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标题：The Paradoxes of Media Globalization: On the Banal “World” of New Zealand Journalism
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作者：Sean Phelan ; Thomas Owen
期刊名称：International Journal of Communication
印刷版ISSN：1932-8036
出版年度：2010
卷号：4
页码：27
语种：English
出版社：USC Annenberg Center
摘要：Although the New Zealand media system has sometimes been characterized as one of the most globalized in the world, this article explores the paradoxes and limitations of a simplified globalization thesis from the perspective of the banal production and representation of New Zealand news. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of the journalistic field, our analysis is grounded in an empirical description of the relationship between transnational and national news coverage in a three-day sample of content from across the respective sub-fields of print, television, and radio. Our results broadly affirm the paradoxical view that so-called globalization processes seem to be producing more parochial forms of media content, though we balk at concluding that globalization is a “virtually useless” concept. Instead, we demonstrate how global, national, and institutional logics are being rearticulated as part of an ongoing political-economic and discursive reconfiguration of the New Zealand journalistic field.