This last point is essential, given the organizational complexity of media events, the multiplicity of simultaneous performance involved. Coordination is facilitated by the existence of major dramaturgical models or scripts. Three such scripts can be identified. The script of Coronations is by no means exclusive to monarchic contexts. They invite ceremonial audiences to manifest their loyalty to these norms, and to the institutions that uphold them.
Contests stress the turning points of the democratic curriculum.
They celebrate the very existence of a forum open to public bate. They point to the necessity of interpreting and debating the norms. They are celebrations of pluralism, of the diversity of legitimate positions. Contests call for reflexivity. They invite their audiences to an attitude of deliberation.