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Media Events in a Global Age
Series: Comedia
"This volume assembles an estimable range of critical analyses of one of the most important mediated artifacts of the modern world—the media event. The authors challenge the construct, extend its usefulness, expand its theoretical basis and application, and examine media events in a far larger and...
Published October 15th 2009 by Routledge
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MediaSpace
Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age
Media Space explores the importance of ideas of space and place to understanding the ways in which we experience the media in our everyday lives. Essays from leading international scholars address the kinds of space created by media and the effects that spacial arrangements have on media forms....
Published November 26th 2003 by Routledge
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Media Rituals
A Critical Approach
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 construct and where their power is legitimated.Drawing on sociological and...
Published December 18th 2002 by Routledge
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The Place of Media Power
Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age
Series: Comedia
This fascinating study focuses on an area neglected in previous studies of the media: the meetings between ordinary people and the media. Couldry explores what happens when people who normally consume the media witness media processes in action, or even become the object of media attention...
Published December 22nd 1999 by Routledge