Media events in contexts of transition: sites of hope, disruption and protest

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Evans
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
Current Role ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Current Events ◽  
The Media ◽  
Building Project ◽  
Media Event

This article looks briefly at the past and current role played by Dayan and Katz’s media events in South Africa and speculates about their potential future. While in the past, media events have played a pivotal role in the post-apartheid state’s nation-building project, current events suggest a more frissured socio-political landscape, with three likely manifestations of the media event. The first is the enduring integrative and hope-filled event, which audiences still desire and support. The second is the disruptive, non-integrative event and the third is the hijacked media event, which see media events being targeted as sites of protest.

“Forward to David the Builder!” Georgia's (re)turn to language-centered nationalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 522-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christofer Berglund
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The Past ◽  
Building Project ◽  
The Rose ◽  
State Language

After the Rose Revolution, President Saakashvili tried to move away from the exclusionary nationalism of the past, which had poisoned relations between Georgians and their Armenian and Azerbaijani compatriots. His government instead sought to foster an inclusionary nationalism, wherein belonging was contingent upon speaking the state language and all Georgian speakers, irrespective of origin, were to be equals. This article examines this nation-building project from a top-down and bottom-up lens. I first argue that state officials took rigorous steps to signal that Georgian-speaking minorities were part of the national fabric, but failed to abolish religious and historical barriers to their inclusion. I next utilize a large-scale, matched-guise experiment (n= 792) to explore if adolescent Georgians ostracize Georgian-speaking minorities or embrace them as their peers. I find that the upcoming generation of Georgians harbor attitudes in line with Saakashvili's language-centered nationalism, and that current Georgian nationalism therefore is more inclusionary than previous research, or Georgia's tumultuous past, would lead us to believe.

Turkey’s failed coup as an ‘ongoing media event’ and the formation of public affect

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ergin Bulut ◽  
Başak Can
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
National Unity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Work ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
The Media ◽  
Pedagogical Relationship ◽  
Media Event ◽  
Coup Attempt

Following the coup attempt in Turkey, former Gulenists made appearances on various television channels and disclosed intimate and spectacular information regarding their past activities. We ask: what is the political work of these televised disclosures? In answering this question, we situate the coup within the media event literature and examine the intimate work of these televised disclosures performed as part of a media event. The disclosures we examine were extremely spectacular statements that worked to reconstruct a highly divided and polarized society through an intimate language. Consequently, these television performances had two functions: ideological and affective. First, these disclosures and television shows chose to foreground sensation and therefore mystified the illegal networks that historically prepared the coup. Second, using a language of regret and apology, these disclosures aimed to teach the audience how to be purified and good citizens through a mediated, pedagogical relationship. Within the vulnerable context of a hegemonic crisis, these disclosures intended to form their own publics where citizens were invited to sympathize with those who made mistakes in the past, ultimately aiming to create national unity and reconciliation.

scholarly journals The Associative Dictionary of Media Events in the Early XXI Century: a New Lexicographic Concept

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1069-1078
Author(s):  
Ya. A. Dudareva ◽  
N. N. Shpilnaya ◽  
T. V. Moskvitina
Keyword(s):  
Special Problem ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Lexical Representation ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Russian Speakers ◽  
Media Events ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cultural Linguistics ◽  
Media Event

The article introduces a new concept of the Associative Dictionary of Media Events of the Early XXI Century. The project continues the traditions of common lexicography. As a rule, common lexicography is part of a special problem field described by various antinomies, e.g. objective vs. subjective in the language, individual vs. collective, descriptive vs. prescriptive approaches to the lexical representation in dictionaries, etc. The new dictionary represents a snapshot of everyday media consciousness and thus belongs to descriptive lexicographic projects. The dictionary is based on an associative experiment that involved Russian and French speakers. While traditional associative dictionaries contain the most frequent vocabulary, this project represents the conceptual meanings of various media events that exist in the everyday collective consciousness. The new dictionary belongs to media linguistics, descriptive lexicography, and interpretive linguistics. The present article describes the technology of its compilation, substantiates its relevance and novelty, and offers a sample entry using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic and its representation in the Russian language. Each media event consisted of two associative nests: one was based on the reactions of respondents who were familiar with the stimulus, whereas the other demonstrated reactions of participants unfamiliar with the media event. The epidemic being global, such key lexemes as "covid" and "coronavirus" lost their agnonymity for Russian speakers, and the media event appeared to have a zero agnonymous associative nest. The paper also provides a linguistic commentary on the covid entry, which summed up all the reactions received during the associative experiment. The lexicographic project can be of interest to specialists in media, political, cognitive, and cultural linguistics.

