Media Events
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Golda Meir's relationship with the gender issue and the feminist movement was complex and ambivalent. This was evident both on the level of public perception in Israel and around the world, and on that of her own identity as a female... more
"In his seminal study of Banal Nationalism (1995), Michael Billig posed an important question; why is it that people in Western nations such as Britain and the USA don’t forget their national identity outside of special commemorations... more
This theoretically based paper will explore the relationship between the 2006 FIFA World Cup as a global media event, and the role of (tans-)national representations within this framework. What significance do forms... more
Social media and social networking sites (SNS) in particular have become popular in current humanitarian campaigns. This article assesses the optimism surrounding the opportunities that SNS communication offers for humanitarian action and... more
本文將首先對集體記憶、媒介事件和新媒体事件、媒介事件的集體回憶、新媒体事件的集體記憶四個領域的學術文獻進行梳理和回顧,為關鍵概念確立定義並且根據... more
There was no Berlin Wall and it never fell. In this book I show that these claims are not in any way radical. My book is neither about conspiracy theories, nor about the fragile nature of truth. Instead, it considers the ways in which we... more
This research examined the journalistic coverage of the month following the death of ten statesmen and three cultural figures between 1904 and 1995 in 14 Hebraic newspapers. The analysis leaned on three main theoretical approaches: media... more
„Reichspropagandaminister“ Joseph Goebbels verkündete in seiner Rede vor den Vertretern der ausländischen Presse unmittelbar vor den Olympischen Spielen 1936, das „scharfe Instrument [der Presse] in den Dienst des Friedens und... more
Croatia’s “Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day” (VHTD) is a state-sponsored event that commemorates the 1995 reclaiming of Croatian territories and the end of the Yugoslav war in Croatia. During this live-broadcast spectacle, Croatian... more
This article traces the trajectory of Baudrillard’s thought on simulation so as to critically compare this concept to the reigning definition of media events (Dayan and Katz, 1992). The present study begins by mapping the relevance of... more
Neste trabalho, intenta-se analisar os processos de circulação da mobilização no microblog Twitter “Eu não mereço ser estuprada”. Para tanto, articulam-se os conceitos de midiatização, circulação e acontecimento, tensionando o modo como... more
Głównym tematem książki jest proces mediatyzacji polityki podczas amerykańskiej kampanii prezydenckiej 2008 roku i właśnie z nim związana jest podstawowa hipoteza badawcza: media masowe w relacjach z polityką zdobywają pozycję centralną i... more
Event adalah media komunikasi yang merupakan jembatan untuk meyampaikan suatu maksud atau tujuan dari pemilik event kepada target tertentu. Pada era ini event banyak diselenggarakan sebagai media promosi ataupun informasi. Perguruan... more
All over the world diplomatic incidents create time and again unexpected concern amongst chanceries, capturing immediately global media attention and public interest. Despite this, their academic treatment remains either fleeting and... more
First of all we wish to reveal certain universally-structuralist qualities, same as culturally-relative features of scandals and their mediation in a non-Western society. Secondly, we will illuminate how the mass media take active part in... more
Dans son livre de 2014 décrivant son expulsion de Norvège, Maria Amelie configure une esthétique des frontières politiques convoquant les figures des fenêtres, des miroirs et des objectifs de caméras.
In a journal article entitled "'No More Peace!': How Disaster, Terror and War Have Upstaged Media Events" (2007), Elihu Katz and Tamar Liebes offered a substantial revision of Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History (Dayan & Katz,... more
ENGLISH (French below): This paper investigates the main features of media scandal in contemporary Japan. This is important because it can add a fresh interdisciplinary direction in the fields of media studies, journalism, and Japanese... more
Television's coverage of the tragic events of September 11 can be viewed and understood as a paradigmatic disaster marathon. The salience of the attack's visual images, their exclusivity on the screen for a protracted period, and the... more
What is so eventful about an event movie's arrival to the multiplex, and how does this eventfulness function as both an industry strategy and audience experience? Synthesizing an analysis of trade discourses, promotional campaigns, and... more
Essay following the "Watching Music Video" conference at Cité de la musique in Paris, December 2016.
Media events have been described as broadcasts that involve an engaged audience viewing the same event simultaneously; though this definition is still relevant, the way media outlets interact with and react to their audiences has greatly... more
The article argues that after December 2008 the continuous presence in public space in Athens, as well as the spectacular mediatization by news media, of various forms of so-called “anomie” and since 2012 of its spectacular and violent... more
In January 2012 a moral panic about ‘hoon cyclists’ erupted after sports celebrity Shane Warne had an altercation with a cyclist on St Kilda Road, Melbourne. Warne took to Twitter and posted an account of the event. The altercation served... more
Academic literature on media events is increasingly concerned with their global dimensions and the applicability of Dayan and Katz’s theoretical concept in a post-national context. This article contributes to this debate by exploring the... more
The contemporary reformulation of the media events framework often focuses on the transformative role of mobile, video and social networking technologies in a global context, eclipsing another fundamental dimension: the... more
‘‘Media events’’ generate conditions of shared attention as many users simultaneously tune in with the dual screens of broadcast and social media to view and participate. We examine how collective patterns of user behavior under... more
Two different forms of understanding media events have dominated the literature in recent times. One of them, represented by the original framework of Dayan and Katz, proposes that these extraordinary situations have positive hegemonic... more
Recent work on media events has questioned their integrative function, arguing that they operate as sites of symbolic struggle between different interest groups. However, there have been relatively few studies of the experiences of those... more
Pensar a problemática do acontecimento no campo da comunicação suscita uma discussão ampla que remete a um diálogo pluridisciplinar. Da forma como este trabalho pretende discutir acontecimento, as reflexões dialogam com a questão da... more
Jene Ereignisse, die als „Medienereignisse“ in das kollektive Gedächtnis eingehen, werden gemeinhin an einem außergewöhnlich großen Medienpublikum festgemacht („huge audience – the whole world watching“, Katz & Liebes 2007, 158). Trotz... more
This study applies a most similar systems design to examine ‘anniversary journalism’ of two epic global events in the year 1989 – the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen crackdown – as reported by the elite press in the United... more
Pirms teikt jebko citu – 16. marta norises Rīgas centrā jau ilgstoši ir izteikts mediju notikums. Tā vēsta manis pirms četriem gadiem rakstīta publikācija šajā pašā portālā “Delfi”.1 Diemžēl nekādā veidā necentīšos iepriekš rakstīto... more