New publication: Olympic humanitarianism – the fundamental principles of Olympism
The Journal of Olympic History recently features on the cover of its latest number my article “Olympic humanitarianism: the fundamental principles of Olympism”. While I have published shorter articles on the same topic before in Culture @ the Olympics and Sportanddev.org this is the article that contains the research that informed them. This article, […]
You can now find my PhD thesis in the British Library collection of electronic theses. Below is the abstract of my thesis: The Olympic Games is a mechanism through which numerous advocacy and political groups compete to frame the media coverage that it generates. These processes are restricted by the relatively fixed guidelines imposed upon […]
Beijing: when humanitarian issues and Olympic values collide
Earlier this summer I wrtoe a short piece for Sportanddev.org about the challenges the IOC and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games organizers faced when questions about human rights, approved freedom of speech and freedom of the press were raised by internaitonal media and advocacy groups. The entire article is here. Here’s an excerpt: […]
This semester saw me developing and teaching a new extensive course. Following the positive evaluations received from the students taking the New Media course at Katho and their calls for more specialized courses, treatment I was asked to prepare and deliver an introductory course on Branding. The course After extensive research of other branding courses […]
MeCCSA-PGN: UK media framing of the Beijing 2008 Olympics
Last week I have delivered my last conference presentation for this academic year and conference season. It’s been a busy year, recipe the MeCCSA paper being in fact my 4th for this year (after 2 in Vancouver and 1 in the US at the Power of Sport Summit). There are two more presentations scheduled for […]
There were two Olympism sessions at the ISDPA Power of Sport Summit touching mainly on two major topics: youth (as in the Youth Olympic Games and Olympic Education) and Human Rights (as in the Charter as a human rights promotion mechanism and one on the Olympic Truce). To them Dr Mary Hums’ presentation on a […]
Last week I was in Coventry, gynecologist UK, to present a paper at Play the Game 2009, one of the biggest communication conferences on sport and society, now at its 6th edition. It was a busy conference with many speakers coming from a very wide range of fields and institutions, starting from sports journalism up […]
