The Field of Online Journalism: A Bourdieusian Analysis ¹

Networked Press Freedom and Social Media: Tracing Historical and Contemporary Forces in Press-Public Relations

“…Indeed, journalism scholars ( e.g. , Benson and Neveu (); Cook (); Schudson (); Siapera and Spyridou (); Sparrow ()) have reinterpreted Bourdieu's Field Theory (1993) to show how news actually emerges from “loosely coupled arrays of standardized elements” (DiMaggio & Powell, , p. 14): rules and laws that regulate news work ( e.g. , in the U.S. press, the First Amendment, libel law, and shield laws); individual values and professional norms ( e.g.…”

“…Indeed, journalism scholars (e.g., Benson and Neveu (2005); Cook (1998); Schudson (2005a); Siapera and Spyridou (2012); Sparrow (2006)) have reinterpreted Bourdieu's Field Theory (1993) to show how news actually emerges from "loosely coupled arrays of standardized elements" (DiMaggio & Powell, 1991, p. 14):…”

Mapping the sports journalism field: Bourdieu and broadsheet newsrooms

“…In the journalistic field, actors with large amounts of social capital include those with high-level contacts in specialised fields, allowing access to individuals and information (see Bourdieu, 1986;Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1992;Siapera and Spyridou, 2012). Symbolic capital occurs through recognition, acknowledgement or prestige, and involves the journalists' legitimation of their dominance in the field, status or awards (Benson and Neveu, 2005;Bourdieu, 1996;Hovden, 2008;Siapera and Spyridou, 2012). Meyen and Riesmeyer (2012) argue journalistic capital is the combined level of cultural, social and symbolic capital.…”

“…Empirical studies have helped test some of Bourdieu's concepts in France (Champagne and Marchetti, 2005;Duval, 2005), while Hovden (2008) mapped the field in Norway. Online news and journalism have also been investigated (Hartley, 2011;Hartley and Ellersgaard, 2013;Phillips, 2010;Siapera and Spyridou, 2012). Studies of journalists have focused on specialists (Marchetti, 2005), autonomy (Champagne, 2005;Hanitzsch, 2011) and role perceptions (Meyen and Riesmeyer, 2012).…”

Web analytics, social media, and the journalistic doxa : the impact of audience feedback on the evolving gatekeeping process

“…Field theory seeks to study the journalistic field as a whole by accounting for not only the relationships between agents within the field but also the relationship of the journalistic field as a whole with other fields, such as the political and the economic fields. This is why scholars describe field theory as a relational theory (Benson & Neveu, 2005;Siapera & Spyridou, 2012).…”