Sport History in the Digital Era - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0252038932 ISBN 13: 9780252038938

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2015

Riassunto

From statistical databases to story archives, from fan sites to the real-time reactions of Twitter-empowered athletes, the digital communication revolution has changed the way fans relate to LeBron's latest triple double or Tom Brady's last second touchdown pass. In this volume, contributors from Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States analyze the parallel transformation in the field of sport history, showing the ways powerful digital tools raise vital philosophical, epistemological, ontological, methodological, and ethical questions for scholars and students alike.

Chapters consider how philosophical and theoretical understandings of the meaning of history influence engagement with digital history, and conceptualize the relationship between history making and the digital era. As the writers show, digital media's mostly untapped potential for studying the recent past via media like blogs, chat rooms, and gambling sites forge a symbiosis between sports and the internet while offering historians new vistas to explore and utilize. In this new era, digital history becomes a dynamic site of enquiry and discussion where scholars enter into a give-and-take with individuals and invite their audience to grapple with, rather than passively absorb, evidence.

Timely and provocative, Sport History in the Digital Era affirms how the information revolution has transformed sport and sport history--and shows the road ahead.

Contributors include Douglas Booth, Mike Cronin, Martin Johnes, Matthew Klugman, Geoffery Z. Kohe, Tara Magdalinski, Fiona McLachlan, Bob Nicholson, Rebecca Olive, Gary Osmond, Murray G. Phillips, Stephen Robertson, Synthia Sydnor, Holly Thorpe, and Wayne Wilson.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Gary Osmond is a senior lecturer in sport history at the University of Queensland. Murray G. Phillips is an associate professor in the socio-cultural aspects of sport and physical activity at the University of Queensland and editor ofDeconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern Analysis. Both are active members in the North American Society for Sport History.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0252038932
• ISBN 13: 9780252038938
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 279
• Redattore: Osmond Gary, Phillips Murray G