Bourdieu is oftentimes "misread as a theorist" (Waqcuant, 2018: 649) and the uses of the French sociologist in Media and Communication Studies has been fragmented in character.

This presentation posits Bourdieu's field theory as a holistic research program that can be deployed to answer important questions in Media and Communication Studies.

A particular focus is put on the method of multiple correspondence analysis – a method whose philosophy, according to Bourdieu, "entirely corresponds to what social reality is in my view".