New York University

Faculty Member, Media, Culture and Communication

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

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Rodney Benson is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is also an affiliated faculty member in the NYU Dept. of Sociology and has been a visiting scholar or invited lecturer at universities in France (Toulouse IEP, Paris EHESS), Germany (Universities of Bremen and Weimar), Denmark (Copenhagen Business School, Roskilde University), and Norway (University of Oslo).

Benson's research lies at the intersection of the sociology of culture, the sociology of globalization, political communication, and journalism studies. He has published articles on comparative media research, media and immigration, the U.S. and French (and other European) news media, and the theories of Bourdieu and Habermas in journals such as Press/Politics, The American Sociologist, Poetics, Political Communication, American Sociological Review, European Journal of Communication, Media, Culture & Society, Theory and Society, French Politics, Culture & Society, and Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. His book, Framing Immigration: How the French and American Media Shape Public Debate, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Benson is also co-editor (with Erik Neveu) of Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field (Cambridge: Polity, 2005) and has written book chapters on U.S. alternative newsweeklies in Contesting Media Power (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003, J. Curran and N. Couldry, eds.), comparative media research in The Routledge  Companion to News Media and Journalism Studies (Routledge, 2009, S. Allan, ed.), and journalism and the internet in New Media, Old News (Sage, 2009, N. Fenton, ed.).

He has also written articles for Le Monde Diplomatique, the Christian Science Monitor, the Columbia Journalism Review, and In These Times.

Prior to joining the NYU faculty, he was assistant professor of international communications and sociology at The American University of Paris. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of California-Berkeley.

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