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Indiana University Opening Ceremony and Soft Power for Olympic Games Discussion

 

Read and watch the required materials listed above carefully and answer following questions in your reflection paper. 

Questions:

  1. Briefly summarize the significance of the opening ceremony of Olympic Games. How have event organizers utilized the opening ceremony? 
  2. Present your understanding on the concept of soft power. How does Arning use this concept to explain the impact of opening ceremony? 
  3. Which of the Olympic Games studied by Arning exude most appealing soft power to you? Explain the strategy and provide your understanding on how well the transmitted message has been received in the rest of the world and, if applicable, identify the factors that prevented attaining long-term impact of such message. 
  4. Look at the Appendix: Soft power context and signs deployed. How you would identify the soft power context of the upcoming Olympic Games (choose one of the four: Tokyo 2021, Beijing 2022, Paris 2024, or 2028 LA). Reflecting on the past use of signs, how would you reinforce the soft power context through what kind of signs? 

Hi again thanks for picking my paper here are the links that you need to use for the paper.

IOC (2016): Olympic Opening Ceremonies: A Journey through Time (4:27)Links to an external site.

IOC (2018): The Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic GamesLinks to an external site.

Vox (2016): Why Olympic Opening Ceremonies Keep Getting Better

Arning (2013): Soft Power, Ideology and Symbiotic Manipulation in Summer Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies: A Semiotic Analysis