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The Medium Of Television In Modern Society Ceremony

Posted on:2009-04-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T H ShenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2208360302476365Subject:Journalism
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Every society has a centre. In the religious community, the centre of it was composed by religious beliefs and rituals. In modern society, the religious is losing its status, the mass media, especially the TV media, has become the centre. TV can make some programs as festival, abstract all the national and even global audiences participate in the program with ritual mentality. I call this kind of TV program "TV Media Ceremony".TV media ceremony is a new TV program style, which combined the ritual view of the cultural anthropology. Actually, TV media ceremony has been on TV screen already, and TVs have paid attention to it. But, it appears as the traditional TV program styles, so we always can't recognize it, neglect research about it, and lead to the research far behind the practice.In order to master the features and functionalities of TV media ceremony, so as to provide theoretical guidance to the practice, and make a system research on TV media ceremony, it is very important to clarify the significances and functionalities of TV media ceremony. So, from the view of cultural anthropology, the article introduce the ritual view in the research of TV, try to disclose the value and functionalities of TV media ceremony by defining it and analyzing some classic cases of this kind of TV program.I found that TV media ceremony is such TV program with symbolic, performing, repeatability characters, the audience participate it and get the ritual experience, and found a kind of symbolic action procedure. TV media ceremony has unique specialists such as non-routine, monopoly, prediction, and these characters diff TV media ceremony with other TV programs.According to different standards, TV media ceremony can be divided into some different types such as Festival Ceremony, Theme Ceremony, Political Ceremony, Competitive Ceremony, Coronation Ceremony, Conquest Ceremony. Aggregation Ceremony and Order Ceremony etc. The article selects some classic cases to analyze in order to make some micro-research on TV media ceremony. In the TV media ceremony, the traditional TV roles have changed. The TV organization has become the organizer of ceremonies, and the moderator is the high priest, while the audiences are devotional worshiper.TV media ceremony combines the functionalities of ceremony and TV, and strengthens the functionality of TV further more. It can famous the TV organizations and moderators, so as to get the support from audience and advertiser. It also can satisfy the requirements that people eager to enter the community, and provide a channel through which audience can vent emotions. It can consolidate collective emotions and maintain the unity of community. It stresses the order of society and highlights the core value of society. It eases the contradictions of society and provides chances to society to make adjustments. It inherits culture, and plays a key role in cultural extension and innovation.
Keywords/Search Tags:TV, Cultural Anthropology, TV Media Ceremony
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