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In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.
Chris Terrio

Meaning of "media event" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MEDIA EVENT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MEDIA EVENT

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Media event is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MEDIA EVENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Media event

A media event is an event or activity that exists for the sole purpose of media publicity. It may also include any event that is covered in the mass media or was hosted largely with the media in mind. Media events may center around a news announcement, a corporate anniversary, a press conference in response to a major media event, or planned events like speeches or demonstrations.

Definition of media event in the English dictionary

The definition of media event in the dictionary is an event that is staged for or exploited by the mass media, whose attention lends it an apparent importance.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MEDIA EVENT

media
media circus
media group
media hype
media man
media men
media person
media star
media studies
media-shy
mediacy
mediad
mediae
mediaeval
mediaevalism
mediaevalist
mediaevalistic
mediaevally
mediagenic
medial

WORDS THAT END LIKE MEDIA EVENT

advent
circumvent
convent
event
fervent
field event
happy event
in any event
invent
liquidity event
misevent
nonevent
prevent
publicity event
reinvent
solvent
three-day event
track event
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yachting event

Synonyms and antonyms of media event in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «media event» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MEDIA EVENT

Find out the translation of media event to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of media event from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «media event» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

媒体活动
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

acontecimiento mediático
570 millions of speakers

English

media event
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मीडिया घटना
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

حدث إعلامي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

медийное событие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

evento de mídia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মিডিয়া ইভেন্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

événement médiatique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Acara media
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Medienereignis
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

メディアイベント
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

미디어 이벤트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Acara media
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự kiện truyền thông
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஊடக நிகழ்வு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

माध्यम कार्यक्रम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Medya etkinliği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

evento mediatico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wydarzeniem medialnym
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

медійне подія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

eveniment mass-media
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκδήλωση των μέσων ενημέρωσης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

media-gebeurtenis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mediahändelse
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mediebegivenhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of media event

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MEDIA EVENT»

The term «media event» is regularly used and occupies the 75.438 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MEDIA EVENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «media event» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «media event» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about media event

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2 QUOTES WITH «MEDIA EVENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word media event.
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David Frum
The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.
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Chris Terrio
In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEDIA EVENT»

Discover the use of media event in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to media event and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Titanic Legacy: Disaster As Media Event and Myth
This is the first book to deal exclusively with the influence and meaning of what media historian Paul Heyer calls our century's first collective nightmare.
Paul Heyer, 1995
2
Media Events in a Global Age
All of this shows that in order to understand the media event “German unification,” it is necessary to do more than merely describe what happened. Puh/ic and national holidays, in particular, are symhols whose meaning is the product of the  ...
Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp, Friedrich Krotz, 2009
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Crisis Communications: Lessons from September 11
14 From Disaster Marathon to Media Event: Live Television's Performance on September 1 1 , 2001 , and September 1 1 , 2002 Menahem Blondheim and Tamar Liebes Menahent Blondheim and Tamar Liebes show how television's coverage ...
A. Michael Noll, 2003
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Media Rituals: A Critical Approach
Constructing themediaisauthority The first, and most obvious, difference would be to foreground how, inthe courseof a media event (as just redefined), themyth of the mediated centre is infact reproduced. Here it is helpful to return to Merton«s ...
Nick Couldry, 2005
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100 Media Moments that Changed America
These are events that changed the way the media is used—not just as a tool for spreading knowledge, but as a way of shaping and influencing the opinions and reactions of America's citizens.
Jim Willis, 2010
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Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History
Fictionalizing the Event The thrust of media-event aesthetics is best revealed by analyzing the transformation it imposes on the familiar dramaturgy of the news broadcast. The conferral of media-event status on a given occasion consists in ...
Daniel DAYAN, Elihu Katz, Daniel Dayan, 2009
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Global Media Spectacle: News War over Hong Kong
media event may interrupt the routines of newswork and draw journalists into the whirlpool of intense competition. Live broadcasting of a big media event, such as assassination of kings and presidents, can also interrupt the flow of the public's ...
Chin-Chuan Lee, Jinquan Li, Joseph Man Chan, 2012
8
Media and Ritual: Death, Community, and Everyday Life
A media event interrupts the everyday media flow, brings the viewer via ceremonialism in touch with the community's central (sacred!) values and at the same time invites the audience to participate in the event. Dayan and Katz point out that ...
Johanna Sumiala, 2013
9
Media and Cultural Transformation in China
The 'news event' is often a 'hijacked' event, sometimes within the happenings of a media event. Unlike the media event, the news event is 'not preplanned but news -worthy' (Dayan and Katz 1992: 9). The summit meeting between Deng and ...
Haiqing Yu, 2009
10
Internationalizing Media Studies
Our first example is a research project on the Catholic World Youth Day as a media event.12 At first glance this research project seems to be 'comparative' in a traditional sense, as it investigates the media event within Germany and Italy.
Daya Kishan Thussu, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MEDIA EVENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term media event is used in the context of the following news items.
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Media picks Tigers as preseason ACC favorite
Players from ACC teams pose for a photo at the media event at ... at the conference's annual preseason media event at Pinehurst Resort. «WYFF Greenville, Jul 15»
2
Fanning, Wilson to front media over shark attack
Both are then expected to fly home to Queensland after the media event. Fanning earlier told Redbull.com he realised he needed to speak to ... «ninemsn, Jul 15»
3
Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But …
At the media event announcing the new project, he noted that human beings have a terrible history of mistreating, and even massacring, other ... «Space.com, Jul 15»
4
Chinese team in America's Cup talks
Speaking at a media event organised by British watchmakers and official timing partners Bremont and with the 'Auld Mug' on display next to ... «Royal Gazette, Jul 15»
5
Virginia's Mike London ignores 'hot seat' chatter, sets sights on trying …
"I focus my time on the positives," London said Tuesday during the final day of the Atlantic Coast Conference Kickoff media event, where U.Va. «Daily Press, Jul 15»
6
Jimbo Fisher: FSU not ignoring recent issues
Fisher spent roughly the first 20 minutes of his hour-long interview session with print reporters at the ACC media event answering questions ... «Tampabay.com, Jul 15»
7
Five Bobcats, four Grizzlies on preseason All-Big Sky team
The polls were released Tuesday at the Big Sky Kickoff media event. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own team. MSU and EWU each ... «Billings Gazette, Jul 15»
8
Advocaat relishing Toronto test
“It's an important game, with just around two weeks before the season starts,” said the Dutchman, who was speaking at a media event in the ... «Sunderland AFC, Jul 15»
9
Why did Elon Musk pass up a chance to boast about a scientific coup?
It was only six weeks later, when the company itself decided to make the Dahn hire into a media event, that it talked about him. Its share price ... «Quartz, Jul 15»
10
ACC Kickoff notes: Virginia Tech picked second in Coastal
The Tigers received 84 of 158 votes at the ACC Football Kickoff media event at Pinehurst Resort, more than twice as many as two-time ... «Fredericksburg.com, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Media event [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/media-event>. Apr 2024 ».
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