Media events : the live broadcasting of history / Daniel Dayan, Elihu Katz.

Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of "historic" events have become, in effect, world rituals--high holidays of mass communication. Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz show us that these media events have the potential for transforming societies as they transfix viewers around th...

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Main Author: Dayan, Daniel, 1943-
Other Authors: Katz, Elihu, 1926-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.
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