Media Events: A Critical Contemporary Approach proposes an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach of Dayan and Katz's theory of media events (1992) by applying it to contemporary situations. The contributing authors come from a range of countries (UK, USA, Mexico, Germany, Finland, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Ukraine) and analyse the theory of media events from different perspectives, incorporating social media and offering a re-positioning of Dayan and Katz's theory of media events. By bringing new perspectives into this field, the proposed volume is an important contribution as it grounds the intervention and rethinking of the theory into further empirical research. This volume has the potential to function as a 'cross-generational' link between one of the 'early classics' of media and communication studies on the one hand and the present generation of researchers on the other.

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