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Media, Ritual and Identity (Hardcover, New)
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Media, Ritual and Identity (Hardcover, New)
Series: Communication and Society
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This work 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 series of case studies, from the staging of US
presidential election campaigns to broadcasting in the developing
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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