Television As a Ritual Space
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This article develops an alternative understanding and definition of ‘media rituals’which is broader than pre-existing rituals that are broadcast through media (and in that way, so that they may be called ‘mediatized rituals’). Drawing on anthropological and sociological theory, media rituals need to be distinguished in a deeper sense from other types of rituals and can be defined as formalised actions organised around key media-related categories and boundaries, whose performance frames, or suggests a connection with, wider media-related values. This understanding of rituals draws on Emile Durkheim’s sociological interpretation of religion but in a non-functionalist way, contextualising our understanding of media rituals within what the author calls a wider ‘myth of the mediated centre’. Three types of media rituals are then discussed: first, aspects of what have been theorised as ‘media events’, second, talk shows; and third, reality TV. Together these make up the clearest categories of television’s space of ritual.
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This article develops an alternative understanding and definition of ‘media rituals’which is broader than pre-existing rituals that are broadcast through media (and in that way, so that they may be called ‘mediatized rituals’). Drawing on anthropological and sociological theory, media rituals need to be distinguished in a deeper sense from other types of rituals and can be defined as formalised actions organised around key media-related categories and boundaries, whose performance frames, or suggests a connection with, wider media-related values. This understanding of rituals draws on Emile Durkheim’s sociological interpretation of religion but in a non-functionalist way, contextualising our understanding of media rituals within what the author calls a wider ‘myth of the mediated centre’. Three types of media rituals are then discussed: first, aspects of what have been theorised as ‘media events’, second, talk shows; and third, reality TV. Together these make up the clearest categories of television’s space of ritual.
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