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Placing journalism inside memory — and memory studies

Temple University, USA, ckitch{at}temple.edu

This article contends that it is important for scholars to ask what it matters that certain memory stories are told in journalistic prose and format and are received by audiences as `news'. Yet it also suggests that we must understand that journalism works within (not apart from) other cultural memory forms, and that it constructs memory not just with regard to discrete events, but across time and place. Finally, considering parallel debates across disciplines, this article is a call to reassess our definitions of legitimate subjects of study. It argues that scholars should pay attention to forms of journalism beyond elite news organizations and to recognize that journalism is a site of memory construction not only about shocking events, but also about everyday life. Indeed, if we expand our definitions of journalism and of memory, we broaden the relevance and the uses of journalism in memory studies.

Key Words: features • non-elite media • nostalgia • popular culture • intertextuality

Memory Studies, Vol. 1, No. 3, 311-320 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1750698008093796


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