Journalism as Practice
Didion calls this the traditional ways in which power is exchanged and the status quo maintained in the U.S. The behind-the-scenes of the story. A “social world” consisting of journalists, campaign staff, consultants, etc.
"The process"
Material and financial assets
Economic Capital
Creating multiple accounts, using pseudonyms/nicknames, self-censorship and strategically concealing information are all examples of...
Tactics to navigate context collapse.
Knowledge that is taken for granted, or seen as common sense
tacit knowledge / tacit understanding
Scarce symbolic goods, knowledge, skills, and titles. All the advantages you have by way of knowing certain things.
Cultural Capital
Being able to talk ‘intelligently’ about contemporary art. Having the ‘right’ manners for a dinner party with business leaders. Knowing how to talk and act like a scientist. These are all examples of.....
Cultural Capital
The story told by the insiders, made up of tacit agreements to overlook what’s observable in the interest of obtaining that dramatic storyline
"The narrative"
Resources accrued by virtue of membership in a group or network. These are the advantages that people accrue through who they know.
Social capital
Parents enrolling their kids into piano lessons and extra-curricular activities is an example of them trying to give their kids ____.
In the Didion text, she describes how in exchange for ______, political journalists tell the story that the campaign wants to be told (and to present it as fact)
Status, honor, and prestige that people gain when the advantages from their other forms of capital aren’t recognized
Symbolic Capital
A newly rich person uses their money to participate in the art world. What is this an example of?
Capital Conversion. (ie. people trying to convert one species of capital into another)