%0 Journal Article
%T Media and Social Solidarity: Assessing Dayan and Katz's ¡®Media Events¡¯
%A Zlatan Krajina
%J Medijske Studije
%D 2012
%I Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
%X While a convincing set of arguments exist in favor of the integrative role of media in contemporary societies, there remains suspicion based on the relative nature of what counts as ¡®common values¡¯ for whom. In this paper I delineate some of the key problems related to matters of mediated social solidarity, as instigated by Dayan and Katz¡¯s famous neo-Durkheimian perspective of ¡®media events,¡¯ the exceptional gatherings produced by live media coverage of events like ¡®contests, conquests and coronations¡¯, which, arguably, interrupt routine and affirm social cohesion. I review some of the relevant literature in the field, with a brief case study of the homecoming of Croatian Winter Olympic 2002 winner Janica Kosteli . I show that, in the context of the proliferation of new media and global broadcasting, media events should be understood more modestly as momentary encounters with media¡¯s representation of cohesion, while actual solidarity remains contingent upon the inter-discursiveinteraction with an event¡¯s program.
%K media events
%K public
%K television
%K society
%K solidarity
%K sociability
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