How Long to Read Host Cities and the Olympics

How Long Does it Take to Read Host Cities and the Olympics?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 17 minutes to read Host Cities and the Olympics by Harry Hiller

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through the event itself. Traditional Olympic studies have tended to examine the Games from an outsider's perspective or as something experienced through the print media or television. In contrast, the focus presented here is on the dynamics within the host city understood as a community of interacting individuals who encounter the Games in a variety of ways through support, opposition, or even indifference but who have a profound influence on the outcome of the Games as actors and players in the Olympics as a drama. Adopting a symbolic interactionist approach, the book offers a new interpretive model through which to understand the Olympic Games by exploring the relationship between the Games and residents of the host city. Key analytical concepts such as framing, dramaturgy, the public realm, and the symbolic field are introduced and illustrated through empirical research from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, and it is shown how the social media and shifts in public opinion reflected interaction effects within the city. By filling a clear lacuna in the Olympic Studies canon, this book is important reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport, urban studies, event studies or urban sociology.

How long is Host Cities and the Olympics?

Host Cities and the Olympics by Harry Hiller is 194 pages long, and a total of 49,276 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 60% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Host Cities and the Olympics Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 29 minutes to read Host Cities and the Olympics aloud.

What Reading Level is Host Cities and the Olympics?

Host Cities and the Olympics is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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