Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History

by Daniel Dayan

Book Overview

Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of historic events have become world rituals - high holidays of mass communication. These media events, Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz argue, have the potential for transforming societies even as they transfix viewers around the globe.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067455955X
• ISBN13: 9780674559554
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"