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Introduction: Textures and Porosities of Journalistic Fields

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This chapter starts with an analysis of debates in leading US and German media outlets about the Snowden revelations of the difference between journalism and advocacy. It shows that these examples of journalistic metadiscourse are filtered through specific lenses of each occupational culture. This chapter then presents the theoretical framework of the analysis, which is mainly based on cultural sociology and field theory. A quick discussion of the data and methods used in this study is followed by an overview of the book, including its main findings.

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Revers, M. (2017). Introduction: Textures and Porosities of Journalistic Fields. In: Contemporary Journalism in the US and Germany. Cultural Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51537-7_1

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