Publications

Publication details [#52609]

Dalisay, Francis. 2009. Social Control in an American Pacific Island: Guam's Local Newspaper Reports on Liberation. Journal of Communication Inquiry 33 (3) : 239–257.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | hegemony | influencing | newspaper report | social constraint

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

An analysis of Guam's local newspaper reports, published by the Pacific Daily News (PDN) between the 50th and 60th anniversaries (1994-2004) of Guam's liberation by the Americans, shows that the PDN served the hegemonic conservation of Guam society as an unincorporated American territory.