FTVMS 720

Special Topic: The Digital SportScape


Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for FTVMS 720.

Description

Addresses how digital delivery systems, online journalism and social media have challenged traditional top-down control or gate-keeping of mediated sport. The course explores changing practices and relations between broadcasters, digital service providers, athletes and fans to interrogate the high level of agency fans now have for creating their own identities and online communities.

Availability 2017

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Dr Margaret Henley

Reading/Texts


Recommended Reading


Points

FTVMS 720: 30 points