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Owning the Olympics : narratives of the new China /

"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."--G...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Price, Monroe E., 1938-, Dayan, Daniel, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press : University of Michigan Library, ©2008.
Colección:New media world.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.