Media events : the live broadcasting of history /

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Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of "historic" events have become, in effect, world rituals--high holidays of mass communication. Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz show us that these media events have the potential for transforming societies as they transfix viewers around th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dayan, Daniel, 1943-
Other Authors: Katz, Elihu, 1926-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.
Subjects:
Since 1945
Television broadcasting of news.
Mass media > Social aspects.
History, Modern > 1945-1989.
History, Modern > 1989-
Téléjournaux.
Médias > Aspect social.
Histoire > 1945-1989.
Histoire > 1989-
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
History, Modern
Mass media > Social aspects
Television broadcasting of news
Historisches Ereignis
Zeitgeschichte > Fach
Fernsehen
Televisie.
Nieuwsprogramma's.
Sociale aspecten.
Television > News programmes
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Defining Media Events: High Holidays of Mass Communication
  • 2. Scripting Media Events: Contest, Conquest, Coronation
  • 3. Negotiating Media Events
  • 4. Performing Media Events
  • 5. Celebrating Media Events
  • 6. Shamanizing Media Events
  • 7. Reviewing Media Events
  • Appendix: Five Frames for Assessing the Effects of Media Events
  • Notes
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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