Media Rituals: A Critical Approach / Edition 1

by Nick Couldry, Couldry Nick

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415270151
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/21/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Figures and Plates
Preface
Chapter One: Media Rituals: The Short and the Long Route
Chapter Two: Ritual and Liminality
Chapter Three: Ritual Space: Unravelling the Myth of the Centre
Chapter Four: Rethinking Media Events
Chapter Five: Media 'Pilgrimages' and Everyday Media Boundaries
Chapter Six: Live 'Reality' and the Future of Surveillance
Chapter Seven: Mediated Self-Disclosure: Before and After the Internet
Chapter Eight: Beyond Media Rituals?
References
Index