Rodney BensonRodney Benson is Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of border: 1pt none windowtext;">Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison (Cambridge, 2013), winner of the 2014 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Tankard Book Award and the 2015 International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book of the Decade Award. Benson is also co-editor (with Erik Neveu) of Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field (Polity 2005; Chinese translation, Zhejiang University Press 2017). His research and theoretical interests include comparative media systems, sociology of news, production of culture, field theory, media ownership, and framing and content analysis. His articles have appeared in the American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, American Behavioral Scientist, Journalism, Political Communication, Journal of Communication, and many other leading academic journals. Benson holds a PhD in sociology from the University of California-Berkeley and an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University. Read More Read Less