From media events to ritual to communicative form

Media Events in a Global Age

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-75

  Rothenbuhler, Eric W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203872604-14     Document Type: Chapter

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