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The ritual view of communication is a communications theory proposed by James W. Carey, wherein communication–the construction of a symbolic reality–represents, maintains, adapts, and shares the beliefs of a society in time. In short, the ritual view conceives communication as a process that enables and enacts societal transformation.
Feb 24, 2020 · The Ritual View. A ritual model of communication is directed not toward the extension of messages in space but toward the maintenance of society in time; not the act of imparting information but the representation of shared beliefs.
Feb 24, 2020 · The ritual model of communication is a communications theory proposed by James W. Carey. A ritual view of communication holds that we communicate not just to pass information, but more importantly, as a way to connect with others in order to maintain our communities.
Jul 5, 2023 · A ritual view of communication is directed not toward the extension of messages in space but toward the maintenance of society in time; not the act of imparting information but the representation of shared beliefs.
Jan 29, 2016 · The article revisits Carey’s famous “ritual view”—that saw mass communication and mass media as the primary ground for modern society—to elucidate how the notion of ritual can function as a theoretical category that is very useful for social and cultural analysis in the contemporary epoch.
- Biswarup Sen
- 2017
The appropriation of ritual by various scholarly disciplines and its simultane-ous application to a large number of heterogenous phenomena has made an unambiguous definition and structural grounding of the term very problem-atic.
In Ritual Communication, author Eric W. Rothenbuhler combines bibliographic essay and theory construction to provide a unique perspective on ritual as a special and powerful form of communication. Part I is a critical review of definitions of ritual from anthropology, sociology, communication studies, and other literature, ending with a ...
