Michael O. Johnston

Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest (eBook, ePUB)

Reconstructing the Mississippi River

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest explores an annual interstate tug-of-war between two small towns along the Mississippi River. In this book, Johnston examines how media shapes place and identity of people at this festival. In writing this book, he conducted analysis of a ten year period of media coverage, and found that the experience people have while attending Tug Fest is quite different than what is said in classic novels about life on the Mississippi River.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666908787
• Artikelnr.: 64844288

Autorenporträt

Michael O. Johnston is assistant professor of sociology at William Penn University, the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest, and a host for New Books in Sociology (a channel on New Books Network).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Birth of a Tug Fest
Chapter 1: The Making of Place and Identity in the Midwest
Chapter 2: Kiddy Tug, Farm Boys, and Beefy Women: Identity and Body
Politics
Chapter 3: Hands Covered in Resin: Party Tourism or Sport Tourism
Chapter 4: The Tides that Bind and Unravel: The Social Construction of
Environment
Chapter 5: More than Just a Map Dot: Globalization and Tourism
Conclusion: The Mississippi River All but Lost Its Wild
Afterword: Tug Tied
Appendix
References
About the Author