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  • Public sphere – a place for people to share ideas
    • Printing press enabled people who didn’t have a voice to engage
    • Helps us understand the rise of the press in North America
    • Helps us understand the circulation of political opinions openly
    • Grass roots involvement – pamphlets and paper – ˆCommon Sense–
    • Also a way to see what governments saw about revolutionaries
  • Framing – How information is presented
    • Journalism
    • Political science
    • Toolset for thinking about how people’s perspectives conditioned the information they produced
    • Different ways of framing things (paradigm)
  • History of the book
    • Book as commodity
    • How long it takes new technology to be adopted
    • Spread of knowledge not just for its own sake

Common themes

  • Necessity of looking at historical actors’ and their intention in producing sources  – against teleology
  • Who is doing the framing – men, educated white men
  • Framing particularly relevant because there are a lot of marginalized groups who aren’t able to express their narratives – crucial difference between American and Euro history
  • Relates to public sphere, giving the underrepresented a voice
  • Something about the public sphere and Revolution
  • Power structures around the production and circulation of information – who has the means to buy, publish books
  • Think about how that commodification conditions the material that gets published
  • Audience dictates what (or some) of the information that gets shared
  • American Revolution was the result of a new book/print culture