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

Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) Contents 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 Summary How the media shape collective memory and use that memory to shape our understanding of current events Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr00008089 Democratic National Convention fast Subject 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 POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Long-term memory Politics and government Riots Social change Social conditions Social movements Social problems Social problems in mass media SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410 United States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511 Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Social conditions Subject California -- Los Angeles California -- Los Angeles -- Watts United States Form Electronic book LC no. 2005056875 ISBN 159213498X 9781592134984 1281299073 9781281299079 9786611299071 6611299076

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