Media events: On the experience of not being there

Katz, Elihu; Dayán, Daniel

doi:10.1016/0048-721x(85)90017-x

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“…It is in manifestly defying such expectations that the contingent and the unpredictable validate a dimension of our experience which appears to resist our anticipations, and often our wishes, as 'reality', as something external and partly independent of us. In totalitarian societies like the Soviet Union, observed Elihu Katz and Daniel Dayan (in 1985), 'one has no chance to see the live broadcast of a Russian space missile lest in explode on takeoff. .…”

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Technology and the civil epistemology of democracy

Ezrahi

1992

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In analogy with Rousseau's concept of 'civil religion' as a system of 'positive dogmas', 'without which', as he observed, 'a man cannot be a good citizen', this paper advances the concept of 'civil epistemology' as the positive dogmas without which the agents of government actions cannot be held accountable by democratic citizens. The civil epistemology of democracy shapes the citizen's views on the nature of political reality, on how the facts of political reality can be known and by whom. Modern liberal democratic politics assumes that the exercise of political power can be manifest in a visible domain of publicly accessible facts. It rests on the Enlightenment faith in the powers of light and visibility to demystify political power, render political actors more exposed and therefore more honestly accountable and enlist the sense of sight as a vehicle of universal political participation. It is, in this context, that technology has come to play such an important symbolic role in the construction of the particular democratic genre of public action as a political spectacle. Democratic civil epistemology, and technology -in the widest sense of the word -as the prototype of action which can be observed in the field of visual perception, uphold the democratic conception of politics as a view. Together they define political actors as visible performers, journalists as observers (who translate actual seeing into virtual seeing) and the citizens as witnesses.

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“…Funerals and anniversaries are safer'. 31 They are safer because they can be more theatrically controlled. In democracy, technology is integrated by contrast into a political spectacle of actions and events which are at least partly but unavoidably unpredictable and resistant to staging.…”

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Technology and the civil epistemology of democracy

Ezrahi

1992

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“…Another possibility is to see the action in a time-independent mode via a recorded form. The three types of leisure activity, that of "being there", "being there temporally but not physically" and "sharing the activity at a different time and place" constitute very different experiences, as noted by Katz and Dayan (1985).…”

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The Impacts of Ict on leisure Activities and Travel: A Conceptual Exploration

2006

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This paper offers a conceptual exploration of the potential impacts of ICTs on leisure activities and the associated travel. We start by discussing what leisure is and is not. We point out that the boundaries between leisure, mandatory, and maintenance activities are permeable, for three reasons: the multi-attribute nature of a single activity, the sequential interleaving of activity fragments, and the simultaneous conduct of multiple activities (multitasking).We then discuss four kinds of ways by which ICT can affect leisure activities and travel: the replacement of a traditional activity with an ICT counterpart, the generation of new ICT activities (that displace other activities), the ICT-enabled reallocation of time to other activities, and ICT as a facilitator of leisure activities. We suggest 13 dimensions of leisure activities that are especially relevant to the issue of ICT impacts: location (in)dependence, mobility-based v. stationary, time (in)dependence, planning horizon, temporal structure and fragmentation, possible multitasking, solitary v. social activity, active v. passive participation, physical v. mental, equipment/media (in)dependence, informal v. formal arrangements required, motivation, and cost.The primary impact of ICT on leisure is to expand an individual's choice set; however whether or not the new options will be chosen depends on the attributes of the activity (such as the 13 identified dimensions), as well as those of the individual. The potential transportation impacts when the new options are chosen are ambiguous.

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“…In our study of great television ceremonies-Sadat in Jerusalem, the Pope in Poland, the Royal Wedding, the Kennedy funeral-we find that television can unify the world, or reassemble the British Empire, or reconcile formerly hostile nations, at least for a moment (Katz and Dayan, 1985). These structures correspond, on a symbolic level, to the media-induced structures which we know from technological theory, but also to those occasions in diffusion theory when new social networks arise to accommodate a revolutionary message in defiance of the networks of routine.…”

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