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The Newseum and Collective Memory: Narrowed Choices, Limited Voices, and Rhetoric of Freedom
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Using the concepts of collective memory, the public sphere, and political econ omy, this article examined the narrative of the Newseum, the Freedom Forum's museum of the news.Abstract:
Using the concepts of collective memory, the public sphere, and political econ omy, this article critically examines the narrative of the Newseum, the Freedom Forum's museum of the news. This article contends that the Newseum presents a narrative that is unresponsive to real criticism of the press, limits visitors' ability to explore alternative ideas, and does so while invoking collective memory and a rhetoric of freedom.read more
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You Must Remember this@@@Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture.
Louis P. Masur,Michael Kammen +1 more
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Participatory Media and Discourse in Heritage Museums: Co‐constructing the Public Sphere?
TL;DR: The authors examines public discourse that visitors produce as part of their visit to a heritage museum, in the form of texts written on notes in response to the museum's questions, and theorizes visitors' inscriptional activities in terms of current views of participation and the public sphere.
“Try to Lift Someone Else as We Climb”: 120 Years of the Women’s Press Club of Pittsburgh and the Women’s Movement
Carter Olson,S Candi +1 more
TL;DR: The Women's Press Club of Pittsburgh (WPCP) as discussed by the authors was one of the earliest women's press clubs, founded in 1891, which allowed women to fly hot air balloons, cover both WWI and WWII, fund scholarships for younger women, stand up to racism within their own ranks, and were some of the first women to enter post-game locker rooms with male sports reporters.
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From noted ‘phenomenon’ to ‘missing person’: A case of the historical construction of the unter-journalist
TL;DR: This article argued that the history of journalism is largely devoid of the lived experiences of the majority of its practitioners, arguing that journalists disappear from history when they step outside the domains of valorized media institutions and journalism hierarchies that contribute to notions such as the Fourth Estate.
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Moral discourse and argumentation in the public sphere: Museums and their visitors
TL;DR: This article explored museum questions and visitors responses in a large Jewish cultural/heritage museum in the United States and found that visitors' responses reflected the dramatic quality inherent to moral scenes and selectively addressed the moral Actor, Action and Motive as parts of the social moral drama they evaluated.
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How Societies Remember
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an account of how bodily practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions, and argue that images of the past and recollected knowledge are conveyed and sustained by ritual performances and that performative memory is bodily.
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On Collective Memory
Maurice Halbwachs,Lewis A. Coser +1 more
TL;DR: The first comprehensive English-language translation of Halbwachs' writings on the social construction of memory was published by Coser as mentioned in this paper, which fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge.
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The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics
TL;DR: The Birth of the Museum as mentioned in this paper explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors, and sheds new light upon the relationship between modern forms of official and popular culture.
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The Media Monopoly
Jill Beerman,Ben H. Bagdikian +1 more
TL;DR: The best ebooks about media monopoly that you can get for free here by download this Media Monopoly and save to your desktop as mentioned in this paper, are under topic such as the new media monopoly paolo cirio media@lse electronic working papers