The Media Sport Podcast Series features interviews with leading international researchers about urgent social, cultural, economic and political issues.
Canadian researcher, activist and athlete Danielle Peers speaks via Skype about the Paralympics, disability sport, critical disability studies, and crip and queer theory. In a discussion that ranges far and wide, we speak about ableism, art, and the politics of Paralympic disability classification systems.
Colin Agur (@colinagur) from Yale University speaks via Skype about the relationship between mobile phones, second order networks, gambling and cricket in India. We also discuss the unanticipated outcomes of mobile network development, The Great Indian Phone Book, and the Delhi rape case.
This episode presents a special hour-long chat with one of the world's preeminent figures in the study of sport and media. In a wide-ranging discussion, David Rowe offers his insights into the state-of-the-field, his intellectual development during the Thatcher era, Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics, the sociology of sport, technophilia, and the continuing significance of the media sport cultural complex.
Ana Vimieiro (anavimieiro.com/) discusses far-reaching transformations in Brazilian professional football and fan media practices. Issues covered include the 2014 FIFA World Cup, politics, television coverage, female fandom, and the excitement of Inferno Alvinegro!
Sport historians Murray Phillips and Gary Osmond from the University of Queensland join me for the final episode of 2015. Our three way chat examines their new book, Sport History in the Digital Era, the impact of the digital humanities, the changing character of teaching, the uses of geo-mapping software, and Wikipedia.
Steve Redhead from Charles Sturt University joins me to discuss his latest book, Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life. In a wide-ranging chat, we speak about his career, the politics of popular culture, the post-GFC cultural condition, football hooliganism, and the rise of physical cultural studies.
Kirsten Frandsen from the Department of Media and Journalism Studies at Aarhus University discusses media and sport in Denmark and Scandinavia. Topics covered include the study of mediatisation, public service media, and the challenges of conducting bilingual research.
In this episode we hear from another new voice in media sport research. PhD researcher and professional sports journalist, Norman Li, speaks about the state of sports media, journalism and social media in China. We also cover the FIFA Women's World Cup, the Chinese newspaper market, nationalism, and the Asian Games.
Two leading international figures in mobile media and communications studies, Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth, discuss the state of the field, Asian media cultures, mobile gaming and e-sports. Attention also turns to disability, the Paralympics and Oscar Pistorius.
In this episode we hear from a new voice in media sport research. Speaking via Skype, Portia Vann from the Social Media Research Group at the Queensland University of Technology discusses Twitter, the 2015 Asian Cup, and netball in Australia and New Zealand. We also chat about social media teams for major events, multilingual social networking, and software-assisted analysis.
