1st Edition
The Containment of Soccer in Australia Fencing Off the World Game
Documenting the Beijing Olympics:An Introduction D. P. Martinez, Dept. of Anthropology, SOAS
The Cultural Legacy of Olympic Posters John Hughson, International Football Institute, University of Central Lancashire
The ‘caged torch procession’: celebrities, protesters and the 2008 Olympic torch relay in London, Paris and San Francisco John Horne, University of Central Lancashire and Garray Whannel, University of Bedfordshire
‘Betwixt and Between’: Reflections on the Ritual Aspects of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics Jialing Luo, Dept. of Anthropology, Cambridge
Media representation of volunteers at the Beijing Olympic Games Charles Bladen, University of Greenwich Business School
China’s media viewed through the prism of the Beijing Olympics Kevin Latham, Dept. of Anthropology, SOAS
The Communication Gesture of the Beijing Olympic Games Chen Weixing, International Communication Studies Center, Communication University of China
Framing China and the world through the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, 1984-2008 Limin Liang, Northwestern University
A study of Guangdong TV’s Olympics coverage strategy Huang Yaohua, Guangdong Television, China
Personal, Popular and Information Portals Olympic news and the Use of Mobile Phones among Migrant Workers in Fuzhou LIU Jun, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Fuzhou University and Fujian Normal University
Olympiad, A Place of Linguistic Struggle – The Discursive Constitution of ‘Human Rights’ in the 2008 Beijing Olympics Hwang Yihjye, Modern East Asia Research Centre, Leiden University
Public Diplomacy Games: A Comparative Study of American and Japanese Responses to the Interplay of Nationalism, Ideology and Chinese Soft Power Strategies around the 2008 Beijing Olympics Christopher J. Finlay, The Annenberg School for Communication, The University of Pennsylvania, and Xin Xin, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of the University of Westminster
Human Rights and the Olympic Movement after Beijing Bruce Kidd, Faculty of Physical Education and Health, University of Toronto
The Tricolour in Beijing: Indian Sport, Olympism and Nationalism Boria Majumdar, Senior Research Fellow, University of Central Lancashire
Biography
Christopher Hallinan is Associate Professor with the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His research interests are within the politics of ethnic, racial and national identities, youth studies, and ethnographic research methods.
John Hughson is a Professor of Sport and Cultural Studies with the University of Central Lancashire. He was educated in Australia. His research interests are broadly within the social and historical study of culture with an emphasis on sport, particularly the connections between sport and other areas of culture including the arts.
