OLYMPIC METTLE:
Selected Resources on the Beijing Games from the Carnegie Council
With the start of the Summer Olympics drawing near, an expert panel met recently at the Carnegie Council to discuss “Olympic Mettle: Business, Civil Society, and Politics During the Beijing Games.”
The event featured scholar and journalist Ian Buruma; General Electric’s vice president of corporate citizenship Bob Corcoran; Qi Qianjin of the Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the UN; and Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch and editor of China’s Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian …

In an attempt to start assembling journalists that will be in Beijing, I’ve put together a Facebook group to share impressions, understanding and knowledge about orientation. If you’re going and you’re covering the Games as a journalist, please join the group:
 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10776325266&ref=mf
Andy Miah
email@andymiah.net

Having just watched the lighting ceremony in Olympia, I wanted to find a brief indication of the route, in part to become more familiar with regions of China, but also to record details of the coverage. It’s also one of the most remarkable cultural events of the Olympic programme.
Date Arrival
Mar-24 Lighting Ceremony at Olympia – Reporters without Frontiers protest in stadium and Tibet protestors in Olympia
March 24–29 Torch Relay in Greece
Mar-30 Greece …

New book with my following paper:
Miah, A., B. Garcia, et al. (2008). ‘We are the Media’: Non-Accredited Media & Citizen Journalists at the Olympic Gams. Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China. M. E. Price and D. Dayan. Michigan, University of Michigan Press: 320-345.
Owning the Olympics
Narratives of the New China

Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan, Editors

About the Book
“A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the Olympics tests the …

http://www.mediartchina.org/introduction
National Art Museum of China (NAMOC)
No. 1 Wusi Street Dongcheng District
Beijing 100010 P.R.China
Jun 10, 2008 -July 3, 2008
During the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the National Art Museum of China will present “SYNTHETIC TIMES – Media Art China 2008” in its current location at the center of Beijing. NAMOC is the only national art museum in China that is dedicated to research, presentation and promotion of modern and contemporary arts. “SYNTHETIC TIMES – Media Art China 2008”, scheduled from June 10th to July 3rd, will be one of the …

A week or so back the IOC launched their guidelines for blogging at the Beijing 2008 Games. The guidelines apply to ‘Accredited People’ and are directed principally towards athletes. In 2004, there were no guidelines for such practices, so these are a welcome articulation of the legal position athlets are in during Beijing.
Tomorrow, I’ll speak to Australia’s ABC radio about this subject, as there have been a number of incidents of interest that are particular to the Beijing Games, notably the prospect of its being utilized for political campaigning. While …

A new blog with contributions from our friend Susan Brownell, writing about the Olympics:
http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/ 

An interesting story, but not because Prince Charles is boycotting. Rather, I doubt very much that he was likely to go to the Games at all, so the boycott is entirely a publicity  stunt. All perfectly valid, but it begs the question as to what social significance the term boycott has. Surely, one has to have something at stake for the boycott to be some kind of principled sacrifice.
Free Tibet Campaign urging public figures to stay away
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In the UK, there has been a lot of coverage of ‘forced evictions’ surrounding the Beijing Games. This latest clip from the Guardian newspaper website offers a brief insight.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2008/jan/21/beijing.protests
It extends what Channel 4 did in November 2007 with its documentary, China’s Olympic Lie, which, is on You Tube. It’s very difficult to penetrate these issues as an outsider, but while evictions seem to take place around many mega-events, it’s hard to dismiss the testimonies of people in this footage as to how difficult it can become if you pose an …

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New Media at the Beijing Olympics
School of …