Mega-Events and Social Change - Spectacle, Legacy and Public Culture

Informationen zum Autor Maurice Roche is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield Klappentext Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics. Zusammenfassung Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos! together with the organisations which control them! can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect! mark and influence! deeper social changes in the media! cities and global geopolitics. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1 Mega-events and macro-social change PART I: Mega-events and media change 2 Mega-events and mediatisation: between 'old' and 'new' media3 The 'Digital Age', media-sport and mega-events: 'piracy' and symbiosis in the cultural industries PART II: Mega-events, legacy and urban change 4 Embedding mega-events: staging spectacles in changing cities5 Mega-events and urban development: Olympics and 'legacies'6 Mega-events, urban space and social change: expos, parks and cities PART III: Mega-events and global change in East and West 7 Mega-events, globalisation and urban legacy: events in China in the early twenty-first century8 Mega-events, glocalisation and urban legacy: London as an 'event city' and the 2012 OlympicsIndex

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Roche, Roche Maurice
• Assisted by: John Horne (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781526117083
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1708-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Globalizing Sport Studies; Globalizing Sport Studies
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics & Paralympics, Sociology: sport & leisure, Sociology: sport and leisure, Urban communities, Sporting events and management, Sporting events & management, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects, Olympic and Paralympic games