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Author |
: Jennifer J. Sterling |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2019-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789813291270 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9813291273 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sports, Society, and Technology by : Jennifer J. Sterling
Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production addresses the complex entanglements of science, technology, and sporting cultures. The collection explores themes around human and non-human actants, knowledge formations and processes, and the materiality and multiplicity of bodies through an engagement with the interdisciplinary fields of Sport Studies and Science and Technology Studies. Representing a range of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary approaches, contributors interrogate the social, cultural, political, and historical intersections of an ever-expanding techno-scientific sporting landscape – from true bounce and brain trauma to exercise physiology, metrics, and esports, and from feminist technoscience, whey protein, and epigenetics to sickle cell screening and testosterone regulation.
Author |
: Brett Hutchins |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2013-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134107940 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134107943 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Digital Media Sport by : Brett Hutchins
Live broadband streaming of the 2008 Beijing Olympics accounted for 2,200 of the estimated 3,600 total hours shown by the American NBC-Universal networks. At the 2012 London Olympics, unprecedented multi-platforming embraced online, mobile devices, game consoles and broadcast television, with the BBC providing 2,500 hours of live coverage, including every competitive event, much in high definition and some in 3D. The BBC also had 12 million requests for video on mobile phones and 9.2 million browsers on its mobile Olympics website and app. This pattern will only intensify at future sport mega events like the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics, both of which will take place in Brazil. Increasingly, when people talk of the screen that delivers footage of their favorite professional sport, they are describing desktop, laptop, and tablet computer screens as well as television and mobile handsets. Digital Media Sport analyzes the intersecting issues of technological change, market power, and cultural practices that shape the contemporary global sports media landscape. The complexity of these related issues demands an interdisciplinary approach that is adopted here in a series of thematically-organized essays by international scholars working in media studies, Internet studies, sociology, cultural studies, and sport studies. .
Author |
: Vanessa Ratten |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 2019-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319750460 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319750461 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sports Technology and Innovation by : Vanessa Ratten
The aim of this book is to focus on the role of sports technology and the way that the innovation process is managed. This will help understand how technology is developed and integrated into the sports context. This is important particularly due to rapid technological advancements developed in sport being applied to other industries. The book will focus on the different types of sports technology from increment to radical innovations, including looking at product, process, and service innovations. It will be one of the first books to specifically focus on sports technology and innovation. It will be useful to innovation management researchers, enthusiasts and sports practitioners interested in how to compete based on technological advancements.
Author |
: Barrie Houlihan |
Publisher |
: SAGE |
Total Pages |
: 731 |
Release |
: 2007-12-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781446236994 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1446236994 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sport and Society by : Barrie Houlihan
Praise for the First Edition: "Barrie Houlihan's astonishingly ambitious and skilfully assembled collection examines the relations between sport, social policy and the social context that underlies the two. Organized around such themes as exclusion, commercialism and international comparisons, the book allows the reader to understand not only the centrality of sport to contemporary society, but the often perplexing policies that contrive to encourage or deny participation, promote or deter public sector involvement and support or undermine physical education. Importantly, Houlihan never prioritises the general over the particular, always striving to find detail amid the bigger picture." - Ellis Cashmore, Professor of Culture, Media and Sport, Staffordshire University "The most comprehensive study of contemporary issues in sport by leading international scholars. Houlihan's book is the answer to sports students' prayers, full of information, statistics, tables and figures, extensive guides to further reading and, most important of all, challenging ideas. A weighty vademecum for the early 21st century." - Jim Riordan Honorary Professor of Sports Studies, University of Stirling, Professor Emeritus at University of Surrey, and President of the European Sports History Association Fully updated and revised, the Second Edition of Barrie Houlihan's ground-breaking book provides students and lecturers with a one-stop text that is comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, accessible, international and engaging. Sport and Society allows students to: Approach the study of sport from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Understand the importance of social structure, power and inequality in analyzing the nature and significance of sport in society. Address the rapid commercialization and regulation of sport. Engage in comparative analysis to understand problems clearly and produce sound solutions. Expand their knowledge through chapter summaries, guides to further reading and extensive bibliographies. This Second Edition contains five brand new chapters, which reflect recent concerns with: young athletes and human rights, sport and the city, sport and violence, sport and health, and sport and Islam. A superb teaching text, it will be relished by lecturers seeking an authoritative introduction to sport and society and students who want a relevant, enriching text for their learning and research needs.
