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We Are the Media: The Olympic Games and Media Activism

by Andy Miah on Dec 03, 2009

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Presentation given at University of the West of Scotland for British Academy visit.

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This research is based on 10 years of following discussions about emerging journalists communities In particular, 1 month field work in Beijing during 2006 with Dr Beatriz Garcia. The story to explain is that there is a mixed-regulated zone that has been in operation since, initially Barcelona, but more formally since Sydney 2000. My proposition is that these entities constitute forms of ‘Ambush Media’ mechanisms that re-focus the media gaze in various ways. The Poltiics and the Protest occurs on various levels. It occurs in the attempt from host cities to infiltrate the branding constraints of the IOC It consists in journalists attempting to infiltrate these new semi-regulated spaces It occurs through new media journalists who function in the deliberate absence of such environments It concerns the particularities of Beijing’s media story thus far.
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