The FC Barcelona Stadium will allocate two sessions of the IAMCR Working Group on Media and Sport and one joint session of this working group and the IAMCR Gender and Communication Section.
In total, 14 communications will be presented with participants from all over the world. The presentations will be in English.
The FC Barcelona has collaborated with the Organising Committee of Barcelona Conference and the Olympic Sport Studies Center of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in the organization of these special sessions and they would offer a free visit to the stadium and the museum of the club to those attending them.

How to participate
The capacity of the auditorium is 200 participants. The speakers and chairpersons at the sessions would have priority and they would receive an invitation directly from the Organising Committee. The heads of the Working Group on Media & Sport and the Gender & Communication Section will receive 25 invitations plus to distribute among those participants at the Conference not presenting but involved in the above mentioned working group or section.
Other people interested would be able to contact with the Secretariat at the Conference to request an invitation. If you are interested to participate, you can also send us an e-mail (cg.barcelona2002@uab.es) informing us.

How to arrive
The FC Barcelona Stadium is an easy place to arrive by public transport. The lines L3 and L5 of the underground arrive near the Stadium situated at Avenue Arístides Maillol, s/n.
A transfer bus from the Conference venue (Institut del Teatre) to the FC Barcelona Stadium will be available freely on 24th July at 11.45h.

Program

From 8.30 to 10h
Media and the Olympic Games
IAMCR Media and Sport Working Group
Chair: Christian Kaschuba

- Josep Maria Blanco Pont, The "Olympic Channel": Analysis of a complicate intercultural television sports proposal of the Games of '92

- Helen Wilson, Studying the Web: Lessons from the Sydney Olympics

- Michael Real and Diana Beeson, New Narratives in the Olympics Games
Roy Panagiotopoulou, Promoting the Athens 2004 Olympic Games: Contradictions and Continuities

From 10 to 10.30h
Coffee break

From 10.30 to 12h
Media, Soccer and Beyond
IAMCR Media and Sport Working Group
Chair: Michael Real

- Maurice Roche and Jackie Harrison, 'Cultural Europeanisation through Media-Sport regulation?' Challenges for the development and analysis of media sport in the EU

- Cornel Sandvoss, A Game of Two Halves: Television Football and Globalization

- Stefan Mertens, Soccer, mass media and intercultural communication: a research project concerning Euro 2000; case-study: representations of female soccer fans from Mediterranean cultures

- Raymond Boyle and Richard Haynes, Football, New media And Community in the Digital age

- Todd Holden, Sports Exports/Media Imports: how Japan engages a globalizing world

From 12.15 to 14h
Gender, sport and media
Joint Session Gender and Communication Section and Media & Sport
Chair: Karen Ross

- Mary McDonald, Third Wave Utopia?: Media Constructions Of U. S. Feminism In Women's Professional Basketball

- Alina Bernstein, There Is Basketball In Israel, Women's Basketball": Media Coverage Of Women's Basketball In Israel

- Linda K. Fuller, (Double+) Victimization At Play For Women Athletes

- John Vincent, Newspaper Coverage Of Female Athletes Competing In Selected Sports In The Centennial Olympic Games: The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same

14h.
Final Reception