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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463628603321

Titolo

Sport history in the digital era / / edited by Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-252-09689-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

796

Soggetti

Sports - History

Sports - Archival resources - Digitization

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The bones of digital history / Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips -- Part 1. Digital history and the archive. The library's role in developing web-based sport history resources / Wayne Wilson -- Sport history and digital archives in practice / Martin Johnes and Bob Nicholson -- Part 2. Digital history as archive. @www.olympic.org.nz: organizational websites, e-spaces, and sport history / Geoffery Z. Kohe -- "Dear collective brain . . .": social media as a research tool in sport history / Mike Cronin -- Into the digital era: sport history, teaching and learning, and Web 2.0 / Tara Magdalinski -- "Get excited people!": Online fansites and the circulation of the past in the preseason hopes of sports followers / Matthew Klugman -- Interactivity, blogs, and the ethics of doing sport history / Rebecca Olive -- Death, mourning, and cultural memory on the internet: the virtual memorialization of fallen sports heroes / Holly Thorpe -- Part 3. Digital history is history. On the nature of sport: a treatise in light of universality and digital culture / Synthia Sydnor -- Who's afraid of the internet? Swimming in an infinite archive / Fiona McLachlan and Douglas Booth -- Digital history flexes its muscle / Murray G. Phillips and Gary Osmond.

Sommario/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 sporting events. In this volume, contributors from Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, and the US analyse 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.