Author |
: Deborah G. Johnson |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 853 |
Release |
: 2008-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262303385 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262303388 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Technology and Society by : Deborah G. Johnson
An anthology of writings by thinkers ranging from Freeman Dyson to Bruno Latour that focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values and how these may affect the future. Technological change does not happen in a vacuum; decisions about which technologies to develop, fund, market, and use engage ideas about values as well as calculations of costs and benefits. This anthology focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values. It offers writings by authorities as varied as Freeman Dyson, Laurence Lessig, Bruno Latour, and Judy Wajcman that will introduce readers to recent thinking about technology and provide them with conceptual tools, a theoretical framework, and knowledge to help understand how technology shapes society and how society shapes technology. It offers readers a new perspective on such current issues as globalization, the balance between security and privacy, environmental justice, and poverty in the developing world. The careful ordering of the selections and the editors' introductions give Technology and Society a coherence and flow that is unusual in anthologies. The book is suitable for use in undergraduate courses in STS and other disciplines. The selections begin with predictions of the future that range from forecasts of technological utopia to cautionary tales. These are followed by writings that explore the complexity of sociotechnical systems, presenting a picture of how technology and society work in step, shaping and being shaped by one another. Finally, the book goes back to considerations of the future, discussing twenty-first-century challenges that include nanotechnology, the role of citizens in technological decisions, and the technologies of human enhancement.
Author |
: Jimmy Sanderson |
Publisher |
: Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2022-04-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781800716834 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1800716834 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sport, Social Media, and Digital Technology by : Jimmy Sanderson
This volume brings together a collection of essays from leading global scholars working in diverse areas as sport sociology, sport management, sport media, and sport communication to illustrate how sociological approaches are imperative to enhancing our understanding of sport and social media and digital technology.
Author |
: Rudi Volti |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2005-06-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0716787326 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780716787327 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Society and Technological Change by : Rudi Volti
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the interactions of society and technology. The new fifth edition includes coverage of such timely topics as cloning, stem-cell research, genetically modified foods, terrorism, intellectual property, and the global impact of the internet.
Author |
: Brad Millington |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 156 |
Release |
: 2020-02-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0367406233 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780367406233 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fitness, Technology and Society by : Brad Millington
The fitness industry is experiencing a new boom characterized by the proliferation of interactive and customizable technology, from exercise-themed video games to smartphone apps to wearable fitness trackers. This new technology presents the possibility of boundless self-tracking, generating highly personalized data for self-assessment and for sharing among friends. While this may be beneficial - for example, in encouraging physical activity - the new fitness boom also raises important questions about the very nature of our relationship with technology. This is the first book to examine these questions through a critical scholarly lens. Addressing key themes such as consumer experience, gamification, and surveillance, Fitness, Technology and Society argues that fitness technologies - by 'datafying' the body and daily experience - are turning fitness into a constant pursuit. The book explores the origins of contemporary fitness technologies, considers their implications for consumers, producers, and for society in general, and reflects on what they suggest about the future of fitness experience. Casting new light on theories of technology and the body, this is fascinating reading for all those interested in physical cultural studies, technology, and the sociology of sport.
Author |
: Daniel Lee Kleiman |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2009-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781405148191 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1405148195 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science and Technology in Society by : Daniel Lee Kleiman
This thoughtful and engaging text challenges the widely held notion of science as somehow outside of society, and the idea that technology proceeds automatically down a singular and inevitable path. Through specific case studies involving contemporary debates, this book shows that science and technology are fundamentally part of society and are shaped by it. Draws on concepts from political sociology, organizational analysis, and contemporary social theory. Avoids dense theoretical debate. Includes case studies and concluding chapter summaries for students and scholars.
Author |
: Andrew Ede |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2019-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108425605 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108425607 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Technology and Society by : Andrew Ede
Celebrates the creativity of humanity by examining the history of technology as a strategy to solve real-world problems.