Media Events

Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of "historic" events have become world rituals which, according to Dayman and Katz, have the potential for transforming societies even as they transfix viewers around the globe. Analyzing such public spectacles as the Olympic games, the moon landing, and Pope John Paul II's visits to Poland, they offer an ethnography of how media events are scripted, negotiated, performed, celebrated, shamanized and reviewed.

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An imporant work that should be read by everyone in the media and culural studies and may involved in the study of other modern institutions and political processes. -- Eric Rothenbuhler Contemporary Sociology The publication of the Media Eventsis itself a media event of great imporantance to scholars and professionals in broadcasting and electronic media. -- Michael Real Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media Media Events is a feat of scholarship about a medium that tends to defy scholarship. It is a comprehensive, thoughtful, and original delineation of a phenomenon of live television as a powerful social force. This book marks a milestone in the understanding of how we are affected by television. -- Daniel Schorr National Public Radio

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Daniel Dayan is a Fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. Elihu Katz is Trustee Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvannia; Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Scientific Director of the Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research.

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Preface Defining Media Events: High Holidays of Mass Communication Scripting Media Events: Contest, Conquest, Coronation Negotiating Media Events Performing Media Events Celebrating Media Events Shamanizing Media Events Reviewing Media Events Appendix: Five Frames for Assessing the Effects of Media Events Notes References Acknowledge Index

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