Authors
Maria de Lourdes Lima dos Santos (global coord.), António Firmino da Costa (global coord.), Rui Telmo Gomes, Vanda Lourenço, Teresa Duarte Martinho, José Soares Neves and Idalina Conde
Title
Impactos Culturais da Expo'98 [Cultural Impacts of Expo'98]
Publication Date: September 1999 - Language: Portuguese
ISBN: 972-8488-08-4 - Legal Deposit: 140396/99
N. of Pages: 286 - N. of Copies: 1500
Type of Cover: Paperback - Format: 14,5x20,9 - Price: 13,00 €
Abstract:
What was the
cultural impact of Expo'98 - Lisbon World Exhibition 1998? This study aims
to provide a contribution to the debate on the cultural impact of Expo’98
through an analysis of media coverage - in particular press clippings - of
the event.
As a unique event, the World Exhibition produced a complex series of effects
including widespread festivities, re-contextualisation and intensification
of interaction between different social groups and a rare form of civic
attention on spaces designed for collective use.
The present work focuses on the main cultural aspects of Expo'98 together
with an overview of the cultural events and dynamics that were originated by
the Exhibition.
Alongside this study of the mega cultural event of Expo'98, a series of
contributions have been prepared to provide a future sociological model for
the analysis of large-scale contemporary events in general.