Newspaper Confessions
A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 October 2021
- ISBN 9780197527788
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 160x239x27 mm
- Weight 458 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 black and white halftones 145
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Short description:
The first book to trace the history of early advice columns in American newspapers, Newspaper Confessions reveals how advice columnists and contributors established the idea of the virtual confessional to ease the anxieties of modern life, creating a genre that continues to shape the way Americans talk publicly and anonymously about their feelings today.
MoreLong description:
What can century-old advice columns tell us about the Internet today? This book reveals the little-known history of advice columns in American newspapers and the virtual communities they created among their readers.
Imagine a community of people who had never met writing into a media outlet, day after day, to reveal intimate details about their lives, anxieties, and hopes. The original "virtual communities" were born not on the Internet in chat rooms but a century earlier in one of America's most ubiquitous news features: the advice column.
Newspaper Confessions is the first history of the newspaper advice column, a genre that has shaped Americans' relationships with media, their experiences with popular therapy, and their virtual interactions across generations. Emerging in the 1890s, advice columns became unprecedented virtual forums where readers could debate the most resonant cultural crises of the day with strangers in an anonymous, yet strikingly public, forum. Early advice columns are essential-and overlooked-precursors to today's digital culture: forums, social media groups, chat rooms, and other online communities that define how present-day American communicate with each other.
By charting the economic and cultural motivations behind the rise of this influential genre, Julie Golia offers a nuanced analysis of the advice given by a diverse sample of columns across several decades, emphasizing the ways that advice columnists framed their counsel as modern, yet upheld the racial and gendered status quo of the day. She offers lively, surprising, and poignant case studies, demonstrating how columnists and everyday newspaper readers transformed advice columns into active and participatory virtual communities of confession, advice, debate, and empathy.
Golia...succeeds...[in] showing that advice columns deserve respect as a journalistic form and as a tool for community building in the modernizing United States....Golia's account offers a corrective for predominantly masculine narratives of journalism's professionalization.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ch. 1: Making Advice Modern: The Birth of the Newspaper Advice Column
Ch. 2: America's Confessional: Early Twentieth-Century Advice Columns and their Readers
Ch. 3: Queen of Heartaches: The Newspaper Advice Columnist as Icon and Journalist
Ch. 4: Advising the Race: Princess Mysteria and the Black Feminist Advice Tradition
Ch. 5: The Modern "Experience": Loneliness, Interactivity, and the Virtual Community
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
