Media Representations of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games

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February 4, 2015

 

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The Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games attracted substantive amounts of media attention and was therefore represented by the media in various ways. A discourse analysis of six texts produced by the print media to summarise and evaluate the Commonwealth Games reveals that news values and the defining features of a media event do not just effect decisions about what events are newsworthy...
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These aspects also influence the way that the event is represented in the media. In many of the texts the media portrays the Sydney Olympics overshadowing the Commonwealth Games. This demonstrates how the news value of negativity influences the ways the media represents an event. The texts also adhere to Dayan and Katz's understanding of the celebration of human achievement as a conquest...
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