Citizen journalism is nothing new to our world of available technology. It has become second nature for people to capture their experience, events or news in their environments on their phones, cameras or computers. We live in a world were journalism is an action and all of citizens have stepped forth into that call to action.

However, this is the first Olympic Games of its kind were the real stories that are happening are not necessarily the ones that are showcased by the sponsor holding media companies. The internet with its …

The International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System
The governance of world sport
Series: Global Institutions
Jean-Loup Chappelet, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, Lausanne, Switzerland
This book provides, in a clear and readable form, an informative and fascinating account of the institutional history of the Olympics: its history, its organization and its actors.
Part of the popular Global Institutions series, this book is based on a forty year observation of the Olmpic Movement and contains information on the International Olympic Committee that has never been published before.
May 2008: 216×138: 224pp
Hb: 978-0-415-43167-5: £65.00
Pb: 978-0-415-43168-2: £14.99

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 …

Rennen, W. (2007). CityEvents: Place Selling in a Media Age. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press.
C@tO CITATION: Garcia, B. & Miah, A. (2002). “Hosting Major Events Lessons from Salt Lake 2002.” Culture @ the Olympics: Issues, Trends and Perspectives 4(1): 1-3.