[16134087 - Communications] It is their job to make sure that the long-term vision for the show stays intact_ Using insights from the television format industry to rethink the concept of media events.pdf (123.72 kB)
“It is their job to make sure that the long-term vision for the show … stays intact”: Using insights from the television format industry to rethink the concept of media events
The concept of media events continues to generate widespread debate among scholars around the globe. Studies that have challenged the concept’s functionalist foundations have undoubtedly sharpened our thinking. Conversely, approaches that have sought to expand the concept tend to confuse rather than clarify. In this paper, we argue that events that are planned, anticipated, and involve external organizations in their design demand a specific set of analytical tools. Furthermore, we draw a further distinction between one-off events and those that are cyclical in nature, with the latter being theorized using insights from studies of the television format industry. This approach not only focuses much needed attention on the production side of media events but also on the struggles between different interest groups (rights-holders, event hosts, media producers). We illustrate our arguments by drawing upon ethnographic material from the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest.
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CommunicationsVolume
47Issue
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32 - 49Publisher
De GruyterVersion
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© Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/BostonPublisher statement
This paper was published in the journal Communications and is available at https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2019-0159. The final publication is available at www.degruyter.com.Acceptance date
2019-11-05Publication date
2020-04-15Copyright date
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0341-2059eISSN
1613-4087Publisher version
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Dr Michael Skey. Deposit date: 5 November 2019Usage metrics
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