Journalism and Memory [electronic resource] /
Zelizer, B.editor.
Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K.editor.
Tracking the ways in which journalism and memory mutually support, undermine, repair and challenge each other, this fascinating collection brings together leading scholars in journalism and memory studies to investigate the complicated role that journalism plays in relation to the past.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Table; Notes on Contributors; Journalism's Memory Work; Part I: Trajectories of Journalism and Memory; 1 Reflections on the Underdeveloped Relations between Journalism and Memory Studies; 2 Memory as Foreground, Journalism as Background; 3 Shifting the Politics of Memory: Mnemonic Trajectories in a Global Public Terrain; 4 Collective Memory in a Post-Broadcast World; Part II: Domains of Journalism and Memory; Journalism and Narrative Memory; 5 Journalism as a Vehicle of Non-Commemorative Cultural Memory
6 Counting Time: Journalism and the Temporal Resource7 Reversed Memory: Commemorating the Past through Coverage of the Present; Journalism and Visual Memory; 8 Hands and Feet: Photojournalism, the Fragmented Body Politic and Collective Memory; 9 Journalism, Memory and the 'Crowd-Sourced Video Revolution'; 10 The Journalist as Memory Assembler: Non-Memory, the War on Terror and the Shooting of Osama Bin Laden; 11 A New Memory of War; Journalism and Institutional Memory; 12 The Late News: Memory Work as Boundary Work in the Commemoration of Television Journalists
13 American Journalism's Conventions and Cultures, 1863-2013: Changing Representations of the Gettysburg Address14 Historical Authority and the 'Potent Journalistic Reputation': A Longer View of Legacy-Making in American News Media; 15 Argentinean Torturers on Trial: How Are Journalists Covering the Hearings' Memory Work?; Epilogue; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Tracking the ways in which journalism and memory mutually support, undermine, repair and challenge each other, this fascinating collection brings together leading scholars in journalism and memory studies to investigate the complicated role that journalism plays in relation to the past.
Historiography.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Communication.
Memory Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Journalism.
Media and Communication.
Sociology of Culture.
Media Studies.