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Media and Events in History

By Espen Ytreberg

Media and Events in History Law

Media and Events in History

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2022-09-02
Publication Date:
2022-09-02
Publisher:
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1509545409
ISBN13:
9781509545407
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
440 g
Height:
235 cm
Width:
158 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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