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Media, Ritual and Identity eBooks
By: Tamar Liebes, James Curran
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Media, Ritual and Identity Summary
| Media, Ritual and Identity brings together leading international media critics to examine the role of the media in society, its part in shaping social identities, and the ways in which it is changing democracy, providing a rich series of case studies, from the staging of US presidential election campaigns to broadcasting in the ''Third World''. The contributors, who include James Curran, James Carey, Tamar Liebes, Larry Gross, Daniel C. Hallin, Sonia Livingstone and Todd Gitlin, engage with key questions such as: do the media offer a common framework of understanding, and strengthen social unity? Or do they promote a lynch mentality against public enemies, staging rituals of degradation and shame? Do the media help civil society to function for the benefit of all, or for the powerful few? The book draws upon cultural anthropology to offer a different view of media and identity to that which is dominant in cultural studies orthodoxy, and it investigates the future for liberal democracy in an age of globalization, with the fragmentation of the mass audience, the weakening of the nation state and the tabloidization of the media. |
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Do the media help democratic society to function for the benefit of all, or for the few? And how does the media influence our formation of social identities? Inspired by the work of Elihu Katz, "Media, Ritual and Identity" examines the role of media in society and its influence on democratic processes. It draws extensively on cultural anthropology, combining a commanding overview of contemporary media debates with a series of fascinating case studies from political ritual on television to broadcasting in the Third World. A cutting-edge look at new developments in the field, edia, Ritual and Identity shines new light on the pivotal role of the media in today's world. Contributors include: Jeffrey Alexander, Yoram Bilu, James Carey, Stephanie Craft, James Curran, Daniel Dayan, Todd Gitlin, Theodore L. Glasser, Larry Gross, Daniel C. Hallin, Ronald N. Jacobs, Tamar Katriel, Tamar Liebes, Sonia Livingstone, and Gadi Wolsfeld. |
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