[ecrea] > MedieKultur - call for papers: Bourdieu and The Media – New and old Media practices from a field perspective

> MedieKultur - call for papers: Bourdieu and The Media – New and old 
Media practices from a field perspective

>
Submission deadline: August 15, 2014
Publication deadline: Spring 2015

Editors: Ida Willig (guest), Karen Waltorp (guest), Jannie Møller Hartley

Bourdieu’s field theory has proven useful in a variety of research 
areas, and constitutes a promising theoretical frame for analysis of the 
media. However there is a lack of empirical research exploring the 
usefulness of field theory specifically in relation to new media, but 
also relative to media practices in general, where it might constitute a 
relevant alternative to other sociological perspectives.

In his comprehensive work, Pierre Bourdieu only briefly touched on the 
importance of media for social practice, namely in his bookPhotography 
as a Middle Brow Art (1900), and the polemic and much criticized book On 
Television (1995), which is the closest attempt to analyzing the 
influence of a specific media platform. Although its sweeping 
conclusions, On Television build on Bourdieu’s many other studies, it 
has been necessary for scholars exploring media practices to develop 
field theory into a more comprehensive and nuanced media theory that 
allows for the analysis of media reception, media content and media 
production, as is the case, for example, in the development of the 
concept of a media meta-capital (Couldry, 2003), or in studies analyzing 
the journalistic field (see Benson & Neveu, 2005; Schultz, 2006; Wiik, 
2010). However, few studies have explored the usefulness of field theory 
within a new media context, as done, for example, by Baym (2000) when 
she examines the social organization of, and struggles over, meaning 
within an online cultural system via ethnographic studies of online 
communities. Thus there is a need to develop the field theory framework 
further to enhance our empirical understanding of new media and new 
media practices. It is likely though that Bourdieu would not consider 
new media as a decisive break with the hitherto known forms of 
communication, as he sees the institutionalization of fields in line 
with what new-institutionalism denotes as "path-dependency", which is 
the fact that previous historical battles, to some extent, have a 
limiting effect on the future. Despite this, field theory, according to 
Benson and Neveu, provides a good starting point to investigate what 
they call "the complex relationship between new and old media" (2005, p. 
8). In this issue we ask how field theory can provide analytic tools for 
understanding media and media practices and in which ways field theory 
has been - or could potentially be - developed in accordance with the 
new media realities.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

a. Applied/empirical studies using Bourdieu and Field Theory in regard 
to the production of, the content on, or the usage of: different media 
platforms (old media vs. new), mass media (e.g., newspapers, TV, radio, 
internet etc.), interaction media (e.g., mobile phones, Messenger, 
e-mail, Web 2.0 etc.) or social media (e.g., YouTube, Wikipedia, 
Facebook, Twitter etc.).

b. Methodological contributions discussing field theory in relation to 
both new and old media practices.

c. Discussions of field theory and Bourdieu’s concepts/theory of media 
in comparison with other media theories.

d. Studies of the use of media or media reception analysis in for 
example journalism, education, organizations, art, political activism etc.

e. Studies of the media and media practices or the development of 
specific media “fields” from a historical perspective.


> MedieKultur publishes theme issues with the aim of bringing nordic 
and international media and communication research into dialogue. 
MedieKultur is a double-blind peer reviewed international journal 
published by SMID (Association of media researchers in 
Denmark).Accordingly, MedieKultur is a publication forum for both Danish 
and international researchers, and papers as well as reviews of relevant 
contributions (books, blogs, websites and the like) can be submitted 
written in English, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian. The journal addresses 
students, educators and researchers at relevant educational and research 
institutions as well as individuals working in the media business.
>
> You can find more info at : 
http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/index
>
> With this issue of Bourdieu and the Media we encourage international 
researchers to contribute to the journal so that the scope of discussion 
of the relevance of field theory in media and communication research 
will be as broad as possible.
>
> Regards from the editors, Ida Willig, Jannie Møller Hartley and Karen 
Waltorp.

Jannie Møller Hartley | Adjunkt, Ph.d. Journalist | Journalistik | CBIT 
| Roskilde Universitet
Webredaktør Foreningen for Undersøgende Journalistik: Fuj.dk
Redaktionsmedlem MedieKultur.dk
(jath /at/ ruc.dk)

Assistant Professor  | Journalism | CBIT | Roskilde University
Building 40.3 | Box 260 | 4000 Roskilde | Denmark
Phone: (+45) 4674 37 53
Email: (jath /at/ ruc.dk)




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