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.
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