Media Events: A Critical Contemporary Approach

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Media Events — A Never Ending Story....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Media Events in the Aftermath of Terrorism: Exploring How Reporting Templates Produce Social Drama....Pages 13-30
Tahrir 2011: Contested Dynamics of a Global Media Event....Pages 31-52
International Broadcasting and the Conflict-related National Media Events: The Framing of EuroMaidan by the BBC and RT....Pages 53-70
The Coverage of Opposing Events: Brazil’s Sporting Mega-events Preparation and the Host Community Civil Protests....Pages 71-91
Crashing a National Media Event: The Circulation of Social Imaginaries in the Gatecrashers Riots in Finland....Pages 92-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
The Mental Mapping of Europe: Do Transnational Media Events Matter?....Pages 117-133
Euroelections as a European Media Event?....Pages 134-149
The Aftermath of a Media Event: A Decade of Journalistic Ambivalence on the Olympic Heritage of the 2004 Olympic Games of Athens....Pages 150-170
Surpassing the Media Event: The FA Cup 4th Round in the UK....Pages 171-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Transmedia Events: Media Coverage of Global Transactional Repertoires of Collective Action....Pages 189-206
EuroMaidan: Mediated Protests, Rituals and Nation-in-the-Making....Pages 207-229
Web 2.0 Media Events: Barack Obama’s Inauguration....Pages 230-242
Mobile Media Events: Social Cohesion through an IM App....Pages 243-261
Back Matter....Pages 262-275