Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics.
Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics.
Maurice Roche is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1 Mega events and macro social change PART I: Mega events and media change 2 Mega events and mediatisation: between 'old' and 'new' media 3 The 'Digital Age', media sport and mega events: 'piracy' and symbiosis in the cultural industries PART II: Mega events, legacy and urban change 4 Embedding mega events: staging spectacles in changing cities 5 Mega events and urban development: Olympics and 'legacies' 6 Mega events, urban space and social change: expos, parks and cities PART III: Mega events and global change in East and West 7 Mega events, globalisation and urban legacy: events in China in the early twenty first century 8 Mega events, glocalisation and urban legacy: London as an 'event city' and the 2012 Olympics Index
Introduction 1 Mega events and macro social change PART I: Mega events and media change 2 Mega events and mediatisation: between 'old' and 'new' media 3 The 'Digital Age', media sport and mega events: 'piracy' and symbiosis in the cultural industries PART II: Mega events, legacy and urban change 4 Embedding mega events: staging spectacles in changing cities 5 Mega events and urban development: Olympics and 'legacies' 6 Mega events, urban space and social change: expos, parks and cities PART III: Mega events and global change in East and West 7 Mega events, globalisation and urban legacy: events in China in the early twenty first century 8 Mega events, glocalisation and urban legacy: London as an 'event city' and the 2012 Olympics Index
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