Title
The Integrated News Spectacle, Live 8, and the Annihilation of Time
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
Volume
32
Issue
1
Journal
Canadian Journal of Communication
First Page
29
Last Page
53
Abstract
In this article, the recent strategic turn by U.S.-based media corporations toward the use of broadband technologies, particularly online video, is assessed as a turning point in how news is being conceptualized, distributed, and consumed. Using the heuristic tool the integrated news spectacle, and its application to political, economic, and technological developments propelled forward by the 2005 Live 8 concerts, the authors analyze contemporary trajectories concerning the news and their more general implications regarding what Innisians refer to as the annihilation of time.
