The most intense hopes and fears of our collective lives centre
around large-scale events - from competitions, celebrations and
festivals to environmental disasters, pandemics and terror attacks.
The media are a crucial part of this process: they enable the
planning, resource allocation and circulation of the vital
information needed to mount major events. They are also where
traces of events are stored for history. In short, large-scale and
collective events have been, and still are, mediated. Starting from
nineteenth-century industrialisation, Media and Events in History
explains how contemporary life has become saturated with events. It
discusses how they have come to involve extensive infrastructures,
forms of control and anticipation, attention and participation,
contingency and transformation, and articulations of the past and
the future. Synthesising and developing insights from history,
media studies, philosophy and the social sciences, Ytreberg surveys
the rise of event-planning via mediation, and exposes the
historical driving forces behind 'media events', global
'mega-events' and 'pseudo-events'. Revealing the importance of
events in history, this eye-opening book will be of interest to
students of media studies, history, historical sociology and
cultural history, as well as the general reader.
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