The Media Event as an Aparatus for Time and Space The Media event can be conceptualized as a massive occasion in respect to both time and space. These events tend to revolve around news events ( a distiction to be made later) but are intensified through a period of speculation, coverage, and post event […]
Link here “Gearing up for the 2016 Olympic Games to be held here, officials celebrated plans for a futuristic “Olympic Park,” replete with a waterside park and athlete villages, promoting it as “a new piece of the city.” There was just one problem: the 4,000 people who already live in that part of Rio de […]
International environmental watchdogs, such as Greenpeace and the United Nations Environment Programme have become more vocal on large scale sporting events trying to get the respective organizing committees to think about all issues that encompass an event from pre-event planning to post-event reuse and recycling. Greenpeace has created Olympic Environmental Guidelines that outline 34 guidelines […]
More common for the Summer Olympic games. – Summer Olypics Cities – larger cities – large population – major commercial funding – much more popular and greater media coverage. Recent Olympic City Examples: Athens- 2004 – tried to follow the Barcelona plan but lacked the urban development strategy of it. – decided to focus more […]
In the mid to late 1800’s, traveling journalist became necessary for newspapers to satisfy the desire of communities for information during the Civil War. In order to obtain information, the journalists would have to travel to the news source, obtain the information, and then travel back. By the late 19th century, the journalist no longer […]