Tag: digital revolution

Digital Consumption of the Paralympic Games on YouTube: Unveiling the New Sport/Media Landscape on a Platform Logic

The digital revolution, particularly through YouTube, has modified the way Paralympic Games are consumed. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) leverages YouTube to reach larger, diverse audiences, functioning both as an alternative and addition to traditional TV. The IPC must master this new media landscape, balancing content creation and audience engagement within the algorithm-based system, to ensure fair visibility for all athletes and disciplines. Peak content production and viewership typically align with major events like the Paralympic Games.

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An Analysis of Digital Disruption in Sport

Traditionally, broadcasting scarcity within media meant that whoever controlled the distribution of media possessed all the power (Hutchins & Rowe, 2012). The digital revolution has the potential to disrupt and significantly alter the sport media industry and its discrete separate markets (Hutchins & Rowe, 2009). This is evidenced by digital media lowering entry barriers, which... Continue Reading →

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Audio Podcast: Analysis of Participatory Culture in Cricket in India

In this podcast I have discussed and given a brief idea about the participatory culture in cricket in India with different media which helps sports to affect the society and culture. https://youtu.be/XUiThohYBMk Audio Podcasts on Cricket and Participatory Culture

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Digital Revolution? Persisting Gender Inequalities in Digital Sports Broadcasting: The case of FIFA TV on YouTube

A research comparing men's and women's FIFA World Cup videos on YouTube found that while men's videos have more views and engagement, women's videos received more likes per view, showing signs of favorable engagement. These findings suggest that the digital revolution has not fully disrupted gender inequalities in sports media, but there are hopeful indicators of an increasingly equitable consumption of content.

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What is the future of sport and media?

Trying to correctly predict the future of sport and media might be a daunting affair as the pace of technological disruptions and transformations rising from the digital revolution appears to be ever increasing. For instance, taking Nicholas Negroponte's famous analysis on Being Digital - a work written in the mid-90s just before the dot-com bubble... Continue Reading →

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Have Social Media Disrupted Football Consumption?

While researching to write a chapter on digital and social media disruptions on the consumption of football for an upcoming book on The Business of FIFA I went about collecting data from a particular social media platform - YouTube - to discuss the possible transformations that the so-called digital revolution has caused on sport. For... Continue Reading →

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Digital Disruption and the European Super League in Football

Sunday night was unveiled that twelve powerful football clubs across Europe – six of them from the English Premier League {Liverpool; Manchester City…Digital Disruption and the European Super League in Football

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Is digital media the future? An Analysis of the Future of Media Ecology in Sport

The sixth, and final, blog of this series features an exclusive podcast, in which the future of sport media will be discussed.

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An analysis of Digital Disruption and how this has influenced the Golf industry

In our first blog within this series, we identified how past media ecology attached itself sport, specifically golf, and the implications these mediums had on the development of the sport and how this aided in the promotion of hegemonic masculinity. Our next blog then looked into the present media ecology in sport and how the... Continue Reading →

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The Digital Revolution: Is it a Disruption or an Augmentation of the Sports Industry?

The fourth blog of this series investigates the damage of the digital revolution on the sports industry, however it will highlight all the positives as to why we're moving in that direction.

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