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1 online resource (193 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society |
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Routledge research in sport, culture and society.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The rationale for a new approach; Applying an interactionist approach: Vancouver 2010 and its context; 1 Building an interpretive model: from macro to micro; The Olympics as a mediated event; Developing a micro perspective; Symbolic interactionist theory and the Olympics; Micro-interaction Olympic scenarios; Conclusion; 2 The Olympics as dramaturgy; The city as stage; The emergent storyline and the casting of the drama; An unfolding drama; The plebiscite as act 1: broadening and energizing public interest |
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Conclusion3 Framing: interpreting the Olympics project; Master frames and competing frames; The problem of frame resonance; Issues with competing frames; Counter-framing: organizations and protest; The media and framing; The media and protest; Other issues supporting counter-frames; Conclusion; 4 The public realm; Expectations of public responses to the games; Public space and private space; The Olympics and resident participation modes; The issue of street life during the Olympics; Public spaces in Vancouver; Analyzing the public realm during the Olympics; The street as a performance stage |
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Alternative street eventsThe meaning of the public realm; Conclusion; 5 The host city as a symbolic field; The symbolic power of the Olympics; The Olympics as a symbolic platform; The Olympics and patriotism; Symbols and emotion; Symbols and the public realm; Conclusion; 6 The social media and urban interaction; The internet and new media; Websites; Web searches; Twitter; The social media and public space; Conclusion; 7 The consequences of interaction: public opinion and the Olympics; Interaction and public opinion; Measuring host city public opinion |
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Evidence from the polling of public opinionExplaining the results; Conclusion; 8 Conclusion; The contribution of a micro approach; The contribution of dramaturgy; The urban perspective; Economic values versus other outcomes; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through the event itself. Traditional Olympic studies have tended to examine the Games from an outsider's perspective or as something experienced through the print media or television. In contrast, the focus presented here is on the dynamics within the host city understood as a community of interacting individuals who encounter the Games in a variety of ways through support, opposition, or even indifference but who have a profound influence on the outcome of the Games as actors and players in the Olympics as a drama |
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Print version record |
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City planning.
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Municipal government -- History
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Municipal services -- History
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Olympics.
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Olympics -- Management -- History
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Olympics -- Planning.
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Olympics -- Management
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City planning
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Municipal government
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Municipal services
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Olympics
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Olympics -- Planning
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136326752 |
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1136326758 |
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1280873213 |
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9781280873218 |
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9786613714527 |
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6613714526 |
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