Troubled Pasts - News And the Collective Memory of Social Unrest

Klappentext Describes the ways that the news media influences the development of our public past and how those publicly available pasts affect our understanding of current events Zusammenfassung Tells how collective memories of troubled pasts emerge in public discourse and how these memories shape the representation of events. This work explores relationships among political leaders, journalists, and citizens, and explores how competing frameworks of memory are synthesized or abandoned in response to power relationships and events. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction; 2: Real Time News: Covering the Watts Riots and the Chicago Convention; 3: Political Officials and the Public Past; 4: Defusing Controversy and Paving the Way for Collective Memory; 5: Building Collective Memory: Story Integration; 6: Using Collective Memory: The Role of the Past in the Present; 7: Conclusions: The Future of the Past

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jill Edy, Jill A. Edy
• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.07.2006
• EAN: 9781592134960
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-496-0
• Seiten: 230
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Kommunikationswissenschaft; Anthropologie, Politische Ideologien