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Media events : a critical contemporary approach / edited by Bianca Mitu (University of Wolverhampton, UK), Stamatis Poulakidakos (University of Bournemouth, UK)

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Media Events: A Critical Contemporary Approach proposes an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach of Dayan and Katz's theory of media events (1992) by applying it to contemporary situations. The contributing authors come from a range of countries (UK, USA, Mexico, Germany, Finland, Italy,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Mitu, Bianca, 1982- (Editor), Poulakidakos, Stamatis, 1980- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Subjects:
Mass media and culture.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Mass media > Political aspects.
Mass media and globalization.
Mass media > Influence.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: media events: a never ending story / Bianca Mitu and Stamatis Poulakidakos
  • Disruptive media events
  • Media events in the aftermath of terrorism: exploring how reporting templates produce social drama / Julian Matthews
  • Tahrir 2011: contested dynamics of a global media event / Johanna Sumiala and Lilly Korpiola
  • International broadcasting and the conflict-related national media events: the framing of EuroMaidan by the BBC and RT / Galina Miazhevich
  • The coverage of opposing events: Brazil's sporting mega-events preparation and the host community civil protests / Sónia Pedro Sebastião, Ana Isabel Lemos and Isabel Soares
  • Crashing a national media event: circulation of social imaginaries in the gatecrashers riots in Finland / Taneli Heikka, Katja Valaskivi and Turo Uskali
  • Ceremonial media events
  • The mental mapping of Europe: Do transnational media events matter? / Dennis Lichtenstein
  • Euroelections as European media event? / Mariaeugenia Parito
  • The aftermath of a media event: a decade of journalistic ambivalence on the Olympic heritage of the 2004 Olympic Games of Athens / Stamatis Poulakidakos
  • Surpassing the media event: the FA Cup 4th round in the UK / Andrew Fox
  • Media events in the digital era
  • Transmedia events: media coverage of global transactional repertoires of collective action / Lázaro M. Bacallao-Pino
  • EuroMaidan: mediated protests, rituals and nation-in-the-making / Dariya Orlova
  • Web 2.0 media events: Barack Obama's inauguration / Bianca Mitu
  • Mobile media events: social cohesion through an IM app / Xi Cui.

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