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Media Events: Live Broadcasting of History: The Live Broadcasting of History

Media Events: Live Broadcasting of History: The Live Broadcasting of History

by Daniel Dayan (Author)

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    Paperback 1994

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Synopsis

Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of historic events have become world rituals which, according to Dayman and Katz, have the potential for transforming societies even as they transfix viewers around the globe. Analyzing such public spectacles as the Olympic games, the moon landing, and Pope John Paul II's visits to Poland, they offer an ethnography of how media events are scripted, negotiated, performed, celebrated, shamanized and reviewed.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 26 Apr 1994
ISBN 10: 0674559568
ISBN 13: 9780674559561

Media Reviews
An imporant work that should be read by everyone in the media and culural studies and may involved in the study of other modern institutions and political processes. -- Eric Rothenbuhler Contemporary Sociology The publication of the Media Eventsis itself a media event of great imporantance to scholars and professionals in broadcasting and electronic media. -- Michael Real Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media Media Events is a feat of scholarship about a medium that tends to defy scholarship. It is a comprehensive, thoughtful, and original delineation of a phenomenon of live television as a powerful social force. This book marks a milestone in the understanding of how we are affected by television. -- Daniel Schorr National Public Radio
Author Bio
Daniel Dayan is a Fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. Elihu Katz is Trustee Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvannia; Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Scientific Director of the Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research.