Forming the Public
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Frederick Douglass
Henry Morton Stanley
Huey Newton
Ida B. Wells
imperialism
Jim Crow
Joseph Pulitzer
Jovita Idar
Jr.
Lucy Parsons
lynching
Mark Twain
Martin Luther King
miscegenation
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public interest
public relations
Ralph McGill
red scare
Samuel Adams
socialism
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Susan B. Anthony
The Black Panther
Walter Lippman
William Lloyd Garrison
William Randolph Hearst
Young Lords
Product details
- ISBN 9780252046506
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Dec 2024
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Throughout United States history, journalists and media workers have mobilized to promote and oppose various movements in public life. But a single meaning of the public remains elusive. Frank D. Durham and Thomas P. Oates provide an eye-opening analysis of the role played by journalism in the ongoing struggle to shape and transform ideas about the public. Using historical episodes and news reports, Durham and Oates offer examples of the influential words and images deployed by not only journalists but by media workers and activists. Their analysis moves from the patriot-inflamed emotions of the revolutionary period to the conventional and creative ways the American Indian Movement confronted the mainstream with their grievances.
Weaving eyewitness history through US history, Forming the Public reveals what understanding the journalism landscape can teach us about the nature of journalism’s own interests in race, gender, and class while tracing the factors that shaped the contours of dominant American culture.
Frank Durham is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. Thomas Oates is an associate professor in the department of American Studies and an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and at the University of Iowa. His books include Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL.
