Media, ritual, and identity / edited by Tamar Liebes and James Curran.

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 contempo...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Liebes, Tamar. Curran, James. Katz, Elihu, 1926-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Series:Communication and society (Routledge (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
  • Intellectual legacy of Elihu Katz / James Curran and Tamar Liebes
  • Mass communication, ritual, and civil society / Jeffrey C. Alexander and Ronald N. Jacobs
  • Political ritual on television / James W. Carey
  • Television's disaster marathons / Tamar Liebes
  • Minorities, majorities and the media / Larry Gross
  • Particularistic media and diasporic communications / Daniel Dayan
  • Dialogic community / Tamar Katriel
  • Dialectics of life, story and afterlife / Yoram Bilu
  • Broadcasting in the Third World / Daniel C. Hallin
  • Public sphere or public sphericules / Todd Gitlin
  • Crisis of public communication / James Curran
  • Public journalism and the search for democratic ideals / Theodore L. Glasser and Stephanie Craft
  • Promoting peace through the news media / Gadi Wolfsfeld
  • Relationships between media and audiences / Sonia Livingstone.