‘Ask what you can do to the Army’: A textual analysis of the underground GI press during the Vietnam War Journal Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • This study examined the normative roles of alternative media, focusing on how the underground GI press did or did not serve these roles during the Vietnam War. The researchers conducted a textual analysis of 22 underground GI newspapers published between 1967 and 1973. Four main themes emerged from the analysis: underground GI press writers were decidedly antiwar in the stories they covered and how they wrote about them; GI writers attempted to differentiate grunts from military and civilian leaders; GI writers attempted to build communities with other military personnel as well as civilians; and instances of censorship and persecution were widely reported. The results were then analyzed through the theoretical lens of the monitorial–disseminator, facilitative–mobilizer, radical–adversarial, and collaborative–interpretive roles of media.

publication date

  • September 1, 2019

has restriction

  • closed

Date in CU Experts

  • January 9, 2020 10:15 AM

Full Author List

  • Painter C; Ferrucci P

author count

  • 2

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1750-6352

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1750-6360

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 354

end page

  • 367

volume

  • 12

issue

  • 3