ISBN:
0203986601
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9780203986608
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 173 pages)
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illustrations
Parallel Title:
Print version Media rituals
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media Influence
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
Mass media Influence
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
Mass media Influence
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies
;
Mass media ; Influence
;
Mass media ; Social aspects
;
Electronic book
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The media are an inescapable part of our everyday life. But how can we understand those times of excess when the media has a significance completely beyond the routine? At times of crisis or triumph, how does the media forge a public sense of community and shape people's private actions - or make us believe they do ? Media Rituals rethinks our accepted concepts of ritual behaviour for a media-saturated age. It connects ritual directly with questions of power, government, and surveillance and explores the ritual space which the media construct and where their power is legitimated. Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual, Nick Couldry applies the work of theorists such as Durkheim, Bourdieu and Bloch to a number of important media arenas: the public media event; reality TV; Webcam sites; talk shows and docu-soaps; media pilgrimages; the construction of celebrity. In a final chapter, he imagines a different world where the media's ritual power is less, because the possibilities of participation in media production are more evenly shared
Description / Table of Contents:
Media rituals : the short and the long routeRitual and liminality -- Ritual space : unravelling the myth of the centre -- Rethinking media events -- Media "pilgrimages" and everyday media boundaries -- Live "reality" and the future of surveillance -- Mediated self-disclosure : before and after the Internet -- Beyond media rituals?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-166) and index. - Print version record
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