Media Events and Reality Construction
Tomás Eon Barreiros (Centro Universitario Positivo Curitiba, Brazil) Media Events and Reality Construction 7th July 2007, 15:30, “Kleiner Saal” Media events have been one of the most important tools that builds the reality, according to what Elihu Katz and Daniel Dayan said about it (“In a further step, they enter the collective memory”). Through the news, selecting the supposedly most important facts, media creates a partial view of the world.