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Media, ritual, and identity / edited by Tamar Liebes and James Curran.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Communication and society (Routledge (Firm))
- Communication and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Katz, Elihu, 1926-2021.
- Katz, Elihu.
- Television broadcasting of news.
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- A tribute to Elihu Katz.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781134721870
- 1134721870
- 9781134721887
- 1134721889
- 9780203019122
- 0203019121
- 9781280332876
- 1280332875
- OCLC:
- 560516456
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