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$40.00
Oct 31, 2023 | ISBN 9780262549660
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May 04, 2018 | ISBN 9780262345835
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Table Of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1 Introduction 1
2 What Kind of Press Freedom Does Democracy Need? 11
The Idea of Democratic Autonomy 13
Free Speech and Democratic Autonomy 18
The Argument from Truth 20
The Argument from Democracy 23
A Structural View of the Press, Press Freedom, and an Affirmative
First Amendment 27
The Institutional Press 29
U.S. Supreme Court Press Decisions 32
Protecting Publics against Censorship 33
Regulating Access to Information 35
Regulating Press Structures in Public Interests 36
The Democratic Value of Listening 39
Conclusion 43
3 How Has the Press Historically Made Its Freedom? 45
The Press as a Field 47
Bourdieu’s Field Theory 50
Bourdieu’s Journalistic Field 54
The New Institutionalist Press 59
Press Autonomy as Negotiated Separations and Dependencies 65
Autonomy through Institutionalized Objectivity 65
Autonomy through Organizational Routine and Ritual 76
Autonomy through Bracketing Publics 85
Conclusion 95
4 How Is Networked Press Freedom a Question of Infrastructure? 99
Broadcast Era Press Freedom 100
Computational Influences on Press Freedom 102
Social Media and Press Freedom 104
Press Freedom as Sociotechnical, Infrastructural Work 110
Conclusion 117
5 How Free Is the Networked Press? 121
Dimensions of Networked Press Freedom 123
Observation 125
Production 127
Alignments 129
Labor 134
Analytics 137
Timing 142
Security 151
Audiences 155
Revenue 162
Facts 171
Resemblances 177
Affect 179
Conclusion 181
6 Conclusion 183
Appendix: A Discussion of Method 193
Notes 195
References 237
Index 285
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