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Transmedia Events: Media Coverage of Global Transactional Repertoires of Collective Action

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Media Events

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Media events, as defined by Dayan and Katz (1992), are public ceremonies, deemed historic, and broadcast live on television, and the term refers to how political systems exploit televised live, ceremonial and pre-planned events to celebrate and reproduce the social system. Katz (1980) has included, among necessary conditions for media events: the live transmission; of a pre-planned event; framed in time and space; featuring a heroic personality or group; having high dramatic or ritual significance; and the force of a social norm which makes viewing mandatory.

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Bacallao-Pino, L.M. (2016). Transmedia Events: Media Coverage of Global Transactional Repertoires of Collective Action. In: Mitu, B., Poulakidakos, S. (eds) Media Events. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137574282_11

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