2024-03-28T14:24:00Zhttp://uobrep.openrepository.com/oai/requestoai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2300912020-04-23T07:28:49Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
News, celebrity, and vortextuality: a study of the media coverage of the Michael Jackson verdict.
Whannel, Garry
Michael Jackson
journalism
celebrity
media
This paper examines the transformation of news as a cultural commodity and a social process by the expansion in the range, volume, and circulation speed of media production. It introduces the concept of vortextuality and illustrates the vortextual effect with reference to the coverage of the verdict announcement in the trial of Michael Jackson. The nature of “news” has been transformed by new media technology, the erosion of the division between public and private, and the growth of a celebrity culture. during the last two decades the volume of information in circulation, and the speed of circulation and feedback of information have increased dramatically. These tendencies have given rise to an effect I term vortextuality, whereby major news stories have the power to dominate the news media to such an extent that all attention appears, temporarily, to be directed towards them. Editorials, cartoons, columns, features, phone-ins are all focused on the same issue. As with vortex-based natural phenomena, however, the vortextuality effect is unpredictable and short-lived. This paper illustrates some of the processes of vortextuality at work in the media coverage around the world of the announcement of the verdict in the Michael Jackson trial.
2012-06-21T13:10:58Z
2012-06-21T13:10:58Z
2012-06-21T13:10:58Z
2010-03
Article
Whannel, G. (2010) 'News, celebrity, and vortextuality: a study of the media coverage of the Michael Jackson verdict' Cultural Politics 6 (1): 65-84
1743-2197
10.2752/175174310X12549254318782
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/230091
Cultural Politics
en
http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/6/1/65.short
Bloomsbury publishers
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2300712012-10-18T09:13:47Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
Culture, politics and sport: blowing the whistle revisited.
Whannel, Garry
sports studies
sport
culture
politics
2012-06-21T13:09:03Z
2012-06-21T13:09:03Z
2012-06-21T13:09:03Z
2008
Book
Whannel, G. (2008) Culture, politics and sport: blowing the whistle revisited. New York: Routledge
9780415417075
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/230071
en
http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1406940~S20
Routledge
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2353982020-04-23T07:28:53Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
The ‘caged torch procession’: celebrities, protesters and the 2008 Olympic torch relay in London, Paris and San Francisco
Horne, John
Whannel, Garry
olympic torch relay
Olympic Games
Along with the opening and closing ceremonies, one of the major non-sports events associated with the modern Olympic Games is the torch relay. Although initiated in 1936, the relay has been subject to relatively little academic scrutiny. The events of April 2008 however will have cast a long shadow on the practice. This essay focuses primarily on one week (6–13 April) in the press coverage of the 2008 torch relay as the flame made its way from London to Paris in Europe and then to San Francisco in the USA. It discusses the interpretations offered in the mediated coverage about the relay, the Olympic Movement, the host city and the locations where the relay was taking place, and critically analyses the role of agencies, both for and against the Olympics, that framed the ensuing debate.
2012-07-24T08:45:35Z
2012-07-24T08:45:35Z
2012-07-24T08:45:35Z
2010-06-29
Article
Horne, J. and Whannel, G. (2010) "The ‘caged torch procession’: celebrities, protesters and the 2008 Olympic torch relay in London, Paris and San Francisco", Sport in Society, 13 (5), pp.760-770
1743-0437
1743-0445
10.1080/17430431003650950
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/235398
Sport in Society
en
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17430431003650950
Archived with thanks to Sport in Society
Taylor and Francis
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951052020-04-23T07:30:26Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
Culture, politics and sport: blowing the whistle, revisited
Whannel, Garry
Garry Whannel’s text Blowing the Whistle: The Politics of Sport broke new ground when it was first published in 1983. Its polemical discussion brought sports as cultural politics into the academic arena and set the agenda for a new wave of researchers. Since the 1980s sport studies has matured both as an academic discipline and as a focus for mainstream political and public policy debate. In Culture, Politics and Sport: Blowing the Whistle, Revisited, Garry Whannel revisits the themes that led his first edition, assessing their 1980s context from our new millennium perspective, and exploring their continued relevance for contemporary sports academics.
2013-07-03T08:52:12Z
2013-07-03T08:52:12Z
2013-07-03T08:52:12Z
2008
Book
Whannel, G. (2008) 'Culture, politics and sport:
blowing the whistle, revisited'. Oxon: Routledge.
9780415417075
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295105
en
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415417075/
Routledge
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951352020-04-23T07:30:26Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
Understanding the Olympics
Horne, John
Whannel, Garry
The Olympic Games is unquestionably the greatest sporting event on earth, with television audiences measured in billions of viewers. By what process did the Olympics evolve into this multi-national phenomenon? How can an understanding of the Olympic Games help us to better understand international sport and society? And what will be the true impact and legacy of the London Olympics in 2012? Understanding the Olympics answers all of these questions, and more, by exploring the full social, cultural, political, historical and economic context to the Olympic Games. It traces the history of the Olympic movement from its origins in ancient Greece, through its revival in the nineteenth century, to the modern mega-event of today.
