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TV and the Propaganda Crisis

August 10, 2015
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TV and the Propaganda Crisis

Deborah Jaramillo engages with Emma Louise Briant's new book, Propaganda and Counter-terrorism: Strategies for Global Change, to explore how the prickly world of government propagandists lends critical context to television representations of espionage and the War on Terror.
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Young Faces, Fast Cars, and the Other NBCs

April 15, 2013
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Young Faces, Fast Cars, and the Other NBCs

Grandpa Peacock may be floundering, but the kids—MSNBC and NBC Sports Network—are holding their own.
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Secretarial Work and Women’s Clubs: Finding Women in the Archive

November 12, 2012
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Secretarial Work and Women’s Clubs: Finding Women in the Archive

An exploration of the connection between the archive, archival research, and feminism.
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Occupy TV?

October 12, 2011
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Occupy TV?

A look at the differences between how Occupy Wall Street is framed on Fox News, MSNBC, and the Daily Show versus how greater, more diverse coverage circulates on Twitter.
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Fighting Ephemerality: The 9/11 Television News Archive

October 10, 2011
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Fighting Ephemerality: The 9/11 Television News Archive

The archive has a tremendous role to play in helping researchers reconstruct the past as seen on television, but it also helps us pinpoint precisely how history's televised narrative is already a construct—a carefully crafted and complex set of signs and symbols.
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