As shown in the graph displaying the number of countries broadcasting the Olympics and the revenue received from it, the fees for broadcasting the Olympics in the U.S. as greatly increased. Since the start of the broadcast of the Olympics in the 1960’s the fees that television networks were willing to pay for broadcasting […]
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 […]
A series of articles on The Economist journal regarding the assessment of economic impact on the London 2012 Olympics. http://www.economist.com/topics/2012-olympics and http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/15/london-2012-olympics-the-economist
Beijing Olympics Broadcasting Report Lots of good stats on viewership and the media methods at the Beijing Olympics. Most interesting is the fact that YouTube was used to broadcast to countries who didn’t have a major service provider. People from other countries were blocked from those channels. This could mean in the future that information […]
As opposed to cities like Berlin and Sarajevo in previous posts, Beijing seems to have lost no momentum following their Olympic games in 2008. Instead of letting their facilities lay to waste, several have been repurposed – and not always in conventional ways. For example, the Water Cube, designed by PTW Architects with Arup, has […]
What can a stadium be used for once it no longer is a venue to watch sports or other forms of entertainment? Can it serve as a community center for the future providing a central gathering space to buy, sell, and socialize? Can ti serve as a community garden?
Link here “Carlos Bueno, author of a kids’ book about understanding computers called Lauren Ipsum, describes what happens when the cadre of competing bots that infest Amazon’s sales-database began to viciously fight with one another over pricing for his book. It’s a damned weird story. “