2013-07-03T08:56:17Z
2013-07-03T08:56:17Z
2013-07-03T08:56:17Z
2011
Book
Horne, J. and Whannel, G. (2011) 'Understanding the olympics'. Oxon: Routledge.
9780415558365
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295135
en
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415558365/
Routledge
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951312020-04-23T07:30:26Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
Television and the transformation of sport
Whannel, Garry
sport
Olympic games
football
Sport played a significant part in the growth of television, especially during its emergence as a dominant global medium between 1960 and 1980. In turn, television, together with commercial sponsorship, transformed sport, bringing it significant new income and prompting changes in rules, presentation, and cultural form. Increasingly, from the 1970s, it was not the regular weekly sport that commanded the largest audiences but, rather, the occasional major events, such as the Olympic Games and football’s World Cup. In the past two decades, deregulation and digitalization have expanded the number of channels, but this fragmentation, combined with the growth of the Internet, has meant that the era in which shared domestic leisure was dominated by viewing of the major channels is closing. Yet, sport provides an exception, an instance when around the world millions share a live and unpredictable viewing experience.
2013-07-03T08:38:58Z
2013-07-03T08:38:58Z
2013-07-03T08:38:58Z
2009
Article
Whannel, G. (2009) 'Television and the transformation of sport', The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 625 (1), pp.205-218.
0002-7162
10.1177/0002716209339144
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295131
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
en
http://ann.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/0002716209339144
Archived with thanks to The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Sage Journals
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951282020-04-23T07:30:26Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
Winning and losing respect: narratives of identity in sport films
Whannel, Garry
This essay examines sport films in terms of respect, identity and individualism. It suggests that a common narrative structure in films featuring sport based stories involves the winning, or sometimes losing, of respect. Success in narrative terms is not so much associated with sporting victory as in winning the respect of others. Through these narrative structures, issues of identity are explored. In particular, the narratives trace the ways in which characters respond to challenges by changing. In this sense these films are rooted in an ideology of competitive individualism which is a distinct product of capitalism as it developed in the United States of America. So while women, Jews, Afro-Americans and British Asian girls all find fulfilment through the narrative journey of these films, it tends to be within the terms of the competitive individualist ideology. Only where the concept of respect and its association with sport performance is challenged or questioned do sport films tend to raise more profound questions about the individual in society.
2013-07-03T08:28:06Z
2013-07-03T08:28:06Z
2013-07-03T08:28:06Z
2008
Article
Whannel, G. (2008) 'Winning and losing respect: narratives of identity in sport films', Sport in Society: cultures, commerce, media, politics, 11 (2-3), pp.195-208.
1743-0437
1743-0445
10.1080/17430430701823422
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295128
Sport in Society
en
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17430430701823422
Archived with thanks to Sport in Society
Taylor and Francis
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951342020-04-23T07:30:26Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
Reflections on communication and sport: on mediatization and cultural analysis
Whannel, Garry
media
sport
research
In this essay, Garry Whannel reflects on why research on media and sport has often been disdained by traditional academia and liberal intelligentsia. The first section argues that mediated sports are an important constituent part of popular culture, making its discourses worthy of scholarly study. The second section considers how early studies of mediated sport set in the tradition of British cultural studies opened the door to a inquiry that has grown in importance in both critical sport and media studies. The central section focuses on the complexities of “sport analysis, snobbery, and anti-intellectualism.” Considered here is the early and continued resistance to the study of media and sport and its derogatory stigmatization as a “Mickey Mouse” subject even in the face of excellent scholarship that has developed around the cultural and political analysis of sport. The article closes with suggestions for future work and ways to change narrative constructions of the field.
2013-07-03T08:45:16Z
2013-07-03T08:45:16Z
2013-07-03T08:45:16Z
2013
Article
Whannel, G. (2013) 'Reflections on communication and sport: on mediatization and cultural analysis', Communication and Sport, 1 (1-2), pp.7-17.
2167-4795
2167-4809
10.1177/2167479512471335
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295134
Communication and Sport
en
http://com.sagepub.com/lookup/doi/10.1177/2167479512471335
Archived with thanks to Communication and Sport
Sage Journals
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951332020-04-23T07:30:26Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
News, celebrity, and vortextuality: a study of the media coverage of the Michael Jackson verdict
Whannel, Garry
news
celebrity
vortextuality
Michael Jackson
This paper examines the transformation of news as a cultural commodity and a social process by the expansion in the range, volume, and circulation speed of media production. It introduces the concept of vortextuality and illustrates the vortextual effect with reference to the coverage of the verdict announcement in the trial of Michael Jackson. The nature of “news” has been transformed by new media technology, the erosion of the division between public and private, and the growth of a celebrity culture. during the last two decades the volume of information in circulation, and the speed of circulation and feedback of information have increased dramatically. These tendencies have given rise to an effect I term vortextuality, whereby major news stories have the power to dominate the news media to such an extent that all attention appears, temporarily, to be directed towards them. Editorials, cartoons, columns, features, phone-ins are all focused on the same issue. As with vortex-based natural phenomena, however, the vortextuality effect is unpredictable and short-lived. This paper illustrates some of the processes of vortextuality at work in the media coverage around the world of the announcement of the verdict in the Michael Jackson trial.
