Franklin Ford Collection

Dominique Trudel (1) , Juliette de Maeyer (2)

1 Audencia Business School
2 UdeM - Université de Montréal

The American journalist Franklin Ford (1849–1918) is remembered for his ambitious (and stillborn) Thought News periodical, hatched with philosopher John Dewey. The Franklin Ford Collection, curated and introduced by Dominique Trudel and Juliette De Maeyer, takes in the full shambolic spread of Ford's thought, across news, politics, education, finance, and society at large. The collection includes nineteen documents—letters, leaflets, editorials, and treatises—with critical annotations from Trudel and De Maeyer. The works, many unpublished or rarely circulated, illustrate the core themes that animated Ford's career, including his sweeping program of press reform and his thoughts on the interconnected flows of money, transportation, and communication. Franklin Ford (1849–1918) was an American journalist, entrepreneur, and media theorist.

Mots clés: Media studies; Media Archaeology; Journalism - history

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences; Histoire

Dominique Trudel, Juliette de Maeyer. Franklin Ford Collection. Media Studies Press; Bethlehem. 2023, Public Domain Series, Jefferson Pooley, 978-1-951399-22-1. ⟨hal-04193172⟩