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Media Events : The Live Broadcasting of History.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1992Copyright date: ©1992Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674030305
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Media EventsDDC classification:
  • 070.1/95
LOC classification:
  • PN4784
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Defining Media Events: High Holidays of Mass Communication -- 2. Scripting Media Events: Contest, Conquest, Coronation -- 3. Negotiating Media Events -- 4. Performing Media Events -- 5. Celebrating Media Events -- 6. Shamanizing Media Events -- 7. Reviewing Media Events -- Appendix: Five Frames for Assessing the Effects of Media Events -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of "historic" events have become world rituals which, according to the authors, have the potential to transform societies even as they transfix viewers around the globe. The authors offer an ethnography of how these events are scripted, negotiated, performed, celebrated, shamanized, and reviewed.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Defining Media Events: High Holidays of Mass Communication -- 2. Scripting Media Events: Contest, Conquest, Coronation -- 3. Negotiating Media Events -- 4. Performing Media Events -- 5. Celebrating Media Events -- 6. Shamanizing Media Events -- 7. Reviewing Media Events -- Appendix: Five Frames for Assessing the Effects of Media Events -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of "historic" events have become world rituals which, according to the authors, have the potential to transform societies even as they transfix viewers around the globe. The authors offer an ethnography of how these events are scripted, negotiated, performed, celebrated, shamanized, and reviewed.

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