“Media watch groups” at the crossroads of the journalistic and the intellectual fields

Abstract

In the 1990s, criticism of journalistic production has become a more organized practice, claiming itself as a specific activity. Based on the relational approach of field theory, this article aims to analyze comparatively the social position of media critics in Brazil and France. We will analyze two media criticism groups (Observatório da Imprensa and Acrimed) in order to understand, in relation to properties of the social systems in which they are inserted, the specificities in terms of trajectories and criteria of legitimacy mobilized by these agents.

Media Criticism; Journalism; Cultural Industry; Intellectuals; Culture