Back the Bid
The London Olympic Bid Committee and the Sun newspaper
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2349128 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clare Mackay (0000-0002-4586-3884, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 410-421 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0193723512455922 |
| OpenAlex | W2134700294 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article explores how the London Olympic Bid Committee (LOBC) sought to gain the popular support required for London's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games by attempting to influence the journalists of the U.K. newspaper with the greatest readership to communicate their discourse to the host urban population. The research draws on Michel Foucault's concept of discourse to investigate whether and, more importantly, how the journalists of the Sun articulated the key statements that the LOBC sought to convey to the U.K. public in their coverage of London's bid for the 2012 Games in order to discover how collusion and tension between the discourses and practices of bid committees and those of journalists affect the statements articulated to the reader
Advertising · Audience measurement · Business · Collusion · Media studies · Newspaper · Order (exchange · Political science · Population · Public relations · Sociology · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |