Media events in a global age
By: edited by Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp and Friedrich Krotz.
Contributors: Couldry, Nick.; Hepp, Andreas.; Krotz, Friedrich.
Series: Comedia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780415477109; 9780415477116; 9780203872604
Subjects: Mass media and culture; Mass media -- Social aspects; Mass media and globalization; Mass media -- Influence
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Media events in globalized media cultures / Andreas Hepp and Nick Couldry; title: Media events rethought. Beyond media events: disenchantment, derailment, disruption / Daniel Dayan; title: 'No more peace!': how disaster, terror, and war have upstaged media events / Elihu Katz and Tamar Liebes; title: The history and future of the media event. Historical perspectives on media events: a comparison of the Lisbon Earthquake in 1755 and the Tsunami Catastrophe in 2004 / Jurgen Wilke; title: From media events to ritual to commnuicative form / Eric W. Rothenbuhler; title: Media spectacle and media events: some critical reflections / Douglas Kellner; title: Media events in the frame of contemporary social and cultural media theory. Creating a national holiday: media events, symbolic capital and symbolic power / Friedrich Krotz; title: Modalities of mediation / Joost van Loon; title: Media events, Eurovision and societal centers / Goran Bolin; title: Media events and everyday identities. Permanent turbulence and reparatory work: a dramaturgical approach to late modern television / Peter Csigo; title: Media events and gendered identities in South Asia: Miss World going 'deshi' / Robert Wildermuth; title: Media event, culture, and lifestyle management: observations on the influence of media events on everyday culture / Udo Gottlich; title: Media events and global politics. In pursuit of a global image: media events as  political communication / Nancy K. Rivenburgh; title: 9/11 and the transformation of  globalized media events / Agnieszka Stepinska; title: Eventspheres as discursive forms: (re-)negotiating the  'mediated center' in new network cultures / Ingrid Volkmer and Florian Deffner; title: Media events and cultural contexts. Sports events: The Olympics in Greece / Roy Panagiotopoulou; title: Performing global 'news": indigenizing WTO as media event / Lisa Leung; title: Religious media events: the Catholic "World Youth Day" as an example of the mediatization and individualization of religion / Andreas Hepp and Veronika Kronert; title: Conclusion. The media events debate: moving to the the next stage / Stewart M. Hoover.