Format:
1 online resource (232 pages)
,
illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:
9780197527818
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
"Newspaper Confessions chronicles the history of the newspaper advice column, a genre that has shaped Americans' relationships with media, their experiences with popular therapy, and their virtual interactions across generations. Emerging in the 1890s, advice columns became unprecedented virtual forums where readers could debate the most resonant cultural crises of the day with strangers in an anonymous yet public forum. The columns are important - and overlooked - precursors to today's digital culture: forums, social media groups, chat rooms, and other online communities that define how present-day American communicate with each other. This book charts the rise of the advice column and its impact on the newspaper industry. It analyzes the advice given by a diverse sample of columns across several decades, emphasizing the ways that advice columnists framed their counsel as modern, yet upheld the racial and gendered status quo of the day. It shows how advice columnists were forerunners to the modern celebrity journalist, while also serving as educators to audience of millions. This book includes in-depth case studies of specific columns, demonstrating how these forums transformed into active and participatory virtual communities of confession, advice, debate, and empathy"--
Note:
Also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 24, 2021)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780197527788
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Golia, Julie Newspaper confessions New York : Oxford University Press, 2021 ISBN 9780197527788
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780197527788.001.0001
