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The 1864 Union Soldier Vote: Historical-Critical Perspectives on Public Space and the Public Sphere |
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In this essay, I engage the distinction between “ritual” and “transmission” views of voting to clarify the poles of the debate over the first large-scale implementation of absentee voting in the United States. Absentee soldier voting serves as a historical case study of the rhetorical, administrative, and technical means by the “public” is disengaged from the physical limitations of the people comprising it. I seek to establish an empirical starting point for thinking more broadly about enduring tensions between notions of “public space” and “public sphere” in communication scholarship. Tentatively, I suggest that the topic of soldier voting illustrates one possible condition for civic nationalism: the transfer of the electorate from public space to public sphere through a process of reimagining the nature of the vote as a communicative act. |
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elections; historical-critical research; public sphere; public space; military voting |
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Name: International Communication Association
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| Horner, Jennifer. "The 1864 Union Soldier Vote: Historical-Critical Perspectives on Public Space and the Public Sphere" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA, May 23, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p170414_index.html> |
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| Horner, J. , 2007-05-23 "The 1864 Union Soldier Vote: Historical-Critical Perspectives on Public Space and the Public Sphere" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p170414_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In this essay, I engage the distinction between “ritual” and “transmission” views of voting to clarify the poles of the debate over the first large-scale implementation of absentee voting in the United States. Absentee soldier voting serves as a historical case study of the rhetorical, administrative, and technical means by the “public” is disengaged from the physical limitations of the people comprising it. I seek to establish an empirical starting point for thinking more broadly about enduring tensions between notions of “public space” and “public sphere” in communication scholarship. Tentatively, I suggest that the topic of soldier voting illustrates one possible condition for civic nationalism: the transfer of the electorate from public space to public sphere through a process of reimagining the nature of the vote as a communicative act. |
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| The 1864 Union Soldier Vote 1 Voting as communication When we consider the history of the vote in the United States the gradual expansion of suffrage comes to mind. Alexander Keyssar in his comprehensive history argues that the move toward universal suffrage was shot through with racial and economic tensions and subject to several significant reverses.1 Although change in the legal definition of who might become a voter is a compelling historical topic the matter of technological changes in |
| The 1864 Union Soldier Vote 24 Rappaport Armin “The replacement system during the Civil War.” Military Affairs Vol 15 No. 2 (Summer 1951) 95-106. Soderlund Gretchen "Communication scholarship as ritual: An examination of James Carey's cultural model of communication." Thinking with James Carey: Essays on communications transportation history ed. Jeremy Packer and Craig Robertson New York: Peter Lang Publishing 2006. Jonathan W. White “Citizens and Soldiers: Party competition and the debate in Pennsylvania over permitting soldiers to vote 1861-1864.” |
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