The Black Panther Has Died

2016 ◽  
pp. 158-171
Author(s):  
Samuel Mateus
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Media Events ◽  
The Media ◽  
Portuguese Society ◽  
Media Event

Media ecology is characterized today by the frequent airing of disruptive events. The shared experience of broadcasting is thus taken by disenchantment, fragmentation and individualization. Does this mean that integrative and ceremonial media events are condemned to disappear? What about media rituals and collective consensus? In this chapter, we argue that the Media Events category is not just an invaluable frame to understand contemporary television but it is also a vital process on the way societies re-work their solidarities, negotiate collective belonging and publicly stage social rituals. Analysing the live coverage of the funerary ceremonies of Eusébio, the Portuguese world-wide football legend, we address this major social occurrence approaching it as a death media event, a public mourning ceremonial and a tele-ritual. Media events are still a powerful example of how media plays a major role on social integration and national identity. The television broadcast of Eusébio's funeral - it is claimed - constitutes a key example, in the Portuguese society, of the integrative dimension of public events.

scholarly journals Media Events

Communication ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Sonnevend
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Arab Country ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Presidential Debates ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Media Spectacle ◽  
Large Audience ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Event

“Media event” seems like a concept that has been around forever, but it is a relatively new invention in media research. Its origins can be found in Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz’s canonical book titled Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History, published in 1992 by Harvard University Press. The event that inspired Dayan and Katz was the visit of Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat to Israel in 1977. While seemingly only a ceremonial media spectacle, this first official visit from an Arab country to Jerusalem in fact led to a (so far) lasting peace between Israel and Egypt. It was a powerful example of successful media diplomacy that captured the imagination of Dayan and Katz, so much so that they spent the next decade trying to grasp the magic of events in media. In Dayan and Katz’s strict taxonomy, an event would qualify for inclusion as a “media event” only if it fulfilled eight requirements. It had to (1) be broadcast live by television, (2) constitute an interruption of everyday life and everyday broadcasting, (3) be preplanned and scripted, and (4) be viewed by a large audience. There should also be (5) a normative expectation that viewing was obligatory and (6) a reverent, awe-filled narration, and the event had to be (7) integrative of society and (8) mostly conciliatory. Dayan and Katz presented three basic scripts of media events. These were contests (for instance, the World Cup, the Olympic Games, and the presidential debates), conquests (such as the landing on the moon and Pope John Paul II’s visit to Communist Poland), and coronations (for example, the funerals of President Kennedy and Indira Gandhi, the coronation of Elizabeth II, and the royal wedding of Charles and Diana). Overall, Dayan and Katz achieved a genuinely new understanding of events in media, inspiring further theoretical developments and empirical studies in communication studies and other disciplines. Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History was published after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in a particularly hopeful time of history. Traumatic events, especially the 9/11 attacks, prompted many scholars, including Dayan and Katz, to revise the media event concept to include nonceremonial, unplanned events—for instance, wars, disasters, and terrorist attacks as covered by a wide variety of “new” and “old” media.

scholarly journals Contestation, a Deeper Seduction

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57
Author(s):  
Peter Zuurbier
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Media Events ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Event

Individual media events, from the extraordinary to the mundane, as well as the logic they present, have transcended society. Media events no longer happen in isolation, they are intertextually and extratextually linked and mixed together. The ability to view, create, join in, and affect the shape of media events has caused a profound shift in the conception of what they are. What Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz refer to as individual media events, Guy Debord, Michel Foucault and Douglas Kellner consider collectively as spectacle. Their work on media events and spectacle features a debate on the role of contestation within it. Live audience members have an opportunity to impact media events and the spectacle either through individual or collective action. This action can go along with the intents ascribed to the media event and spectacle, or it can oppose them. Contestation often takes the form of an oppositional interruption of the linear messaging promoted within media events and spectacle. Contestation is typically a strategy used by voices that feel marginalized by the images of the spectacle. But contestation of media events and spectacle through their own logic becomes a means of deeper seduction.

