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Media, Ritual and Identity examines the role of the media in society; its complex influence on democratic processes and its participation in the construction and affirmation of different social identities. It draws extensively upon cultural anthropology and combines a commanding overview of contemporary media debates with a series of fascinating case studies ranging from political ritual on television to broadcasting in the third world.
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.
Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international
collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media
that are challenging the power concentration in large media
corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a
broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in
Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South
Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include
independent media centers, gay online networks and alternative web
discussion forums, feminist film, political journalism and social
networks, indigenous communication, and church-sponsored media.
This important book will help shape debates on the media's role in
current global struggles, such as the anti-globalization movement.
Can the American media be blamed for the transformation of an
ideologically cohesive society into a segmented society of pleasure
seekers, startups, and subcultures? This book shows show how
Israel's new television system, which has adopted American
technologies, genres, as well as the economics of advertising and
privatization, anticipates, leads, and celebrates the changes that
have occurred in the country's political culture during the 1990s.
The central aspects of Americanization are illustrated and analyzed
via a series of case studies. The book looks at the increasing
vulnerability of public broadcasting, the danger of action news,
the construction of scandal, the Americanization of election
campaigns, the victory of style over substance in Prime Ministerial
debates, the political discourse of authenticity, and the genre of
political talkshows, ending with the question of whether and how
Americanized media are capable of coping with recurrent crises of
national security.
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