This session is sponsored by the American Historical Association
As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Yet over the next three decades, the expansion of a different technology, cable, changed all of this. 24/7 Politics tells the story of how the cable industry worked with political leaders to create an entirely new approach to television. Brownell shows how cable became an unstoppable medium for political communication that prioritized cult followings and loyalty to individual brands, fundamentally reshaped party politics, and, in the process, sowed the seeds of democratic upheaval in the twenty-first century.
Kathryn Cramer Brownell is associate professor of history at Purdue University. Her research and teaching examine the historical intersections of media and politics with a particular emphasis on the American presidency. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from Boston University. Her first book, Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life, explores the institutionalization of entertainment styles and structures in American politics and the rise of the celebrity presidency. She is a Senior Editor of Made By History at the Washington Post, and her writing has appeared in the Post, Reuters, The Atlantic, NBC News, Time, Financial Times, The Nation, and Newsweek.
With comments from Margaret O’Mara and Nicole Hemmer.
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