Off the top of my head, I'd start in the 1970s and trace the long arc of political polarization & social divisions with an eye to the ways in which an increasingly fragmented media landscape drove such changes. Hey, look at this: https://www.amazon.com/Fault-Lines-History-United-States/dp/0393088669 …https://twitter.com/jackmjenkins/status/1047517293922734083 …
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No one date works perfectly, but 1973-1975 sees Watergate, the end of Vietnam, the OPEC embargo, the Boston busing riots, etc etc.
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Nixon was pardon in September, 1974. Gerald Ford was a decent man & surely he meant well but one can argue the undeserving pardon of Nixon really kicked off the downward spiral.
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For fragmented media, I'd go back much further — even to the pre-Revolutionary War runup. Stanford's Prof James Hamilton (
@StanfordJourn) also dug into how the increasing costs of the printing press led to centrism in media in the late 1800s/early 1900sThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I agree w Kim, why 1970s? Media fragmentation was happening decades, if not centuries, before then.
@KevinMKruse I highly recommend this piece from Jill Lepore abt political and technological disruption. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/sunday-review/politics-disruption-media-technology.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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