Fantasy Sports and Gambling in Sport

Sports Media, Marketing, and Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5475-2.ch005 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 82-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Amber A. Ditizio

Keyword(s):

Communication Technologies ◽

The Self ◽

Fantasy Sports ◽

Sports Media ◽

Personal Involvement ◽

Traditional Research ◽

The Media ◽

Media Research ◽

The Spectator ◽

Traditional Roles

Modern sports/media complex may be the result of complex inactions of communication technologies, social developments, and the increased sophistication of businesses in understanding the intrinsic and extrinsic aspects of consumer behavior. From the promotion options of print media, television and radio, to the self-engaging aspects of Internet sport coverage and gaming, the spectator is rapidly becoming an integral part of the branding process. Media, especially fantasy sports, has transcended the traditional roles of television's function as agents of exposure to engagement and personal involvement in athletic contest and its merchandising. Although the media aspect may been neglected in sports research, media research traditionally has considered sports too popular for traditional research. This paper explores some of the major topics for research that combines sports and newer forms of media exploitation for marketing purposes.

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Fantasy Sports and Gambling in Sport

Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations ◽

10.4018/jeco.2016100104 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 52-65 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Amber A. Ditizio

Keyword(s):

Communication Technologies ◽

The Self ◽

Fantasy Sports ◽

Sports Media ◽

Personal Involvement ◽

Traditional Research ◽

The Media ◽

Media Research ◽

The Spectator ◽

Traditional Roles

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Is the Internet Mightier than the Sword

Global Strategy and Practice of E-Governance ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-489-9.ch019 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 338-354 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Russell Lidman

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Empirical Work ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

The Internet ◽

The Social ◽

The Press ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The Media ◽

Traditional Roles ◽

Recent Insight

This paper considers how to reduce corruption and improve governance, with particular attention to the impacts of information and communication technology. The media and the press in particular have played an important role in opposing corruption. The Internet and related tools are both supplementing and supplanting the traditional roles of the press in opposing corruption. A regression model with a sample of 164 countries demonstrates that, controlling for the independent variables commonly employed in empirical work on corruption, greater access to the Internet explains reduced corruption. The effect is statistically significant albeit modest. It is possible that the social media will have a growing impact on reducing corruption and improving governance. A number of examples of current uses of these media are provided. Recent insight and experience suggest how the newer information and communication technologies are somewhat tipping the balance toward those opposing corruption.

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Biological Fandom

Communication & Sport ◽

10.1177/2167479515592134 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 49-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Munene F. Mwaniki

Keyword(s):

Sports Medicine ◽

Mobile Technologies ◽

Biological Knowledge ◽

Fantasy Sports ◽

Ethical Problems ◽

Sports Media ◽

Sport Fans ◽

The Media ◽

The Individual ◽

Relations Of Power

In the last few decades, our exposure to sport has increased dramatically through advancements in television, Internet, and mobile technologies. This rise in exposure and accessibility has increased biological knowledge among sport “fans,” a concept I use broadly, and complicated our relationship with sport. Using Rose’s notion of biological citizenship, which draws on Foucault’s concepts of biopolitics and biopower, I introduce “biological fandom” as a way to think about the intensification of bioknowledge in and around sport. As a problem space where various relationships of power intersect, biofandom creates new forms of knowledge, surveillance, and ethical problems. In this article, I sketch the relations of power that create biological fandom. First, I focus on aspects of the media that are concerned with quantifying the bodies of athletes and new biomedical treatments in sports medicine. Second, within this larger media context, I proceed to explore what I see as a particularly concentrated manifestation of biofandom, fantasy sports. Using examples from fantasy sports media, I argue that biological fandom perpetuates neoliberal norms that encourage self-work and individualism among “biofans,” while also fetishizing the individual athlete and creating undifferentiated athletic masses.

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Women Wheelchair Athletes: Competing against Media Stereotypes

Disability Studies Quarterly ◽

10.18061/dsq.v29i2.920 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Jean Ann Hargreaves ◽

Brent Hardin

Keyword(s):

Print Media ◽

Font Size ◽

Individuals With Disabilities ◽

Web Based ◽

Sports Media ◽

Wheelchair Athletes ◽

Sport Media ◽

The Media ◽

Media Research ◽

Data Collections

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">This study explored the attitudes and perceptions of 10 women wheelchair athletes about sports media by soliciting their opinions and concerns using both mainstream and disability print and web-based sport media. Using the "auto drive" technique for qualitative data collections, the analysis revealed three themes: (a) the participants were consumers of both mainstream and disability print media; (b) they were tired of the media stereotypes; (c) they believed that the media is partially responsible for the lack of coverage of women and individuals with disabilities in sports media as a whole. Within each of these three themes, several sub-themes emerged. Although this study was limited to female wheelchair athletes analyzing web-based and print media, the themes can provide a basis for the analysis and future study in the rising area of sports media research as it relates to females and individuals with disabilities.</span>

