'Ask what you can do to the Army': A textual analysis of the underground GI press during the Vietnam War. (September 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'Ask what you can do to the Army': A textual analysis of the underground GI press during the Vietnam War. (September 2019)
- Main Title:
- 'Ask what you can do to the Army': A textual analysis of the underground GI press during the Vietnam War
- Authors:
- Painter, Chad
Ferrucci, Patrick - Abstract:
- This study examined the normative roles of alternative media, focusing on how the underground GI press did or did not serve these roles during the Vietnam War. The researchers conducted a textual analysis of 22 underground GI newspapers published between 1967 and 1973. Four main themes emerged from the analysis: underground GI press writers were decidedly antiwar in the stories they covered and how they wrote about them; GI writers attempted to differentiate grunts from military and civilian leaders; GI writers attempted to build communities with other military personnel as well as civilians; and instances of censorship and persecution were widely reported. The results were then analyzed through the theoretical lens of the monitorial–disseminator, facilitative–mobilizer, radical–adversarial, and collaborative–interpretive roles of media.
- Is Part Of:
- Media, war & conflict. Volume 12:Number 3(2019:Sep.)
- Journal:
- Media, war & conflict
- Issue:
- Volume 12:Number 3(2019:Sep.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 12, Issue 3 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0012-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 354
- Page End:
- 367
- Publication Date:
- 2019-09
- Subjects:
- alternative media -- normative theory -- textual analysis -- underground GI press -- Vietnam War
Mass media and war -- Periodicals
Terrorism and mass media -- Periodicals
War -- Press coverage -- Periodicals
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http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/1750635219836128 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1750-6352
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