Week 1: Alternative Media, Olympics as a case study
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Week 1, Alternative Media and Web Production module at Birmingham City University
Transcript of Week 1: Alternative Media, Olympics as a case study
Why the Olympics?
Sport?
The Olympics is not a Sporting
Event
Ceremony, Spectacle and Ritual
Corporate Sponsorship
Privatisation of public space
Cultural Programming
Protest and Resistance
The rhetoric of militarisation
Forced Evictions
History of Protest
Role of the media
Accredited
Non-Accredited
Citizen Journalism?
Who is the media?
What gets reported?
What do you know about alternative narratives of the
games?
