Overview

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.

Full Product Details

9780252038938

Table of Contents

Reviews

The stimulating ideas presented make this essential reading for all those interested in how sports history will fare in the digital age. The contributors, some cautious, others more polemic, discuss the limits and possibilities of digitized knowledge and assess the challenges and opportunities offered by digital technology. --Wray Vamplew, co-author of Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol

Those who are interested in sport history will appreciate this resource on using the Internet in their work. Highly recommended. -- Choice

Each essay is thought-provoking and grounded with examples or connections to sport history that challenge us to consider the utility of digital technologies-and our relationship to them-moving forward. . . . Osmond and Phillips show a keen awareness of the major developments, debates, and conversations in the digital humanities and offer an important book that will serve as an accessible conversation starter for historians of sport. --Sport in American History Provides a thoughtful exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of online sport history, which is especially valuable for those reluctant to embrace the digital age. --New Media & Society Those who are interested in sport history will appreciate this resource on using the Internet in their work. Highly recommended. --Choice This book sets out to make history safe for the Internet age that has been thrust upon us ready or not in this century... Sport historians, sports studies and sociology of sport scholars, and digital humanities scholars will all find useful ideas for their research and their efforts in the classroom in the volume's ten chapters. --ARETE This book should interest anyone who does research into sports history or who teaches a graduate-level class on doing research, especially archival work. --Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly Sport History in the Digital Era offers a well-timed overview of the ways that sport historians can work in this milieu. --Sport History Review

"""Each essay is thought-provoking and grounded with examples or connections to sport history that challenge us to consider the utility of digital technologies—and our relationship to them—moving forward. . . .  Osmond and Phillips show a keen awareness of the major developments, debates, and conversations in the digital humanities and offer an important book that will serve as an accessible conversation starter for historians of sport.""--Sport in American History   ""Those who are interested in sport history will appreciate this resource on using the Internet in their work. Highly recommended.""--Choice ""This book should interest anyone who does research into sports history or who teaches a graduate-level class on doing research, especially archival work.""--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly  "

Each essay is thought-provoking and grounded with examples or connections to sport history that challenge us to consider the utility of digital technologies-and our relationship to them-moving forward... Osmond and Phillips show a keen awareness of the major developments, debates, and conversations in the digital humanities and offer an important book that will serve as an accessible conversation starter for historians of sport. --Sport in American History The stimulating ideas presented make this essential reading for all those interested in how sports history will fare in the digital age. The contributors, some cautious, others more polemic, discuss the limits and possibilities of digitized knowledge and assess the challenges and opportunities offered by digital technology. --Wray Vamplew, co-author of Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol Those who are interested in sport history will appreciate this resource on using the Internet in their work. Highly recommended. --Choice This book sets out to make history safe for the Internet age that has been thrust upon us ready or not in this century... Sport historians, sports studies and sociology of sport scholars, and digital humanities scholars will all find useful ideas for their research and their efforts in the classroom in the volume's ten chapters. --ARETE This book should interest anyone who does research into sports history or who teaches a graduate-level class on doing research, especially archival work. --Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Author Information

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 of Deconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern Analysis. Both are active members in the North American Society for Sport History.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available