Media Events: A Critical Contemporary Approach

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