produce greater homogenization across ownership fields as predicted by field theory
Democracy · Dominance (genetics · Homogenization (climate · Institutional theory · Non profit · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Public service · Social science · Sociology · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Media Studies and Communication · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |