Troubled pasts : news and the collective memory of social unrest /

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

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, e...

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Main Author: Edy, Jill A., 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Democratic National Convention > (1968 : > Chicago, Ill.)
Social problems > United States.
Social change > United States.
Social movements > United States.
Social problems in mass media.
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965.
Long-term memory > United States.
Social movements.
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Social conditions.
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Social conditions.

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Call Number: HN59.2 .E28 2006
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