Publications

• Rodney Benson. Framing Immigration: How the French and American Media Shape Public Debate (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2008).
• Rodney Benson and Erik Neveu, Eds. Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2005). (link)
• Rodney Benson and Daniel C. Hallin. “How States, Markets and Globalization Shape the News: The French and U.S. National Press, 1965-1997.” European Journal of Communication 22, 1 (March 2007): 27-48. (view)
• Rodney Benson. “News Media as a ‘Journalistic Field’: What Bourdieu adds to New Institutionalism, and Vice Versa.” Political Communication 23, 2 (2006): 187-202. (view)
• Rodney Benson and Abigail C. Saguy. “Constructing Social Problems in an Age of Globalization: A French-American Comparison.” American Sociological Review 70, 2 (2005): 233-259. (view)
• Rodney Benson. “Bringing the Sociology of Media Back In.” Political Communication, 21 (2004): 275-292 (Lead article in special issue on “Political Communication and Sociology”). (view)
• Rodney Benson. “La fin du Monde?: Tradition and Change in the French Press.” French Politics,Culture & Society 22, 1 (2004): 108-126. (view)
• Rodney Benson. “The political/literary model of French journalism: Change and continuity in immigration coverage, 1973-1991.” Journal of European Area Studies 10, 1 (2002): 49-70. (view)
• Rodney Benson. “Tearing down the ‘Wall’ in American Journalism.” Core: International Journal of the Humanities (Paris) 1, 1 (2001). (Published in French originally, as: “La logique du profit dans les médias américains.” Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 131-132 (2000): 107-115. (view)
• Rodney Benson. “Field theory in comparative context: a new paradigm for media studies.” Theory and Society 28, 3 (1999): 463-498. (view)
• Rodney Benson. “Normative Theories of Journalism.” Contribution to The Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Communication (Wolfgang Donsbach, ed.), in press, forthcoming 2007. (view)
• Rodney Benson. “Commercialism and Critique: California’s Alternative Weeklies.” In J. Curran and N. Couldry, eds., Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003): 111-127. (view)
• Rodney Benson. “American journalism and the politics of diversity.” Media, Culture & Society 27, 1 (2005): 1-20.
• Rodney Benson. “Mapping Field Variation: Journalism in France and the United States.” In R. Benson and E. Neveu, eds., Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2005): 85-112. (view)
• Rodney Benson. “The Mediated Public Sphere: A Model for Cross-National Research.” Working Paper #2001-7, Center for the Study of Culture, Organizations and Politics. University of California, Berkeley(2001). (link)
• Rodney Benson. “Journalism, French and American Style.” On-Line Interview with Jay Rosen, “Pressthink” website, December 2003. (link)
• Rodney Benson and Aurora Wallace. “Space, Place, and the Changing American Mediascape.” In F. Eckardt and Martina Zschocke, eds., MediaCity (Weimar, Germany: Bauhaus University Publishers, 2007): 209-226. (view)
• UNDERGRAD-LEVEL COURSE SYLLABUS: Media and Globalization (view)
• MA COURSE SYLLABUS: Introductory Seminar on Media, Culture, and Communication (view)
• GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSE SYLLABUS: Comparative Media Systems (spring 2007) (view)
• Rodney Benson. Review of Paul Starr’s The Creation of the Media. Archives européennes de sociologie XLVI, 3 (2005): 541-544. (view)
• Rodney Benson. Review of Pablo Boczkowski’s Digitizing the News. New Media & Society 7 (2005): 854-857. (view)
• Rodney Benson. Review of John David Skrentny’s (ed.) Color Lines and Joel Fetzer’s Public Attitudes toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany. Public Opinion Quarterly 67, 2 (2003): 304-310. (view)