Media anthropology (Sage, 2005)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface -- 1. The Promise of Media Anthropology -- Mihai Coman and Eric W. Rothenbuhler -- PART I: HISTORIES AND DEBATES -- 2. Media Anthropology, An Introduction -- Faye Ginsburg -- 3. The Profanity of the Media -- Mark Hobart -- 4. Proposal for Mass Media Anthropology -- Francisco Osorio -- 5. Cultural Anthropology and Mass Media: A Processual Approach -- Mihai Coman -- PART II: CONCEPTS AND METHODS -- 6. Media Rituals: Beyond Functionalism -- Nick Couldry -- 7. Ritual Media: Historical Perspectives and Social Functions -- Pascal Lardellier -- 8. The Emergence of Religious Forms in Television -- Günter Thomas -- 9. The Church of the Cult of the Individual -- Eric W. Rothenbuhler -- 10. News as Myth: Daily News and Eternal Stories -- Jack Lule -- 11. News Stories and Myth?the Impossible Reunion? -- Mihai Coman -- 12. News as Stories -- Michael Schudson -- 13. Performing Media: Toward an Ethnography of Intertextuality -- Mark Peterson --
- 14. Audience Ethnographies: A Media Engagement Approach -- Antonio La Pastina -- 15. Picturing Practices: Visual Anthropology and Media Ethnography -- Graham Murdock and Sarah Pink -- PART III: EVENTS, STORIES, ACTIVITIES -- 16. The Pope?s Visit to Reunion Island -- Daniel Dayan -- 17. Ground Zero, the Firemen, and the Symbolics of Touch on 9/11 and After -- Eric W. Rothenbuhler -- 18. Myths to the Rescue: How Live Television Intervenes in History -- Tamar Liebes and Menahem Blondheim -- 19. Finding Aids to the Past: Bearing Personal Witness to Traumatic Public Events -- Barbie Zelizer -- 20. Telling What-a-Story News Through Myth and Ritual: The Middle East as Wild West -- Daniel Berkowitz -- 21. CJ?s Revenge: A Case Study of News as Cultural Narrative -- S. Elizabeth Bird -- 22. Ritualized Play, Art, and Communication on Internet Relay Chat -- Brenda Danet -- 23. Religion and Meaning in the Digital Age: Field Research on Internet/Web Religion -- Stewart M. Hoover and Jin Kyu Park --
- 24. Weaving Trickster: Myth and Tribal Encounters on the World Wide Web -- Anita Hammer -- 25. The Mass Media and the Transformation of Collective Identity: Quebec and Israel -- Dov Shinar -- PART IV: THEORY INTO PRACTICE -- 26. Activist Media Anthropology: Antidote to Extremist Worldviews -- Susan L. Allen -- 27. Speaking with the Sources: Science Writers and Anthropologists -- Merry Bruns -- 28. The Journalist as Ethnographer? How Anthropology can Enrich Journalistic Practice -- S. Elizabeth Bird -- 29. Journalism Education and Practice -- Gerd G. Kopper -- 30. The Public Sphere: Linking the Media and Civic Cultures -- Peter Dahlgren -- About the Authors