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Troubled pasts : news and the collective memory of social unrest / Jill A. Edy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edy, Jill A., 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Long-term memory--United States.
- Long-term memory.
- Riots--California--Los Angeles.
- Riots.
- Social change--United States.
- Social change.
- Social movements--United States.
- Social movements.
- Social problems in mass media.
- Social problems--United States.
- Social problems.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Social conditions.
- Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.).
- Democratic National Convention.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A nation's collective memory does not simply exist. It is created. But what factors influence its form and content? And what roles do the news media play in fashioning our collective memory? Here Jill A. Edy observes the process of negotiating a meaning for the past as it unfolds in the news, exploring the ways that news practices, the relationships between actors who make the news, the expectations of news audiences, and the impact of current events affect the development of collective memories in a mass society.Using the 1965 Watts riots and the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago as case
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Real-Time News: Covering the Watts Riots and the Chicago Convention; Political Officials and the Public Past; Defusing Controversy and Paving the Way for Collective Memory; Building Collective Memory: Story Integration; Using Collective Memory: The Role of the Past in the Present; Conclusions: The Future of the Past; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611299071
- 9781281299079
- 1281299073
- 9781592134984
- 159213498X
- OCLC:
- 476153677
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