Media Events in a Global Age

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We live in an age where the media is intensely global and profoundly changed by digitalization. Not only do many media events have audiences who access them online, but additionally digital media flows are generating new ways in which media events can emerge. In times of increasingly differentiated media technologies and fragmented media landscapes, the ‘eventization’ of the media is increasingly important for the marketing and everyday appreciation of popular media texts. The events covered include Celebrity Big Brother, 9/11, the Iraq war and World Youth Day 2005 to give readers an understanding of the major debates in this increasingly high-profile area of media and cultural research. Cover MEDIA EVENTS IN A GLOBAL AGE Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: media events in globalized media cultures PART I Media events rethought 2 Beyond media events: disenchantment, derailment, disruption 3 "No more peace!" How disaster, terror and war have upstaged media events PART II The history and future of the media event 4 Historical perspectives on media events: a comparison of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 and the Tsunami catastrophe in 2004 5 From media events to ritual to communicative form 6 Media spectacle and media events: some critical reflections PART III Media events in the frame of contemporary social and cultural media theory 7 Creating a national holiday: media events, symbolic capital and symbolic power 8 Modalities of mediation 9 Media events, Eurovision and societal centers PART IV Media events and everyday identities 10 Permanent turbulence and reparatory work: a dramaturgical approach to late modern television 11 Media events and gendered identities in South Asia: Miss World going "Deshi" 12 Media event culture and lifestyle management: observations on the influence of media events on everyday culture PART V Media events and global politics 13 In pursuit of a global image: media events as political communication 14 9/11 and the transformation of globalized media events 15 Eventspheres as discursive forms: (re-)negotiating the "mediated center" in new network cultures PART VI Media events and cultural contexts 16 Sports events: the Olympics in Greece 17 Performing global "news": indigenizing WTO as media event 18 Religious media events: the Catholic "World Youth Day" as an example of the mediatization and individualization of religion 19 Conclusion: the media events debate: moving to the next stage Index