Olympic discourses and mediations: The Sun Newspaper and the London Olympic Bid Committee

Mackay, Clare

Abstract

Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of discourse, this paper discusses how journalistic discourses and practices and those of the London Olympic Bid Committee worked in tandem to influence readers of the UK newspaper with the greatest readership to back London's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.

Citation

Mackay, C. (2013). Olympic discourses and mediations: The Sun Newspaper and the London Olympic Bid Committee. In P. Drummond (Ed.), The London Reader 1: Papers from the First Annual London Studies Conference in 2011The London Symposium

• Publication Date: Jan 15, 2013
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: The London Reader 1: Papers from the First Annual London Studies Conference in 2011.
• Keywords: London 2012, Olympics, Olympic bidding, the mediatisation of events, Foucault, discourse