Critical Role of Emotions in Media Events

2016 ◽  
pp. 179-195
Author(s):  
Monika Verbalytė
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Empirical Inquiry ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Specific Emotion ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sociology Of Emotion ◽  
Media Event

This contribution relates recent theoretizations of media events with the emotion theory in order to get a better picture of what role emotions play in these events. Critical view toward media events helps to understand the limitations of the claims made by those who established this concept 30 years ago: Rather than instances magically integrating society, media events are seen as struggles over the meaning in the contested media field where by far not every winning meaning enhances societal integration. Additionally, psychology and sociology of emotion gives a necessary foundation for the concise theory of emotions in the media events and guides the empirical inquiry into the subject by suggesting that research should focus on the arousing rhetoric as well as narratives interpreting this arousal and turning it into the specific emotion. The analyzed media event – political scandal – very well exemplifies the theoretical argument made in regard to media events, demonstrates the power of emotions in establishing particular versions of reality and illustrates what I call the recursive logic of media events: the fact that their meaning is established at the very end of their occurrence, whereas their event-ness is implied at the beginning with the intensive arousal attracting everyone's attention.

Critical Role of Emotions in Media Events

2016 ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Monika Verbalytė
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Empirical Inquiry ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Specific Emotion ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sociology Of Emotion ◽  
Media Event

This contribution relates recent theoretizations of media events with the emotion theory in order to get a better picture of what role emotions play in these events. Critical view toward media events helps to understand the limitations of the claims made by those who established this concept 30 years ago: Rather than instances magically integrating society, media events are seen as struggles over the meaning in the contested media field where by far not every winning meaning enhances societal integration. Additionally, psychology and sociology of emotion gives a necessary foundation for the concise theory of emotions in the media events and guides the empirical inquiry into the subject by suggesting that research should focus on the arousing rhetoric as well as narratives interpreting this arousal and turning it into the specific emotion. The analyzed media event – political scandal – very well exemplifies the theoretical argument made in regard to media events, demonstrates the power of emotions in establishing particular versions of reality and illustrates what I call the recursive logic of media events: the fact that their meaning is established at the very end of their occurrence, whereas their event-ness is implied at the beginning with the intensive arousal attracting everyone's attention.

scholarly journals The Royal Tour of 1939 as a Media Event

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Vipond
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Niagara Falls ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
The Media ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Media Event

Abstract: This article examines three radio broadcasts from the royal tour of 1939, namely those covering the departure of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth from Niagara Falls, Ontario, on their way to visit the United States on June 7, 1939. The analysis contributes to the debate about the function of "media events" sparked by Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz's eponymous 1992 book. While Dayan and Katz argue that historic national televised ceremonies enhance community loyalty and integration, their critics suggest that they place too little emphasis on issues of hierarchy and power, especially the power of the media themselves. This study concludes that by their effective use of radio to exploit the symbolism of monarchical ceremony, natural spectacle, and international portals, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's announcers helped to legitimize and augment the authority of the fledgling Canadian public broadcaster.Résumé : Cet article examine trois reportages radiophoniques portant sur le départ le 7 juin 1939 du roi George VI et de la reine Elizabeth pour les États-Unis à partir des chutes Niagara en Ontario. Cette analyse contribue au débat ouvert par Daniel Dayan et Elihu Katz dans leur livre La télévision cérémonielle (1996) sur le rôle de l'événement médiatique. Dayan et Katz soutiennent que les cérémonies historiques diffusées à l'échelle nationale accroissent la loyauté au sein d'une communauté ainsi que l'intégration de celle-ci, mais leurs critiques suggèrent que ces auteurs mettent trop peu l'accent sur les questions d'hiérarchie et de pouvoir, surtout le pouvoir des médias eux-mêmes. Cette étude en arrive à la conclusion que les annonceurs de la Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ont contribué à l'époque à augmenter la légitimité et l'autorité du jeune radiodiffuseur public grâce à leur utilisation efficace de la radio pour exploiter le symbolisme de la cérémonie monarchique, la splendeur naturelle des lieux et les débouchés internationaux.

scholarly journals Albanian Nationalism and the State of Kosovo

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Mexhit Shaqiri
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
The Third ◽  
Building Project ◽  
The 19Th Century

This article deals with the conceptual, ideological and historical relationships that have existed between Albanian nationalism and the state of Kosovo, created in 2008. These relationships are subject to different theoretical and ideological views. A group of views regard the state of Kosovo as a historical and political finalization of the nation-building project initiated by Albanian nationalism in the second half of the 19th century. While another set of views sees this state as a project motivated by contemporary views of multiethnicity and multiculturalism. The contradiction between these two views today constitutes a contradiction within the constitutional and symbolic format of the state of Kosovo. The first part of the article presents the main theories of nationalism. In the second part, these theories are contextualized in the breakdown of the main features of Albanian nationalism, while the third part analyzes the relations between this nationalism and the state of Kosovo, especially from the standpoint of its basic laws

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