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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825244703321

Autore

Edy Jill A. <1966->

Titolo

Troubled pasts : news and the collective memory of social unrest / / Jill A. Edy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-281-29907-3

9786611299071

1-59213-498-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

361.10973

Soggetti

Long-term memory - United States

Riots - California - Los Angeles

Social change - United States

Social movements - United States

Social problems in mass media

Social problems - United States

United States Politics and government

United States Social conditions

Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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