Format:
1 Online-Ressource (416 pages)
ISBN:
0472024507
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0472900498
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0472070320
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047205032X
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9780472070329
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9780472900497
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9780472050321
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9780472024506
Series Statement:
The new media world
Content:
"A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the Olympics tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of 'media events' by analyzing the mega-event of the information age: the Beijing Olympics. ... A good read from cover to cover."--Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, Asian/Middle Eastern Cultures & Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University From the moment they were announced, the Beijing Games were a major media event and the focus of intense scrutiny and speculation. In contrast to earlier such events, however, the Beijing Games are also unfolding in a newly volatile global media environment that is no longer monopolized by broadcast media. The dramatic expansion of media outlets and the growth of mobile communications technology have changed the nature of media events, making it significantly more difficult to regulate them or control their meaning. This volatility is reflected in the multiple, well-publicized controversies characterizing the run-up to Beijing 2008. According to many Western commentators, the People's Republic of China seized the Olympics as an opportunity to reinvent itself as the "New China"--a global leader in economics, technology, and environmental issues, with an improving human-rights record. But China's maneuverings have also been hotly contested by diverse global voices, including prominent human-rights advocates, all seeking to displace the official story of the Games. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from Chinese studies, human rights, media studies, law, and other fields, Owning the Olympics reveals how multiple entities--including the Chinese Communist Party itself--seek to influence and control the narratives through which the Beijing Games will be understood. digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org
Content:
One world, different dreams: the contest to define the Beijing Olympics /Jacques deLisle --Olympic values, Beijing's Olympic Games, and the universal market /Alan Tomlinson --On seizing the Olympic platform /Monroe E. Price --The public diplomacy of the modern Olympic Games and China's soft power strategy /Nicholas J. Cull --A very natural choice: the construction of Beijing as an Olympic city during the bid period /Heidi Ostbo Haugen --Dreams and nightmares: history and U.S. visions of the Beijing games /Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom --The fragility of Asian national identity in the Olympic Games /Sandra Collins --Journalism and the Beijing olympics: liminality with Chinese characteristics /Briar Smith --All under Heaven: megaspace in Beijing /Carolyn Marvin --From Athens to Beijing: the closing ceremony and Olympic television broadcast narratives /Christopher Kennett and Miguel de Moragas --New technologies, new narratives /Lee Humphreys and Christopher J. Finlay --Embracing wushu: globalization and cultural diversification of the Olympic movement /Hai Ren --We are the media: nonaccredited media and citizen journalists at the Olympic Games /Andy Miah, Beatriz García, and Tian Zhihui --Definition, equivocation, accumulation, and anticipation: American media's ideological reading of China's Olympic Games /Sonja K. Foss and Barbara J. Walkosz --Toward the future: the new Olympic internationalism /Christopher J. Finlay --Beyond media events: disenchantment, derailment, disruption /Daniel Dayan.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Owning the Olympics Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press : University of Michigan Library, ©2008
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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