Newspapers do more than provide information. They enter into the
process of forming communities, from voluntary associations to
cities to nation-states.
Widely acknowledged as one of our most insightful commentators
on the history of American journalism, David Paul Nord offers a
lively and wide-ranging discussion of journalism as a vital
component of community. In settings ranging from the
religion-infused towns of colonial America to the rapidly expanding
urban metropolises of the late nineteenth century, Nord explores
the cultural work of the press.
Nord perceives the daily press as an arena in which a broad
cross-section of the populace -- ethnically diverse, geographically
diffuse, and economically stratified -- could participate in a
common culture. During times of crisis, such as the yellow fever
epidemic that gripped Philadelphia in 1793, newspapers sustained
the bonds of community life. Amassing concrete historical evidence,
Nord also examines how ordinary readers make sense of what they
read and how they use journalism to form community attachments and
engage in civic life.
Illuminating how newspapers have intersected with religion,
politics, reform, and urban life over nearly three centuries,
Communities of Journalism is a deeply satisfying contribution to
the cultural history of American journalism and to the history of
reading.
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