Media Rituals: A Critical Approach

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.

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Bio of Nick Couldry

Nick Couldry is a Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London

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Imprint

Taylor & Francis

Filesize

1.77 MB

Number of Pages

200

eBook ISBN

9780203986608