Media Events

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; Sonia Pedro Sebastiao, 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; Lazaro 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