Media Events :The Live Broadcasting of History

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Media Events

Media Events :The Live Broadcasting of History

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Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of “historic” events have become world rituals which, according to Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz, have the potential for transforming societies even as they transfix viewers around the globe. Analyzing such public spectacles as the Olympic games, the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, John F. Kenndy’s funeral, the moon landing, and Pope John II’s visits to Poland, they offer an ethnography of how media events are scripted, negotiated, performed, celebrated, shamanized, and reviewed.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780674559561
ISBN10 0674559568
Number Of Pages 320
Item Weight 363 g
Publisher / Reseller Harvard University Press
Format paperback
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Media Events is a feat of scholarship about a medium that tends to defy scholarship. It is a comprehensive, thoughtful, and original delineation of a phenomenon of live television as a powerful social force. This book marks a milestone in the understanding of how we are affected by television. -- Daniel Schorr, National Public Radio
An important work that should be read by everyone in the media and cultural studies and who may be involved in the study of other modern institutions and political processes. -- Eric Rothenbuhler * Contemporary Sociology *
The publication of Media Events is itself a media event of great importance to scholars and professionals in broadcasting and electronic media. -- Michael Real * Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media *

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Author's Bio

Daniel Dayan is a Fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. Elihu Katz is Trustee Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvannia; Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Scientific Director of the Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research.

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