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L’Eurovision et les frontières culturelles de l’Europe
Cybergeo, 2007 The Eurovision song contest pretends to be the oldest demonstration of european cultural unity, celebrating in 2005 its 50 years. Far from being only a kitsch show, the european song contest ask a certain amount of questions about the cultural frontiers ...
Fabien Venon
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Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas AplicadasIn recent years, the opinion that the Eurovision Song Contest has become highly politicised is prevalent in the media and the popular voice, although not much research exists that can attest to this claim.
María García-Gámez +1 more
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‘All Kinds of Everything’? Queer Visibility in Online and Offline Eurovision Fandom
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 2018 The annual televisual spectacle, the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is an international media event that is a nexus around which questions surrounding identity surface. This paper focuses specifically on the contest’s active promotion of queer visibility,
Jamie Halliwell
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The Football Effect: Comparing European Identity Between Fans and Non‐Fans
Contemporary European Politics, Volume 2, Issue 3-4, August-December 2024.ABSTRACT The formation of European identities is a pivotal issue for the cohesion of the European community in times of multiple crises. Based on theories of identity formation through habitualisation, we posit that football fandom—a ubiquitous, emotional, strongly Europeanised activity in everyday life—holds unique potential for fostering a sense of a
Tobias Finger +8 more
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The reaction to Conchita Wurst’s victory at Eurovision highlights the polarisation over LGBTI rights across Europe [PDF]
, 2014 The Eurovision Song Contest, held on 10 May, generated controversy in some countries in Europe over the victory of Austrian singer Conchita Wurst. Roch Dunin-Wąsowicz writes on the political dimension to the contest and the wider issues of lesbian, gay ...
Dunin-Wąsowicz, Roch
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English in Dutch‐speaking Europe: Features, competence, domains and status
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 284-300, June 2024.Abstract After a description of the area in Europe where Dutch is an official language, the historical developments are discussed that resulted in differences between the Netherlands and Dutch‐speaking Belgium (Flanders) in attitude towards Dutch and foreign languages.
Marinel Gerritsen
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VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, 2012 The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) offers a unique viewpoint to the ways Europe has been imagined on television from the 1950s to the present.
Pajala, Mari
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Liminal (trans)formative spaces: A temporary escape from intersectionality
Journal of Consumer Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 126-145, Spring 2024.Abstract This paper is an examination of identity narratives of a small group of trans‐national transpeople in Australia. We reveal the complex identity journey undertaken by this group. Transpeople of Sub‐continental origin consume a temporarily transformational journey negotiating, resisting and subverting the dominant discourses that construct ...
Teresa Davis, Gary Paramanathan
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Communication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2020 Multicamera television production’s similarity to the video clip has become evident in the production of the EBU’s Eurovision Song Contest, where various musical numbers representing public television stations from the organizing countries compete ...
José-Patricio Pérez-Rufí +1 more
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Comparison of Eurovision Song Contest simulation with actual results reveals shifting patterns of collusive voting alliances. [PDF]
, 2006 The voting patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest have attracted attention from various researchers, spawning a small cross-disciplinary field of what might be called 'eurovisiopsephology' incorporating insights from politics, sociology and computer ...
Gatherer, D.
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