Media and Events in History Ytreberg Espen
Media and Events in History Ytreberg Espen The most intense hopes and fears of our collective lives centre around large-scale events - from competitions, celebrations and festivals to environmental…
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Media and Events in History Ytreberg Espen
The most intense hopes and fears of our collective lives centre around large-scale events - from competitions, celebrations and festivals to environmental disasters, pandemics and terror attacks. They are also where traces of events are stored for history. The media are a crucial part of this process: they enable the planning, resource allocation and circulation of the vital information needed to mount major events.
It discusses how they have come to involve extensive infrastructures, forms of control and anticipation, attention and participation, contingency and transformation, and articulations of the past and the future. In short, large-scale and collective events have been, and still are, mediated.Starting from nineteenth-century industrialisation, Media and Events in History explains how contemporary life has become saturated with events. Synthesising and