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Media events and cosmopolitan fandom: 'Playful nationalism' in the Eurovision Song Contest
journal contribution
posted on 2017-06-08, 09:36 authored by Maria Kyriakidou, Michael SkeyMichael Skey, Julie Uldam, Patrick McCurdyAcademic literature on media events is increasingly concerned with their global dimensions and the applicability of Dayan and Katz's (1992) theoretical concept in a post-national context. This paper contributes to this debate by exploring the Eurovision Song Contest as a global media
event. In particular, we employ a perspective from 'inside the media event', drawing upon empirical material collected during the 2014 Eurovision final in Copenhagen and focusing on the experiences of fans attending the contest. We argue that the ESC as a media event is experienced by its fans as a cosmopolitan space, open and diverse, whereas national belonging is expressed in a playful way tied to the overall visual aesthetics of the contest. However, the bounded and narrow character of participation render this cosmopolitan space rather limited.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
International Journal of Cultural StudiesCitation
KYRIAKIDOU, M. ... et al, 2017. Media events and cosmopolitan fandom: 'Playful nationalism' in the Eurovision Song Contest. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 21 (6), pp.603-618.Publisher
Sage © The AuthorsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-05-30Publication date
2017Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal International Journal of Cultural Studies and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877917720238ISSN
1367-8779eISSN
1460-356XPublisher version
Language
- en