2013-07-03T08:42:00Z
2013-07-03T08:42:00Z
2013-07-03T08:42:00Z
2010
Article
Whannel, G. (2010) 'News, celebrity, and vortextuality: a study of the media coverage of the Michael Jackson verdict', Cultural Politics, 6 (1), pp.65-84.
1743-2197
1751-7435
10.2752/175174310X12549254318782
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295133
Cultural Politics: an International Journal
en
http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=1743-2197&volume=6&issue=1&spage=65
Archived with thanks to Cultural Politics: an International Journal
Duke University Press
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2950802013-07-03T09:33:02Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
Delight in trivial controversy? questions for sport journalism
Whannel, Garry
Boyle, Raymond
Rowe, David
2013-07-02T16:47:22Z
2013-07-02T16:47:22Z
2013-07-02T16:47:22Z
2009
Book chapter
Whannel, G., Boyle, R. and Rowe, D. (2009) 'Delight in trivial controversy? Questions for sport journalism', in Allan, S. (ed.) The Routledge companion to news and journalism. Routledge: London, pp. 245-255.
9780415669535
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295080
en
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415465298/
Routledge
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951272013-07-03T09:20:36Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
The united and the damned: masculinities, fathers and sons in The Damned United
Whannel, Garry
2013-07-03T08:12:08Z
2013-07-03T08:12:08Z
2013-07-03T08:12:08Z
2011
Book chapter
Whannel, G. (2011) 'The united and the damned: masculinities, fathers and sons in The Damned United', in Shaw, K. (ed.) Analysing David Peace. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 93-106.
9781443829908
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295127
en
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Analysing-David-Peace1-4438-2990-0.htm
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2950732016-11-11T17:19:51Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
Between culture and economy: understanding the politics of media sport
Whannel, Garry
2013-07-02T16:42:25Z
2013-07-02T16:42:25Z
2013-07-02T16:42:25Z
2008
Book chapter
Whannel, G. (2008) 'Between culture and economy: understanding the politics of media sport', in Carrington, B. and McDonald, I. (eds.) Marxism, cultural studies and sport, London: Routledge, pp.68-88.
9780415375412
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295073
en
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415375412/
Routledge
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2971262013-07-29T10:07:00Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
Beer sponsors football: what could go wrong?
Horne, John
Whannel, Garry
2013-07-29T08:23:36Z
2013-07-29T08:23:36Z
2013-07-29T08:23:36Z
2009
Book chapter
Horne, J. and Whannel, G. (2009) 'Beer sponsors football: What could go wrong ?', in Wenner, L.A. and Jackson, S.J. (eds.) Sport, beer and gender: promotional culture and Contemporary social life, ch.3, pp. 55-74. Peter Lang: New York
9781433104886
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/297126
en
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=53907&concordeid=310488
Peter Lang
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2971032013-07-29T10:05:08Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
Caught in the spotlight: media themes in the build-up to the Beijing Olympic Games
Whannel, Garry
2013-07-29T08:24:30Z
2013-07-29T08:24:30Z
2013-07-29T08:24:30Z
2008
Book chapter
Whannel, G. (2008) 'Caught in the spotlight: media themes in the build-up to the Beijing Olympic games', in Barney, R.K. et al. (eds.) Pathways : critiques and discourse in Olympic research : Ninth International Symposium for Olympic Research, pp. 247-255. London, Ontario: International Centre for Olympic Studies
97898817951173
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/297103
en
http://olympicstudies.uab.es/olympicstudiesnet/centres_det_2.asp?CD_COUNTRY=35&ID_ORGANISATION=61
International Centre for Olympic Studies
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2959672013-07-15T11:02:58Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132261
Masculinities and the production of media representations in sport
Whannel, Garry
2013-07-15T09:44:54Z
2013-07-15T09:44:54Z
2013-07-15T09:44:54Z
2007
Book chapter
Whannel, G. (2007) 'Masculinities and the production of media representations in Sport', in Aitchison, C. (ed.) Sport and gender identities
masculinities, femininities and sexualities, ch. 1, pp. 7-21. Abingdon: Routledge
9780415259576
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295967
en
http://www.routledgementalhealth.com/books/details/9780415259576/
Routledge