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Media and Events in History

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Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2022
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-4540-7 (ISBN)
68,55 inkl. MwSt
The most intense hopes and fears of our collective lives centre around large-scale events – from competitions, celebrations and festivals to environmental disasters, pandemics and terror attacks. The media are a crucial part of this process: they enable the planning, resource allocation and circulation of the vital information needed to mount major events. They are also where traces of events are stored for history. In short, large-scale and collective events have been, and still are, mediated.

Starting from nineteenth-century industrialisation, Media and Events in History explains how contemporary life has become saturated with events. It discusses how they have come to involve extensive infrastructures, forms of control and anticipation, attention and participation, contingency and transformation, and articulations of the past and the future. Synthesising and developing insights from history, media studies, philosophy and the social sciences, Ytreberg surveys the rise of event-planning via mediation, and exposes the historical driving forces behind ‘media events’, global ‘mega-events’ and ‘pseudo-events’.

Revealing the importance of events in history, this eye-opening book will be of interest to students of media studies, history, historical sociology and cultural history, as well as the general reader.

Espen Ytreberg is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oslo.

Acknowledgements



Part 1: Concepts and theories

Chapter 1 Understanding large-scale events

Chapter 2 Trans-ports: Key concepts for large-scale events

Chapter 3 Return of the event in history, media critique and media studies



Part 2: Cases and histories

Chapter 4 Planned events

Chapter 5 Media-planned events

Chapter 6 Nonplanned events



Conclusion: The challenges and limits of events



Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 231 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-5095-4540-9 / 1509545409
ISBN-13 978-1-5095-4540-7 / 9781509545407
Zustand Neuware
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