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Media Rituals: A Critical Approach

By Nick Couldry

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
ISBN
9780415270144, 0415270146, 0415270154, 9780415270151, 9780203986608
LCC
P94 .C628 2003
Open Library ID
OL3555797M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1697583 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
200\186
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

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, 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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