Beijing Olympics between Media, Sport and Politics: Perspectives from the Swiss and Italian Media

2013 ◽  
pp. 310-332
Keyword(s):  
Beijing Olympics

scholarly journals Emancipating the Image: The Beijing Olympics, Regeneration, and the Power of Performance

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Mei Barker
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Beijing Olympics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Susan Sontag ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Rapid Transformation

“In China, what makes an image true is that it is good for people to see it.” - Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1971 The Olympic Games gave the world an opportunity to read Beijing’s powerful image-text following thirty years of rapid transformation. David Harvey argues that this transformation has turned Beijing from “a closed backwater, to an open centre of capitalist dynamism.” However, in the creation of this image-text, another subtler and altogether very different image-text has been deliberately erased from the public gaze. This more concealed image-text offers a significant counter narrative on the city’s public image and criticises the simulacrum constructed for the 2008 Olympics, both implicitly and explicitly. It is the ‘everyday’ image-text of a disappearing city still in the process of being bulldozed to make way for the neoliberal world’s next megalopolis. It exists most prominently as a filmic image text; in film documentaries about a ‘real’ hidden Beijing just below the surface of the government sponsored ‘optical artefact.’ Film has thus become a key medium through which to understand and preserve a physical city on the verge of erasure.

scholarly journals Satellite-based estimates of reduced CO and CO2emissions due to traffic restrictions during the 2008 Beijing Olympics

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (14) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen M. Worden ◽  
Yafang Cheng ◽  
Gabriele Pfister ◽  
Gregory R. Carmichael ◽  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Beijing Olympics ◽  
2008 Beijing Olympics

The Beijing Olympics as a Campaign of Mass Distraction

2009 ◽  
Vol 197 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Brady
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Political Corruption ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Beijing Olympics ◽  
Sports Stadiums

AbstractFrom 2006 to 2008 the predominant theme in the Chinese media was preparations for the 2008 Olympics. These preparations were not merely about putting up new sports stadiums; China also underwent a massive public etiquette campaign, aimed at “civilizing” Chinese citizens. This was nominally so they could be good hosts during the Beijing Olympics. The 2006–08 emphasis on Olympic-related news coverage and the ongoing public morals campaign was what I have called a campaign of mass distraction: a propaganda campaign designed to mobilize the population around a common goal, and distract them from more troubling issues such as inflation, unemployment, political corruption and environmental degradation. This article discusses China's Olympics propaganda within the context of the modernization of the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda system – which has included incorporating practices originating in modern democratic states – and considers in what way changes in the propaganda system reflect changes in China's system of political control.

Ensuring and Promoting Food Safety During the 2008 Beijing Olympics

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 981-983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald G. Moy ◽  
Fanfan Han ◽  
Junshi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Beijing Olympics ◽  
2008 Beijing Olympics

scholarly journals Razlike u morfološkim karakteristikama atletičarki skakačica finalista olimpijskih igara u Pekingu // Differences in Morphological Characteristics of Female Athletics Jumpers Finalists of the Beijing Olympics

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ratko Pavlović
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
T Test ◽  
Beijing Olympics

Antropološki prostor je vrlo značajan i primaran u selekciji, usmjeravanju i postizanju rezultata u sportu. To se naročito ispoljava u vrhunskom sportu gdje se postižu izuzetni rezultati. Zavisno od sporta, sportske discipline zavisi i učešće i uticaj antropološkog prostora, odnosno njegovih segmenata na ukupan rezultat. Kada se opisuje i definiše određena populacija sportista, njihov morfološki prostor, najčešće se kao parametri analiziraju tjelesna visina, tjelesna masa, bodi mass index, a vrlo često i starosna dob ispitanika. Ovi parametri su vrlo pouzdani i daju realnu sliku o morfološkom prostoru ispitivane populacije. U radu su analizirane razlike u segmentima morfološkog prostora atletičarki skakačica, finalistkinja Olimpijskih igara u Pekingu. Uzorak je obuhvatio 32 takmičarke u četiri discipline (skok u dalj, skok u vis, troskok, skok motkom). Analizirane su razlike u tjelesnoj visini, masi tijela, BMI i starosnoj dobi. Za obradu podataka primjenjen je T-test za male nezavisne uzorke koji je potvrdio postojanje statistički značajnih razlika u tjelesnoj visini atletičarki u disciplinama: skok u dalj - skok u vis (T=-2.906, p<0.05), skok u vis - troskok (T=3,448; p<0.01), skok u vis - skok motkom (T=3,469; p<0.01). Razlike su potvrđene i u vrijednostima BMI u disciplinama: skok u vis-skok u dalj (T=3,496; p<0.01) i skok u vis-troskok (T=-3,136; p<0.01)

scholarly journals Association Between Changes in Air Pollution Levels During the Beijing Olympics and Biomarkers of Inflammation and Thrombosis in Healthy Young Adults

JAMA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 307 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Q. Rich ◽  
Howard M. Kipen ◽  
Wei Huang ◽  
Guangfa Wang ◽  
Yuedan Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Beijing Olympics ◽  
Pollution Levels
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