1st Edition

Mediating the Nation

By Mirca Madianou Copyright 2005
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

What does it mean to watch two-hour long news programmes every evening? Why are some people 'addicted' to the news while others prefer to switch off? Television is an indispensable part of the fabric of modern life and this book investigates a facet of this process: its impact on the ways that we experience the political entity of the nation and our national and transnational identities.... Read more
Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Rethinking Identities in a Mediated World; 3 Changing Identities: Greece and its Minorities in Context; 4 Texts, Audiences, Contexts: Toward a Theory of Mediation; 5 Mediated Everyday Lives: Media Consumption, Belonging and Boundaries; 6 News and the Projection of a Common ldentity; 7 Negotiating the Nation: Critical Viewers, Cultural Intimacy and ldentity Experiences; 8 Conclusions; Appendix I; Appendix II; Bibliography; Index;

Biography

Madianou Mirca