.... It proposes a “conference power” framework for exploring these professional events as platforms where capital accumulates and influence proliferates. Design/methodology/approach The data were publicly available speaker lists from the Global Investigative Journalism Conference: the world's largest...

... to explore how communist power influenced and controlled the visual narrative in the athletes’ parades. Findings The analysis reveals that the core ideas within the communist sports discourse were simple, repetitive and universal. Key concepts such as mass participation in sports, Olympic sports...