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Titre
Fields of conflict : Journalism in the construction of Sydney as a global city 1983-2008
Sujet
media, journalism, global city, world city, urban sociology, globalisation, Bourdieu Pierre
Description
This thesis examines the relationship between media reporting and Sydney's construction as a global city over the period 1983-2008. Following Friedmann, Sassen and others it views globalisation as a process of consolidation in command and control functions in the global economy, financed through the massive creation of liquidity via expanding debt, and enabled by producer services located in a network of ‘global cities’. Theoretically, it considers major debates in urban sociology and the sociology of journalism and seeks to reconcile approaches in the two fields to achieve a theoretically coherent framework for analysis that can encompass the changing political economy of Sydney and the ways in which media representation is related to this process. In globalisation studies it examines the meta-theoretical post-industrial/ network society arguments associated with Bell and Castells, and compares them with the neo-Marxist spatiality theses associated with Harvey and Arrighi, and Foster and Magdoff on financialisation. It then discusses the global cities literature in the context of Australian urban studies. In media sociology it starts with the debate about source-journalist power relations. Following Schlesinger and Benson, it offers a critical evaluation of Bourdieu's field theory. It then adopts a framework drawing on Bourdieu, together with Harvey and Lefebvre on spatiality and Gell on temporality, to consider the complexity of dynamic power relations between journalists and other sources of power. There follow two complementary empirical case studies of communication contests over (i) debt-induced growth in the Sydney residential real estate market and (ii) the demutualisation of the largest Australian general insurer, NRMA Insurance Group Ltd. The case studies examine the differing field relations of journalistic reporting and investigation of those activities in select newspapers. It argues that the journalism was deeply engaged with and/or influenced by the interests and activities of its sources in the primary field of concern, with power being exercised in both directions but overall in the structural interests of powerful sources, though not necessarily in their personal interests. The thesis concludes with an assessment of Bourdieu's field theory in the light of the analyses, and advocates a more reflexive understanding of relations within and among fields, particularly with respect to orthodoxy/heterodoxy, autonomy/heteronomy and symbolic violence.
Créateur
Nash, Christopher John
Éditeur
University of New South Wales - Sydney (Australie)
Date
2010
Contributeur
Pixley, Jocelyn. Supervisor
Jones, Paul. Supervisor
Langue
en
Type
Thesis
Identifiant
http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/50802
http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/966
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