The logic of practice in the practice of logics
Elena Raviola Foundations in Management Why this study? What is fascinating about newspapers and news production? Democratic function, higher good, pluralistic organizations. Newspapers are dying. Journalism and news are detouching each other. Professional organizations. Tell about our other Handelsbankens project about news production. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW?
IN PAIRS THINK ABOUT A QUESTION YOU WOULD LIKE TO ASK WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW? The study Organizational ethnography in a financial newspaper in Italy: Il Sole 24 Ore 6 months, 3-5 days per week, September 2007-February 2008 Entrance key (initial research question): Integration project Follow-up during 2 years Generated material: fieldnotes, interviews, some documents Analysis: grounded-theory inspired Show analysis Show how to take field notes Difficulties of the study Relationship with the field access, continuous negotiation, closing and analysis what did they think about this study? Previous studies Conflict between advertising/business and journalism:
State and Church Wall Looking at advertising and journalism as belonging to business people and to journalists, to the company and the newsroom Tuchman (1978): Routinizing the unexpected Theoretical framework
Institutional logics: Critique Institutional work: Bringing in Bourdieus logic of practice to overcome critique to institutional logics and institutional work My analytical model Organizing the material in vignettes Conclusions Two main mechanisms of institutional work:
Classifying divergence in relation to the established practice Classifying divergence in relation to new possibilities Logic of practice opens up new possibilities: Not deterministic relations between logics and practices/work Objects play an important role in opening these possibilities Journalism (logic and work) is constantly in a liminal zone and fighting to defend itself