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Sentimental Conviction: Rousseau’s Apologia and the Impartial Spectator

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422857.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Adam Schoene

Keyword(s):

The Self ◽

Careful Study ◽

Moral Sentiments ◽

Impartial Spectator ◽

Direct Discourse ◽

Rhetorical Device ◽

The Spectator ◽

Theory Of Moral Sentiments

Where Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) extends the domain of spectatorship beyond the ocular realm and claims that we must become the impartial spectators of our own character and conduct, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques, Dialogues (1776) also attempts to probe beyond the visual surface to examine through careful study the constitution of another, who is actually himself. This chapter traces a Smithian sentiment in the radical division of the self dramatized in Rousseau’s fictional autobiographical Dialogues, emphasizing Rousseau’s attempt to liberate his own gaze and render an unbiased judgment upon himself. Although Rousseau does not write in direct discourse with Smith, he applies a strikingly similar rhetorical device to the spectator within the dialogic structure of his apologia. Reading Rousseau alongside Smith resituates the Dialogues not as a work of madness, as it has frequently been interpreted, but rather as an unrelenting struggle for justice.

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Cartesian Fingerprints in Beckett's Imagination Dead Imagine

Journal of Beckett Studies ◽

10.3366/jobs.2012.0047 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 223-243

Author(s):

Irit Degani-Raz

Keyword(s):

The Self ◽

Levels Of Abstraction ◽

The Media ◽

The Mind ◽

Limiting Case

The idea that Beckett investigates in his works the limits of the media he uses has been widely discussed. In this article I examine the fiction Imagination Dead Imagine as a limiting case in Beckett's exploration of limits at large and the limits of the media he uses in particular. Imagination Dead Imagine is shown to be the self-reflexive act of an artist who imaginatively explores the limits of that ultimate medium – the artist's imagination itself. My central aim is to show that various types of structural homologies (at several levels of abstraction) can be discerned between this poetic exploration of the limits of imagination and Cartesian thought. The homologies indicated here transcend what might be termed as ‘Cartesian typical topics’ (such as the mind-body dualism, the cogito, rationalism versus empiricism, etc.). The most important homologies that are indicated here are those existing between the role of imagination in Descartes' thought - an issue that until only a few decades ago was quite neglected, even by Cartesian scholars - and Beckett's perception of imagination. I suggest the use of these homologies as a tool for tracing possible sources of inspiration for Beckett's Imagination Dead Imagine.

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O romance de Ricardo Lísias: janelas escancaradas para o sujeito hipermoderno

Letras de Hoje ◽

10.15448/1984-7726.2016.4.23691 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 51 (4) ◽

pp. 491

Author(s):

Ana Cláudia Munari ◽

Taíssi Alessandra Cardoso da Silva

Keyword(s):

Media Studies ◽

Contemporary Literature ◽

The Self ◽

Police Chief ◽

The Novel ◽

The Media ◽

The Subject ◽

Media Narratives ◽

Self Reference ◽

Critical Production

A partir da análise dos romances de Ricardo Lísias e da sua produção autocrítica, este trabalho busca entender algumas relações entre a literatura de autoficção e a publicização do sujeito autor imerso no universo midiático. Partindo de uma revisão bibliográfica que conceitua os objetos aqui circunscritos e de uma apreciação anterior sobre a produção literária de jovens escritores brasileiros selecionados pela revista Granta em 2012, estreitamos nossa focalização no movimento do romancista em direção à escrita de si e à autorreferência. Nesse sentido, analisamos e contextualizamos a modalidade de escritura denominada autoficção, especialmente no que tange às aproximações entre as instâncias do narrador e do autor e entre biografemas e ficção (FIGUEIREDO, 2013; KLINGER, 2012), e evocamos estudos da Sociologia e da Comunicação de modo a caracterizar a sociedade da qual emerge o corpus deste estudo (LIPOVESTKY, 2004; SANTAELLA, 2012). A partir desse contexto, investigamos as obras literárias – O céu dos suicidas (2012), Divórcio (2013) e Delegado Tobias (2014) – e as narrativas midiáticas de Ricardo Lísias e identificamos nelas estratégias da publicidade.********************************************************************The novel by Ricardo Lísias: wide open windows to the subject hypermodernAbstract: Through the analysis of the novels of Ricardo Lísias and its self-critical production, this work intends to understand some relationships between the self-fiction literature and the popularization of the subject author immersed in the media universe. Starting from a literature review that conceptualizes the objects herein bounded and an earlier assessment of the literary production of young Brazilian writers selected by Granta magazine in 2012, we strengthened ur focus on the novelist's movement toward the writing itself nd self-reference. Pursuing this aim, we analyzed and contextualized the form of writing named autofiction, especially with regard to the similarities between instances of the narrator and the author and between biographema and fiction (FIGUEIREDO, 2013; KLINGER, 2012). We also evoked Sociology and Media Studies to characterize the society of which emerges the corpus of this study (LIPOVESTKY, 2004; SANTAELLA, 2012). From these premises, we investigated the literary works – Céu dos suicidas (Heaven suicide, 2012), Divórcio (Divorce, 2013) and Delegado Tobias (Tobias, the police chief, 2014) – and the media narratives of Ricardo Lísias and finally we identified his advertising strategies.Keywords: Self-ficction; Contemporary literature; Hypermodernity; Ricardo Lísias

