Forming the Public

A Critical History of Journalism in the United States

AvFrank D. Durham,Thomas P. Oates

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Throughout United States history, journalists and media workers have mobilized to promote and oppose various movements in public life. But a single meaning of the public remains elusive. Frank D. Durham and Thomas P. Oates provide an eye-opening analysis of the role played by journalism in the ongoing struggle to shape and transform ideas about the public. Using historical episodes and news reports, Durham and Oates offer examples of the influential words and images deployed by not only journalists but by media workers and activists. Their analysis moves from the patriot-inflamed emotions of the revolutionary period to the conventional and creative ways the American Indian Movement confronted the mainstream with their grievances. Weaving eyewitness history through US history, Forming the Public reveals what understanding the journalism landscape can teach us about the nature of journalism’s own interests in race, gender, and class while tracing the factors that shaped the contours of dominant American culture.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-12-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:History of Media and Communication
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:University of Illinois Press
ISBN:9780252046506

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Frank Durham is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. Thomas Oates is an associate professor in the department of American Studies and an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and at the University of Iowa. His books include Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction Creating an American Public Interest Writing against Slavery: The Abolitionist Press The Long Struggle for Women’s Suffrage The Haymarket Riot and the Rights of Labor Reconstruction, Lynching, and Ida B. Wells’s Crusade for Justice Dreams and Nightmares of Empire La Raza and the Rangers: Competing Narratives of Citizenship and Policing on the Borderlands What Is Democracy? Lippmann, Bernays, and Public Opinion What Is “Americanism”? The Second Red Scare Civil Rights and the Spectacle of Southern Racism The Black Panthers and the Young Lords: Anti-imperialist and Anti-capitalist Journalism The American Indian Movement and Indigenous Peoples’ Media Strategies Conclusion: The Ongoing Struggle to Define the Public Notes Index