Dr. Bianca Mitu is Senior Lecturer in Broadcasting and Journalism at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Before this, she held a Lecturer position at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She is a former journalist and holds a Ph.D. in Media and Communication Studies. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Westminster and the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her research interests lie in television studies, internet studies and media sociology. Bianca has an outstanding international scientific background, and has published in international journals from the UK, Italy, Germany and the USA. She is the Head of [...] Research Centre, an active member of important international scientific associations, including IAMCR, ECREA, MeCCSA, and an active editorial board member of Journal of Journalism and Mass Communication, Interpersona, and International Journal of Communication and Health.

Dr. Stamatis Poulakidakos is a Lecturer in Digital Marketing Communications at the University of Bournemouth, UK. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, University of Athens, Greece where he accomplished his PhD on propaganda and the presentation of the MoU for the Greek bailout by the Greek media. He also holds a Master's Degree in New Media, Information and Society from the London School of Economics. He has taken part in various research activities in Mass Media and has participated as speaker in Greek and international conferences.

PART I: OVERVIEW
1. Introduction: Media Events - a never ending story; Bianca Mitu and Stamatis Poulakidakos
PART II: DISRUPTIVE MEDIA EVENTS
2. Media events in the aftermath of terror: Exploring how reporting templates produce social drama; Julian Matthews
3. Tahrir 2011: Contested Dynamics of a Global Media Event; Johanna Sumiala and Lilly Korpiola
4. International broadcasting and the conflict-related national media events: The framing of EuroMaidan by the BBC and RT; Galina Miazhevich
5. The coverage of opposing events: Brazilian's sporting mega-events preparation and the host community civil protests; Sónia Pedro Sebastião, Ana Isabel Lemos and Isabel Soares
6. Crashing a National Media Event. Circulation of Social Imaginaries in the Gatecrashers Riots in Finland; Taneli Heikka, Turo Uskali and Katja Valaskivi
PART III: CEREMONIAL MEDIA EVENTS
7. The Mental Mapping of Europe - Do Transnational Media Events matter?; Dennis Lichtenstein
[...]oelections as European media event; Mariaeugenia Parito
9. The aftermath of a media event. A decade of journalistic ambivalence on the Olympic heritage of the 2004 Olympic Games of Athens; Stamatis Poulakidakos
10. Surpassing the media event - the FA Cup 4th Round in the UK; Andrew Fox
PART IV: MEDIA EVENTS IN THE DIGITAL ERA
11. Transmedia events: media coverage of global transactional repertoires of collective action; Lázaro M. Bacallao-Pino
[...]oMaidan: Mediated Protests,Rituals and Nation-in-the-Making; Dariya Orlova
13. Web 2.0 Media Events: Barack Obama's Inauguration (2009); Bianca Mitu
14. Mobile Media Events: Social Cohesion through an IM App; Xi Cui