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Media-Bodies: Choreography as Intermedial Thinking Through in the Work of William Forsythe

Dance Research Journal ◽

10.1017/s0149767700000838 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 61-72 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Sabine Huschka

Keyword(s):

Installation Art ◽

Art Practice ◽

Public Performance ◽

Open Spaces ◽

Movement Perception ◽

Movement Performance ◽

Interactive Relationship ◽

The Media ◽

The Spectator

Since Ballet Frankfurt was reconstituted as the Forsythe Company in 2004, William Forsythe has increasingly explored formats of installation art practice. Works such as Human Writes (in collaboration with Kendall Thomas, 2005) and You made me a monster (2005) develop within an interactive and intermedial space and experiment with new ways to experience the production and perception of movement. “Performance installation” is the new term for this intertwined process of movement production and movement perception. The choreographic composition itself grows out of procedures of performative sensing by the dancers, which spreads to onlookers. This multiplex awareness of movement for which the dancer's body is the medium constitutes what I shall call the “media-body” as an essential moment of performance installation as choreographic event. Compared to earlier Forsythe installations—which he called “choreographic objects”—like White Bouncy Castle (1997), City of Abstracts (2000), or Scattered Crowd (2002), with their accessible spaces of movement (in White Bouncy Castle the spectator was a visitor moving about freely inside a white inflatable castle, and City of Abstracts featured choreographic projections of movement on large screens in open spaces) performance installations take place squarely in the theatrical context: in theater lobbies, exhibit halls, or accessible public performance spaces where dancers and the audience come together in a mutually shared yet operationally divided space that leads them into an interactive relationship.

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EASY DATA, USUAL SUSPECTS, SAME OLD PLACES? A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES IN DIGITAL ACTIVISM RESEARCH BETWEEN 1995-2019

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research ◽

10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11298 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Suay Melisa Ozkula ◽

Paul Reilly ◽

Jennifer Hayes

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Digital Activism ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Online Platforms ◽

Traditional Research ◽

Digital Methods ◽

Media Research ◽

Social Media Research ◽

Methodological Approaches ◽

The Arab Spring

Burgess and Bruns (2015) have linked the computational turn in social media research to a rise in studies that focus exclusively on ‘easy’ data, such as the ‘low hanging fruit’ provided by Twitter hashtags. This paper set out to explore whether this preponderance of easy data and studies focused on the 2011-12 protests is evident in research between 1995 and 2019 through a systematic review of digital activism literature (N = 1444). A particular focus of the review was the extent to which digital activism research revolved around the use of computational digital methods, case studies based in Europe and North America and data gathered from single online platforms (e.g. Twitter). The review showed that most of these studies focused on social movements, campaigns, activists, and parties based in the United Kingdom and United States, and were conducted by researchers based in universities in these countries. In contrast, there were relatively few articles addressing activism, institutions and platforms in non-Western /Global South contexts with the exception of the Arab Spring in 2011. In terms of methodological approaches, traditional research methods and big data digital methods studies were prevalent. In response to the easy data hypothesis, the study found that Twitter was the most researched platform in the corpus, but that digital methods were not as commonly deployed in these articles as traditional methods. Thus, the paper concludes argues in favor of greater diversity in digital activism research in terms of its methods, participants, and countries of origin.

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Arab Women and the Media

Al-Raida Journal ◽

10.32380/alrj.v0i0.594 ◽

1970 ◽

pp. 10

Author(s):

Samira Aghacy

Keyword(s):

Arab Women ◽

Contemporary Society ◽

Sexual Roles ◽

The Media ◽

Women's Role ◽

Traditional Roles ◽

Images Of Women

Despite changes emerging in contemporary society regarding women's role and contributions, the images of women represented in the media have not reflected these changes sufficiently enough. Women have generally been presented within the restrictive mold of domesticity and subservience reinforcing traditional roles andbehaviors where a woman is defined in relation to men who see her within the framework of marital, maternal and sexual roles.

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