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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783704003321

Titolo

Media, ritual, and identity / / edited by Tamar Liebes and James Curran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-72187-0

1-134-72188-9

0-203-01912-1

1-280-33287-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Collana

Communication and society

Altri autori (Persone)

LiebesTamar

CurranJames

KatzElihu <1926->

Disciplina

070.1/95

Soggetti

Television broadcasting of news

Mass media - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A tribute to Elihu Katz.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; The intellectual legacy of Elihu Katz; Mass communication, ritual and civil society; Political ritual on television: episodes in the history of shame, degradation and excommunication; Television's disaster marathons: a danger for democratic processes?; Minorities, majorities and the media; Particularistic media and diasporic communications; The dialogic community: ~soul talks~ among early Israeli communal groups; The dialectics of life, story and afterlife; Broadcasting in the Third World: from national development to civil society

Public sphere or public sphericules?Crisis of public communication: a reappraisal; Public journalism and the search for democratic ideals; Promoting peace through the news media: some initial lessons from the Oslo peace process; Relationships between media and audiences: prospects for audience reception studies; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Media, Ritual and Identity examines the role of the media in society; its complex influence on democratic processes and its participation in the construction and affirmation of different social identities. It draws extensively upon cultural anthropology and combines a commanding



overview of contemporary media debates with a series of fascinating case studies ranging from political ritual on television to broadcasting in the third world.