Books

Social Media in Global Sport: Strategies and Practice

Emilio Fernández Peña y Andrew C. Billings (Eds.)

2025

The work offers an in-depth view of how social media have transformed the business and communication of sport worldwide.

The Symbolic Legacy of Barcelona 1992, Twenty-Five Years Later

Miquel de Moragas Spà

2017

Miquel de Moragas Spa reflects, with twenty-five years of perspective, on a singular aspect of the legacy of Barcelona ’92: its symbolic legacy—ideas, icons, contents, and states.

Olympic Games, Television and Social Media

Emilio Fernández Peña

2016

Television has turned the Olympic Games into the world’s largest sporting spectacle and represents their main source of revenue.

Olympic Idea Nowadays : perceptions and insights

Emilio Fernandez Peña, Holger Preuss and Lamartine DaCosta (orgs.); Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Xavier Ramon and Ana Miragaya (eds.)

2015

The book offers a contemporary view of the Olympic Movement and the Olympic Games, analyzing their values, challenges, and transformations in today’s context…

Olympic Mosaic: Multidisciplinary Research and Dissemination of Olympic Studies. CEO‑UAB: 20 Years

Emilio Fernández Peña; Berta Cerezuela; Miquel Gómez Benosa; Chris Kennett; Miquel de Moragas Spà

2011

Olympic Mosaic approaches Olympic studies through the richness and interconnection of the different phenomena that shape them: the media, culture, education, politics, economics, and the social sciences of sport…

Barcelona: The Legacy of the Games (1992–2002)

Miquel de Moragas; Miquel Botella (eds.)

2002

The book brings together a collection of studies and testimonies on the Barcelona ’92 Olympic Games, written ten years later, analyzing their impact, transformations, and legacy across different areas of society…

Multicultural Sport

Kim Manresa; Chris Kennett

2008

The results of the research and photojournalistic work of the project Immigration: A New Cultural Perspective on Sport were published in book format, offering a reflection on sport as a space for diversity, integration, and cultural exchange….

The Impact of the Internet on the Media and the Sports Industry

Miquel de Moragas; Chris Kennett; Ramon García Sedó;

2004

The results of a research project aimed at exploring how sports consumption through the Internet has transformed the media, business models, and the production and distribution strategies of sports content….

The Legacy of the Olympic Games 1984-2000: International Symposium Lausanne, 14th, 15th and 16th November 2002

Miquel de Moragas; Christopher Kennett; Nuria Puig (eds.)

2002

The book contains the edited proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the International Chair in Olympism (IOC‑UAB), held in November 2002 at the Olympic and Sports Museum of Barcelona, bringing together the main academic contributions and debates on Olympism and Olympic studies….

Volunteers, global society and the Olympic Movement: International Symposium Lausanne. 24th, 25th and 26th November 1999

Miquel de Moragas Spà; Nuria Puig; Ana Belen Moreno (eds.)

2000

The book brings together the papers presented at the symposium organized by the International Chair in Olympism (IOC‑UAB) and the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, held with the aim of analyzing and debating the main challenges, values, and perspectives of contemporary Olympism.

Television in the Olympic Games: the new era: International Symposium, Lausanne, 19th-20th October 1998

Miquel de Moragas Spà; Nuria Puig; Ana Belen Moreno (eds.)

1999

The book brings together the papers presented at the symposium on television and the Olympic Games, organized by the IOC Radio and Television Commission, offering an analysis of the relationship between the Olympic Games, audiovisual media, and the transformation of the sporting spectacle.

Olympic Villages: a hundred years of urban planning and shared experiences: International Symposium on Olympic Villages, Lausanne, 1996

Miquel de Moragas, Montserrat Llinés; Bruce Kidd (eds.)

1997

A book that brings together the papers and a selection of debates from the Second Symposium of the International Chair in Olympism (IOC‑UAB), offering a plural perspective on the main themes, approaches, and lines of reflection in the field of Olympic studies.

Keys to Success: Social, Sporting, Economic, and Communication Impacts of Barcelona ’92

Miquel Moragas i Spà; Miquel Botella.

1996

Barcelona is a city of sport, culture, civic values, and much more—achievements made possible thanks to the momentum generated by the 1992 Olympic Games and their capacity for urban, social, and symbolic transformation.

Television in the Olympics

Miquel de Moragas Spà; Nancy K. Rivenburgh; James F. Larson

1995

For decades, scholars have studied the Olympic Games with a focus on their history, sports, politics, cultures, and organizational aspects, in order to understand their social, symbolic, and global impact…

The Economics of the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games

Ferran Brunet

1994

The book, the result of a university research project, provides an analysis of three topics related to the economic aspects of the Barcelona Olympic Games: the financing and costs of the event, its economic impact on the city and the region, and the economic legacy generated in the medium and long term.

Olympia: Origins of the Olympic Games

Pere Villalba i Varneda

1994

This book on Olympia brings together Greco‑Roman literary sources from Classical Antiquity. Thus, Olympia and the Olympic Games are portrayed through the writings of ancient authors, offering a historical, cultural, and symbolic view of the origins of Olympism.

The Games of Communication: The Multiple Communicative Dimensions of the Olympic Games

Miquel de Moragas Spà

1992

The universal and cyclical phenomenon of the Olympic Games has, since its origins, gone beyond its primary dimension as a sporting event, becoming a complex system of communication that integrates media, narratives, symbols, global audiences, and institutional strategies…

Culture, Symbols and the Olympic Games: The Mediation of Communication

Miquel de Moragas i Spà

1992

In this book, Miquel de Moragas Spà, Professor of Communication Theory at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Director of the Olympic Studies Centre, analyzes the role of communication as a mediator in the cultural and symbolic construction of the Olympic Games, addressing its impact on identities, discourses, and representations of Olympism.

Olympic Games, media and cultural exchanges: the experience of the last four summer Olympic Games: international symposium

1992

The book compiles the papers presented at the International Symposium on the Olympic Games, Communication and Cultural Exchanges: “The Experience of the Last Four Olympic Games”, offering a comparative analysis of the communicative, cultural, and media transformations of Olympism in the contemporary context.

Sport and Media in Catalonia

Daniel E. Jones

1996

Sport and Media in Catalonia is the result of a research project carried out by a group of local scholars specialized in the analysis of the relationships between sport, the media, and Catalan society, examining their dynamics, discourses, and cultural and social impacts.