Media rituals : a critical approach / Nick Couldry.
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 ma...
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| Language: | English |
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2003.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 173 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-166) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203986601 9780203986608 9786610107568 6610107564 9781134490189 1134490186 9781134490134 1134490135 9781134490172 1134490178 0415270154 9780415270151 1280107561 9781280107566 1283708086 9781283708081 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |