Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest - Softcover

Edy, Jill

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9781592134977: Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest

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Using the Watts riots and the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention as examples, Jill Edy tells how collective memories of troubled pasts emerge in public discourse and how these memories shape the representation of contemporary events.

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How the media shape collective memory and use that memory to shape our understanding of current events

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"Jill Edy provides a fascinating and important contribution to the study of political communication. Using a creative and fruitful research design, she demonstrates the way political actors communicate about the present through the lens of the past." —Katherine Cramer Walsh, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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ISBN 10:  1592134963 ISBN 13:  9781592134960
Publisher: Temple University Press, 2006
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