Media Rituals: A Critical Approach

by Nick Couldry

2021-01-07 15:09:17

Media Ritualsrethinks 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... Read more
Media Ritualsrethinks 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. Less

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File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0.5 in
Print pages192
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date February 23, 2003
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780415270151
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Ulises A. Mejias is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Direct...

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