Media Events

The Live Broadcasting of History

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

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Beskrivning

Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of “historic” events have become world rituals which, according to Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz, have the potential for transforming societies even as they transfix viewers around the globe. Analyzing such public spectacles as the Olympic games, the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, John F. Kenndy’s funeral, the moon landing, and Pope John II’s visits to Poland, they offer an ethnography of how media events are scripted, negotiated, performed, celebrated, shamanized, and reviewed.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1994-03-15
Mått:140 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:360 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674559561

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Mer om författaren

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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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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