Making and Circulating the News in an Illiberal Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4156815 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy F Cott (Harvard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 599-609 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jax310 |
| OpenAlex | W2770703098 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The 2017 Organization of American Historians conference theme of “circulation” had the virtue of capaciousness, evoking many different potential applications, tangible and intangible, natural and constructed, operating at various scales. Roads around a city, ideas around the world, blood through the body, rumors through a community—all of these circulate. So does news. Circulation is intrinsic to news. That is my topic tonight because we have been living through a transformation in the ways that news is made and promulgated. Digital platforms for breaking news, commentary, and scandal have multiplied—and their potential to propagate access to varied sources of information and misinformation is obvious. The essential network aspect of the “web” means that any information easily reproduces itself and generates links that connect it to similar or related information. The making and the promulgation of news are tied together perhaps more tightly than ever before, in that whatever becomes most intensely circulated and replicated through instantaneous media becomes the most pressing “news.” Thus circulation makes the news, more than simply transmitting it
Advertising · Business · Circulation (fluid dynamics · Internet privacy · Media studies · Misinformation · Natural (archaeology · News media · Political science · Promulgation · Sociology · Theme (computing · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Engineering · History · Law · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |