Couldry, Nick.

Media rituals : a critical approach / Nick Couldry. - London ; New York : Routledge, c2003. - xii, 173 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Media rituals : the short and the long route -- Ritual and liminality -- Ritual space : unravelling the myth of the centre -- Rethinking media events -- Media "pilgrimages" and everyday media boundaries -- Live "reality" and the future of surveillance -- Mediated self-disclosure : before and after the Internet -- Beyond media rituals?.

0415270154 (pbk.)


Mass media--Influence.
Mass media--Social aspects.

302.23 / COU