Media rituals : a critical approach / Nick Couldry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Couldry, Nick

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Influence.

Mass media.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

"Media Rituals" rethinks our accepted concepts of ritual behavior 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; and the construction of celebrity. In a final chapter, he imagines a different world where the media's ritual power is lessened, due to the possibilities of a more evenly shared participation in media production.

Contents:

Media rituals : the short and the long route

Ritual and liminality

Ritual space : unravelling the myth of the centre

Rethinking media events

Media "pilgrimages" and everyday media boundaries

Live "reality" and the future of surveillance

Mediated self-disclosure : before and after the Internet

Beyond media rituals?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-166) and index.

ISBN:

0415270146

0415270154

OCLC:

50294967