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Mediating the Nation - News, Audiences and the Politics of Identity (Hardcover)
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Mediating the Nation - News, Audiences and the Politics of Identity (Hardcover)
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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.
Drawing on anthropological, social and media theory and grounded on
a two-year original ethnography of television news viewing in
Athens, the book offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective in
understanding the media/identity relationship. Starting from a
perspective that examines identities as lived and as performed, the
book follows the circulation of discourses about the nation and
belonging and contrasts the articulation of identities at a local
level with the discourses about the nation in the national
television channels. The book asks: whether, and in what ways does
television influence identity discourses and practices? When do
people contest the official discourses about the nation and when do
they rely on them? Do the media play a role in relation to
inclusion and exclusion from public life, particularly in the case
of minorities? The book presents a compelling account of the
contradictory and ambivalent nature of national and transnational
identities while developing a nuanced approach to media power. It
is argued that although the media do not shape identities in a
causal way, they do contribute in creating common communicative
spaces which often catalyse feelings of belonging or exclusion. The
book claims a place in the emerging sub-field of media anthropology
and represents the new generation of audience research that places
media consumption in the wider social, economic and political
context.
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