Media Events

Dr. Bianca Mitu is Senior Lecturer in Broadcasting and Journalism at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Before this, she held a Lecturer position at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She is a former journalist and holds a Ph.D. in Media and Communication Studies. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Westminster and the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her research interests lie in television studies, internet studies and media sociology. Bianca has an outstanding international scientific background, and has published in international journals from the UK, Italy, Germany and the USA. She is the Head of CCMRC.eu Research Centre, an active member of important international scientific associations, including IAMCR, ECREA, MeCCSA, and an active editorial board member of Journal of Journalism and Mass Communication, Interpersona, and International Journal of Communication and Health.Dr. Stamatis Poulakidakos is a Lecturer in Digital Marketing Communications at the University of Bournemouth, UK. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, University of Athens, Greece where he accomplished his PhD on propaganda and the presentation of the MoU for the Greek bailout by the Greek media. He also holds a Master's Degree in New Media, Information and Society from the London School of Economics. He has taken part in various research activities in Mass Media and has participated as speaker in Greek and international conferences.

• PART I: OVERVIEW1. Introduction: Media Events – a never ending story; Bianca Mitu and Stamatis PoulakidakosPART II: DISRUPTIVE MEDIA EVENTS2. Media events in the aftermath of terror: Exploring how reporting templates produce social drama; Julian Matthews3. Tahrir 2011: Contested Dynamics of a Global Media Event; Johanna Sumiala and Lilly Korpiola4. International broadcasting and the conflict-related national media events: The framing of EuroMaidan by the BBC and RT; Galina Miazhevich5. 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 Soares6. Crashing a National Media Event. Circulation of Social Imaginaries in the Gatecrashers Riots in Finland; Taneli Heikka, Turo Uskali and Katja ValaskiviPART III: CEREMONIAL MEDIA EVENTS7. The Mental Mapping of Europe – Do Transnational Media Events matter?; Dennis Lichtenstein8. Euroelections as European media event; Mariaeugenia Parito9. The aftermath of a media event. A decade of journalistic ambivalence on the Olympic heritage of the 2004 Olympic Games of Athens; Stamatis Poulakidakos10. Surpassing the media event – the FA Cup 4th Round in the UK; Andrew FoxPART IV: MEDIA EVENTS IN THE DIGITAL ERA11. Transmedia events: media coverage of global transactional repertoires of collective action; Lázaro M. Bacallao-Pino12. EuroMaidan: Mediated Protests,Rituals and Nation-in-the-Making; Dariya Orlova13. Web 2.0 Media Events: Barack Obama's Inauguration (2009); Bianca Mitu14. Mobile Media Events: Social Cohesion through an IM App; Xi Cui