186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Figures and Plates Preface 1. Media Rituals: The Short and the Long Route 2. Ritual and Liminality 3. Ritual Space: Unravelling the Myth of the Centre 4. Rethinking Media Events 5. Media 'Pilgrimages' and Everyday Media Boundaries 6. Live 'Reality' and the Future of Surveillance 7. Mediated Self-Disclosure: Before and After the Internet 8. Beyond Media Rituals? References Index
Biography
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.
