TY - JOUR
AU - Burke, Barbara Ruth
AB - Andrew Calabrese and Barbara Ruth Burke American Identities: the Media, Nationalism, and the Public Sphere Introduction This draws a link between the construction and maintenance of paper American and identities and the nature of mass communication myths sys- tems in the United States. In we discuss some but it, generally recognized limitations of and for the use of mass media arguable existing possibilities alternatives. Mass media in- institutions and and we assess technologies, stitutions are central to the American it would be although public sphere, deterministic to that are the exclusive means they technologically suggest which American identities are created or maintained. Other means- by the institutions of and the education, religion, family, government, activities of work and and the immediate contexts of recreation, spatial and too numerous and com- neighborhood, community, municipality-are to discuss in the of a so are the numerous Indeed, plex span single paper. dimensions and of the media’s role in and influ- complexities punctuating our lives. The more modest of this is to describe one encing goal paper essential tension while it not be to American which, may unique society, has roots here. The mass media, certainly deep particularly newspapers, and a to claim 
TI - American Identities: Nationalism, the Media, and the Public Sphere
JF - Journal of Communication Inquiry
DO - 10.1177/019685999201600205
DA - 1992-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/american-identities-nationalism-the-media-and-the-public-sphere-AeJ4Jwg9Hj
SP - 52
EP - 73
VL - 16
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -