Media Rituals: A Critical Approach by Couldry, Nick

Media Rituals: A Critical Approach (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415270151)

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Media Rituals: A Critical Approach by Couldry, Nick

Media Rituals: A Critical Approach

$44.95
Media Rituals: A Critical Approach by Couldry, Nick

Media Rituals: A Critical Approach

$44.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Nick Couldry
ISBN-10: 0415270154
ISBN-13: 9780415270151
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2002
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.20w x 0.43d
By Nick Couldry
By Nick Couldry
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Nick Couldry lectures in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of The Place of Media Power and Inside Culture.

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