Elihu Katz’s research while affiliated with Hebrew University of Jerusalem and other places

... Media rituals play a crucial role in legitimizing and naturalizing states of panic and trauma within the capitalist spectacle. As Dayan and Katz (1992) explain, media events-whether planned or emergent-are staged performances of power, order, and meaning. These rituals become even more potent when infused with traumatic or eroticized content. ...

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Mediated Trauma and Eroticized Panic in the Capitalist Spectacle: A South Asian and Bangladesh Perspectives

... This coverage frequently focuses on mythic narratives that draw upon positive, touching parts of the deceased's past (Kitch, 2002). In these circumstances, journalists act in a ritualistic way, constructing public events in which the public can feel like they are taking part (Dayan & Katz, 1992). Media coverage of the death of a celebrity gives audiences information, attitudes, and feelings to draw from in their mourning. ...

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Remembering the Flawed & Famous: How Journalists Address Sexual Misdeeds When Memorializing Male Icons

... È perciò fondamentale concepire la TV come entità tentacolare oltre il confine dello schermo, poiché questa premessa si pone alla base di elucubrazioni sull'inizio di una embrionale e preistorica convergenza mediale, anticipando di gran lunga il fenomeno che ha poi ridefinito l'intero assetto del rapporto tra media alla fine del secolo, in cui i medium utilizzano liberamente linguaggi e formati, indipendentemente dalla loro destinazione di nascita, introducendo forte ibridazione. Il fermento creativo stimola alla produzione di innovazioni televisivamente ispirate, dalle sensazionali e irriverenti forme e irrisolti contenuti, promossi come media events (Dayan & Katz, 1992) dall'echeggiante risonanza tra l'audience -rigorosamente al singolare -massiva. È ciò che genera il modello comunicativo nell'era del televisore e della televisione: spettacolare, monodirezionale e generalista, poiché i pochi canali disponibili e la rara moltiplicazione del dispositivo mediale in ambito domestico, coniugato dalla considerazione di audience come unicum, fa sì che i messaggi vengano distribuiti alla massa senza distinzioni. ...

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Towards a Better Television. L’impatto e il ruolo della TV nel design e nella critica sociale di Victor Papanek, 1954-1970

... Was Thema der öffentlichen Agenda wird und welche Positionen sich in der öffentlichen Meinung durchsetzen, ist das Resultat eines kollektiven Prozesses der Agendabildung, bei welchem die politischen Akteure, die Medien und das Publikum sich gegenseitig beeinflussen (vgl. Lang & Lang 1983). Dabei sind Journalisten auf Ereignisse fokussiert, die entweder institutionalisiert oder auch inszeniert sind. ...

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"Unruhe beheben – Kosten sparen". Diskriminierende Sprechakte der politischen und medialen Arena in der Schweiz 2012 bis 2022

... This has created a "hybrid media system" where news is generated and consumed across multiple platforms, traditional and digital (Chadwick, 2017). Katz and Dayan (2018) predicted the decline of media events due to the "proliferation of new media . . . endless interruption and talkback" that disperses audiences and challenges authority. ...

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Disruptive Media Event in a Divided Society: The Case of October 7 Atrocity Videos in Israel

... Yet, the advent of social media has again challenged the concept of opinion leadership. While Katz himself argued that opinion leadership should be retired due to identification issues (Katz and Fialkoff, 2017), the concept has regained relevance in the contemporary media environment, where information is passed on to people via social contacts within their online networks (Thorson and Wells, 2016). In the context of social media, curation by other social media users-meaning the selection, production, and filtering of information (Thorson and Wells, 2016)-significantly contributes to people's news and information exposure (Bergström and Jervelycke Belfrage, 2018;Newman et al., 2024), implying that the role of opinion leaders still remains important today. ...

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Revisiting opinion leadership in the digital realm: Social media influencers as proximal mass opinion leaders

... Despite some attempts at integration (Jensen, 1987; Jensen and Rosengren, 1990) these categories still appear disconnected in the literature and need to be integrated in a comprehensive framework. The categories that have been considered include: the socio-demographic location of the audience and their communities of meaning as determinants of the process of reading (Morley, 1980; Katz and Liebes, 1986; 1989; Lewis, 1992; Radway, 1986), the codes used by the audience and the media makers (Condit, 1989; Hall, 1980; Lewis 1986;, the reading histories of audiences, their everyday routines and interpretative frameworks (Hermes, 1993; Rogge, 1989), the pleasures the audience extract from the act of reading as a factor of resistance (Condit, 1989; Fiske, 1987; Hobson, 1989) the audience's uses of the text (Jensen, 1990 ), the cognitive structures employed in the act of reading (Dahlgren, 1986; Hoijer, 1992), the mode of address of different genres (Fiske, 1987) the context of reception (Morley, 1986) the influence of the media environment in meaning making (Morley and Silverstone, 1990 ), and the meaning which people attribute to their engagement with the medium or a certain program (Ang, 1985; Morley, 1991). Recent critiques of audience studies (Jensen, 1990; Garnham, 1990; Seaman, 1992) have placed a political question on the agenda of audience studies regarding the relationship between the audience's production of meaning and their concrete social action. ...

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The multifarious preferences of the text

... Now we have to become brothers in the family of Abraham." Official commemoration during the peace process created reconciliatory images; media ceremonies "were recycled as a movable feast-wandering from Washington, to Akaba, to the Arava desert, to the Lake of Galillee" (Liebes and Katz 1996). A particularly powerful gesture was King Hussein's empathy toward Israeli suffering; in 1997, after seven Israeli girls were killed by a Jordanian soldier, King Hussein personally visited their families. ...

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Narratives and International Reconciliation

... In their seminal work, Katz and Dayan (1986) identified three archetypes of media events that were at the center stage of memorable media coverage and that captured the attention of nations throughout most of the 20th century: (1) conquests describe great developments and unique steps for mankind, (2) contests refer to political, legal, or athletic confrontations, and (3) coronations display rites of passage of the famous and powerful. Towards the end of the 20th century, scholars observed a new type of event taking the place of ceremonial observances: disruptive media events, such as terror attacks, natural disasters, and wars (Jim� enez-Mart� ınez, 2014; Katz & Liebes, 2007;Weimann, 1987). ...

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How shared ties and journalistic cultures shape global news coverage of disruptive media events: the case of the 9/11 terror attacks

... The study regarding the changes in the media, that considered the death of 20 Portuguese public figures, who died between 1970 and 2014, showed that the position of the personality in the public sphere is a guarantee of a more extensive media treatment (Mota, 2017). The same analysis presented signs of a 'mourning journalism', in the coverage of some of these deaths, concluding that this is a moment of exception, somewhat following the idea of critical suspension mentioned by Dayan and Katz (2005). ...

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Mourning Salazar: the ideologic oriented grief in the Portuguese newspapers during the dictatorship