Media, Ritual and Identity (Communication and Society)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 10
The intellectual legacy of Elihu Katz......Page 14
Mass communication, ritual and civil society......Page 34
Political ritual on television: episodes in the history of shame, degradation and excommunication......Page 53
Television's disaster marathons: a danger for democratic processes?......Page 82
Minorities, majorities and the media......Page 98
Particularistic media and diasporic communications......Page 114
The dialogic community: ~soul talks~ among early Israeli communal groups......Page 125
The dialectics of life, story and afterlife......Page 147
Broadcasting in the Third World: from national development to civil society......Page 164
Public sphere or public sphericules?......Page 179
Crisis of public communication: a reappraisal......Page 186
Public journalism and the search for democratic ideals......Page 214
Promoting peace through the news media: some initial lessons from the Oslo peace process......Page 230
Relationships between media and audiences: prospects for audience reception studies......Page 248
Index......Page 267