Full Description
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 sports fans relate to their favorite teams. 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 the philosophical and theoretical understanding of the meaning of history influence a willingness to engage 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 blogs, chat rooms, gambling sites, and the like forge a symbiosis between sports and the internet, and offer historians new vistas to explore and utilize.
Sport History in the Digital Era also shows how the best digital history goes beyond a static cache of curated documents. Instead, it becomes a truly public history that serves as a dynamic site of enquiry and discussion. In such places, scholars enter into a give-and-take with individuals while inviting the audience to grapple with, rather than passively absorb, the evidence being offered.
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.
Contents
UntitledTitleContentsForeword Stephen RobertsonAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Bones of Digital History Gary Osmond and Murray G. PhillipsPart 1: Digital History and the Archive1. The Library's Role in Devloping Web-Based Sport History Resources Wayne Wilson2. Sport History and Digital Archives in Practice Martin Johnes and Bob NicholsonPart II: Digital History as Archive3. @www.olympic.org.nz: Organizational Websites, E-Spaces, and Sport History Geoffery Z. Kohe4. "Dear Collective Brain. . .": Social Media as a Research TOol in Sport History Mike Cronin5. Into the Digitial Era: Sport History, Teaching and Learning, and Web 2.0 Tara Magdalinski6. "Get excited people!": Online Fansites and the Circulation of the Past in the Preseason Hopes of7. Interactivity, Blogs, and the Ethics of Doing Sport History Rebecca Olive8. Death, Mourning, and Cultural Memory on the Internet: The Virtual Memorialization of Fallen SportPart III: Digital History is History9. On the Nature of Sport: A Treatise in Light of Universality and Digital Culture Synthia Sydnor10. Who's Afraid of the Internet?: Swimming in an Infinite Archive Fiona McLachlan and Douglas BooConclusion: Digital History Flexxes its Muscle Murray G. Phillips andContributorsIndex
