Mediating the NationRoutledge, 2012 M11 12 - 184 pages What does it mean to watch two-hour long news programmes every evening? Why are some people 'addicted' to the news while others prefer to switch off? Television is an indispensable part of the fabric of modern life and this book investigates a facet of this process: its impact on the ways that we experience the political entity of the nation and our national and transnational identities. Drawing on anthropological, social and media theory and grounded on a two-year original ethnography of television news viewing in Athens, the book offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective in understanding the media/identity relationship. Starting from a perspective that examines identities as lived and as performed, the book follows the circulation of discourses about the nation and belonging and contrasts the articulation of identities at a local level with the discourses about the nation in the national television channels. The book asks: whether, and in what ways does television influence identity discourses and practices? When do people contest the official discourses about the nation and when do they rely on them? Do the media play a role in relation to inclusion and exclusion from public life, particularly in the case of minorities?
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... Morley 1992). Another common theme running through a number of theories concerned with the media / identity relationship is that they either privilege a top-down or a bottom-up approach. Theories that argue for powerful media most often ...
... Morley and Brunsdon 1999; Scannell 1989). The former theories tend to focus on the media as technologies, while the latter focus more on the form or content of the media. Of course, these distinctions are not clear-cut and often ...
... Morley (2000) has observed, to think of broadcasting as a common and singular public sphere, as Scannell does, ignores the fact that all public spheres are inevitably exclusive. 'By the very way a programme signals to members of some ...
... Morley and Brunsdon in their Nationwide Television study (1999). In the introduction to a recent re-publication of the 1978 study, the authors, drawing on Anderson, argue that Nationwide and other programmes that succeeded it in the ...
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Contents
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Greece and its Minorities in Context | 29 |
Toward a Theory of Mediation | 43 |
Media Consumption Belonging and Boundaries | 55 |
6 News and the Projection of a Common Identity | 77 |
Critical Viewers Cultural Intimacy and Identity Experiences | 101 |
8 Conclusions | 133 |
Appendix I | 141 |
Appendix II | 147 |
Bibliography | 153 |
Index | 165 |
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