Tag: Olympic Games

The IOC Olympic Studies Centre is the world source of reference for Olympic knowledge. OSC is dedicated to sharing this knowledge with professionals and researchers through providing information, giving access to our unique collections, enabling research and stimulating intellectual exchange.

The IOC Olympic Studies Centre is the world source of reference for Olympic knowledge. OSC is dedicated to sharing this knowledge with professionals and researchers through providing information, giving access to our unique collections, enabling research and stimulating intellectual exchange.

Dear All, We are pleased to send you enclosed the 26th issue of the IOC Olympic Studies Centre Newsletter.   OSC Newsletter n°26 – September 2014 We hope it will meet your interest. Best regards, Nuria Puig Head of University Relations Olympic Studies Centre

The International Journal of the History of Sport is an international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. Special Issue Swedish Olympics of 1912

Dear All, We are pleased to send you enclosed the 24th issue of the IOC Olympic Studies Centre Newsletter.   OSC Newsletter n°24 - March 2014 We hope it will meet your interest. Best regards, Nuria Puig Head of University Relations Olympic Studies Centre

The Olympic Studies Centre at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (CEO-UAB) has just launched a MOOC Course (Massive Open Online Course) on the Olympic Games and the Media in the Coursera platform, the most important platform of open online courses in the world, coinciding with the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. The Olympic Games and the Media is a 5-week...

International Journal of Sport  Management and Marketing. Special Issue on: “Marketing of Olympic Sport via New Media” Guest Editors Andrea N. Eagleman, Massey University, New Zealand Lauren M. Burch, Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus, USA New media is defined as internet-based non-traditional media platforms such as websites, social networking sites and applications, blogs and e-commerce systems (Stoldt, Dittmore, & Pedersen, 2011). In recent years, new media’s presence...

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics in the modern world and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. Special Issue: The Olympic Games: Meeting New Global Challenges

To celebrate the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia, we are offering free access to selected articles and a 20% discount on related Routledge books! This campaign spotlights aspects specific to the Winter Games, such as sustainability and climate change, in addition to the usual focuses of Olympic and Paralympic research such as volunteering, tourism, impact, legacy,and the planning and bidding process. Explore the collection for free until the end...

Re-Imagining (the) Olympics Tuesday 2nd September 2014 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom The Olympic and Paralympic Games are a globalised phenomenon. The Games are a multi-billion dollar industry, a mega event, a showcase for professionalism and internationalisation; yet, also, these events have changed significantly from the origins of the modern Olympic movement in the nineteenth century, in which ideologies of amateurism, nationalism...