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Sport 2.0 : transforming sports for a digital world / Andy Miah.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miah, Andy, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Technological innovations.
- Sports.
- Performance technology.
- Mass media and sports.
- Social media.
- Communication in sports--Technological innovations.
- Communication in sports.
- Sports spectators--Effect of technological innovations on.
- Sports spectators.
- Olympics--History--21st century.
- Olympics.
- History.
- Technological innovations.
- Physical Description:
- x, 274 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Andy Miah examines the convergence of sports and digital cultures, examining not only how it affects our participation in sport but also how it changes our experience of life online. This convergence redefines how we think of about our bodies, the social function of sports, and the kinds of people who are playing. Miah describes a world in which the rise of competitive computer game playing--e-sports--challenges and invigorates the social mandate. Miah also looks at the Olympic Games as an exemplar of digital innovation in sports, and offers a detailed look at the social media footprint of the 2012 London Games, discussing how organizers, sponsors, media, and activists responded to the world's largest media event. In the end, Miah does not argue that physical activity will cease to be central to sports, or that digital corporeality will replace the nondigital version. Rather, he provides a road map for how sports will become mixed-reality experiences and abandon the duality of physical and digital.
- Contents:
- Games based culture
- Real world games
- The digital ecology of elite sports
- The serious gamer as elite athlete
- Digital spectators in augmented realities
- Media change at the Olympic games
- The new Olympic media
- Social media and the Olympics
- The London 2012 social media impact
- Citizen journalism and mobile media
- Conclusion : mixed reality and the wearable media generation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Todd and Elizabeth Donovan Endowed Fund For Television and Broadcast Media.
- ISBN:
- 9780262035477
- 0262035472
- OCLC:
- 953363223
- Publisher Number:
- 99978964637
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