Michael O. Johnston is assistant professor of sociology at William Penn University, the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest, and a host for New Books in Sociology (a channel on New Books Network).
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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Importance of Community Media in Shaping Festival City Chapter 2. The Making of an Occasion Chapter 3. The Road to the Float Chapter 4. The Arrival, Performance, and Departure Conclusion Appendix: Sources and Methods, Cities and Their Festival References About the Author
"Just like people, places have identities and personas. Also, just like people, those identities and personas can change over time either by force or by fiat. Michael O. Johnston takes us into a world of the Floatzilla festival where we see how news media facilitate such changes in both people and places. He opens our eyes to some of the ways that contemporary identities are both stabilized and rearranged, and sometimes rearranged again, and how people can act and react to the social forces often out of their control." -- Michael Ian Borer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas