Keeping history together: the role of social memory in the nature and functions of news

Authors

  • Carolyn Kitch Temple University

Keywords:

Memory. Journalism. Narrative. Photography. Commemoration.

Abstract

Over the past three decades, memory studies have drawn the interest of scholars across the globe and across disciplines, including my own field of journalism. This perspective has provided a seemingly new theoretical lens through which to view news production, content, and audiences. Yet memory always has been implicit in the nature and function of journalism. This essay discusses five ways of understanding present journalism in terms of its uses of the past.

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Author Biography

Carolyn Kitch, Temple University

is a Professor of Journalism at Temple University and the author of three books; The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media, Pages from the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines and Journalism in a Culture of Grief (co-authored with Janice Hume). She is a former magazine editor and writer.
Memória

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Published

2011-01-21

Issue

No. 10 (2011): Memória

Section

Artigos