Media rituals : a critical approach /

Media rituals : a critical approach /

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Author / Creator:	Couldry, Nick.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 173 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Mass media -- Influence. Mass media -- Social aspects. Mass media -- Influence. Mass media -- Social aspects. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11299429

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ISBN:	0203986601 9780203986608 9786610107568 6610107564 0415270154 0415270146 9780415270144 9780415270151
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-166) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Couldry, Nick. Media rituals. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003

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Summary:	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.<br> Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual, 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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xii, 173 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-166) and index.
ISBN:	0203986601 9780203986608 9786610107568 6610107564 0415270154 0415270146 9780415270144 9780415270151