Media Rituals - A Critical Approach (Paperback)

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 constructs and where its power is legitimated.
Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual, Nick Couldry applies the work of theorists such as Durkheim, Bourdieu and Bloch to a number of important media arenas: the public media event; reality TV; Webcam sites; talk shows and docu-soaps; media pilgrimages; the construction of celebrity. In the final chapter, he imagines a different world where the media's ritual power is less, because the possibilities of participation in media production are more evenly shared.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2002
First published:	2003
Authors:	Nick Couldry
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-27015-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
LSN:	0-415-27015-4
Barcode:	9780415270151

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