Media Events

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, Greece, Portugal, Ukraine) and analyse the theory of media events from different perspectives, incorporating social media and offering a re-positioning of Dayan and Katz's theory of media events. By bringing new perspectives into this field, the proposed volume is an important contribution as it grounds the intervention and rethinking of the theory into further empirical research. This volume has the potential to function as a 'cross-generational' link between one of the 'early classics' of media and communication studies on the one hand and the present generation of researchers on the other.

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, Greece, Portugal, Ukraine) and analyse the theory of media events from different perspectives, incorporating social media and offering a re-positioning of Dayan and Katz's theory of media events. By bringing new perspectives into this field, the proposed volume is an important contribution as it grounds the intervention and rethinking of the theory into further empirical research. This volume has the potential to function as a 'cross-generational' link between one of the 'early classics' of media and communication studies on the one hand and the present generation of researchers on the other.

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, Greece, Portugal, Ukraine) and analyse the theory of media events from different perspectives, incorporating social media and offering a re-positioning of Dayan and Katz's theory of media events. By bringing new perspectives into this field, the proposed volume is an important contribution as it grounds the intervention and rethinking of the theory into further empirical research. This volume has the potential to function as a 'cross-generational' link between one of the 'early classics' of media and communication studies on the one hand and the present generation of researchers on the other.

PART I: OVERVIEW
1. Introduction: Media Events – a never ending story; Bianca Mitu and Stamatis Poulakidakos
PART II: DISRUPTIVE MEDIA EVENTS
2. Media events in the aftermath of terror: Exploring how reporting templates produce social drama; Julian Matthews
3. Tahrir 2011: Contested Dynamics of a Global Media Event; Johanna Sumiala and Lilly Korpiola
4. International broadcasting and the conflict-related national media events: The framing of EuroMaidan by the BBC and RT; Galina Miazhevich
5. The coverage of opposing events: Brazilian's sporting mega-events preparation and the host community civil protests; Sónia Pedro Sebastião, Ana Isabel Lemos and Isabel Soares
6. Crashing a National Media Event. Circulation of Social Imaginaries in the Gatecrashers Riots in Finland; Taneli Heikka, Turo Uskali and Katja Valaskivi
PART III: CEREMONIAL MEDIA EVENTS
7. The Mental Mapping of Europe – Do Transnational Media Events matter?; Dennis Lichtenstein
8. Euroelections as European media event; Mariaeugenia Parito
9. The aftermath of a media event. A decade of journalistic ambivalence on the Olympic heritage of the 2004 Olympic Games of Athens; Stamatis Poulakidakos
10. Surpassing the media event – the FA Cup 4th Round in the UK; Andrew Fox
PART IV: MEDIA EVENTS IN THE DIGITAL ERA
11. Transmedia events: media coverage of global transactional repertoires of collective action; Lázaro M. Bacallao-Pino
12. EuroMaidan: Mediated Protests,Rituals and Nation-in-the-Making; Dariya Orlova
13. Web 2.0 Media Events: Barack Obama's Inauguration (2009); Bianca Mitu
14. Mobile Media Events: Social Cohesion through an IM App; Xi Cui