COMM 602 - Media Ritual

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Marvin. Fulfills ASC Culture Distribution. Examines the relationship between ritual, a 'traditional' and essential mode of group communication and the pervasive media environment of post-traditional society. While societies seem eager to ritualize with all media at their disposal, the historical innovation of mass mediated ritual appears to offer a significant challenge to the body-based social connectedness that has long been regarded as definitive for ritual communication. Students will read from religious, anthropological and media traditions of ritual scholarship to consider what rituals do, how they do it, how they can be said to succeed or fail and how mediated ritual modifies or transforms older systems of ritual communication.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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