My favourite quote โ wellโฆ I don't remember it, but Iโm sure I have one. I'm an ardent fan of football; football in India to be particular. I've been working in the Indian footballing circuit for the last two years whilst doing my undergrad in Journalism and Mass Communication (BA). I started off as a... Continue Reading →
Meet the Team – Sparsh Yadav
Welcome to My WordPress account and Blog! Hi readers! My name is Sparsh Yadav and I'm 26 years old . I come from New Delhi, India and have an undergraduate degree in Engineering, majoring in Computer Science. I'm currently pursuing my Masters in Sports Business Management from Leeds Beckett University. I've been passionate about a lot... Continue Reading →
Do football fans like VAR?
Digital transformation has impacted football not only via platforms, but also on-pitch with the introduction of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR). A study analysing over 300,000 comments left on FIFA's official YouTube videos revealed that about 60% of fans disliked VAR. Fans typically associated VAR with three negative aspects: favouring bigger nations, non-neutrality of technology, and destruction of traditional football. They perceived VAR as another tool used in modern football's commercialisation and mediatisation.
Audio Podcast – An Analysis of Gambling and Gamification.๏ฟผ
This podcast talks about the analysis of gambling (gamblification) and gamification with links into the football industry. The podcast discusses digital integration and how it has made the consumption of digital games ever more gamified. This podcast also examines the how bookmakers benefit due to live sporting events occurring and the development of the new... Continue Reading →
Video Podcast – New Digital Media and Gender Inequality in Sport.
This podcast, focuses on and discusses new digital media and gender inequality in sport. A topic of conversation within the podcast discusses how the history of gender inequality has developed, and how sports organisations have utilised social media to increase consumer engagement. https://youtu.be/CUFC2kd5I-o Hope you enjoy and thanks for watching!
The Effect eSports on the Sporting Industry in particular the Football Industry during the Pandemic.
My recent blog posts have covered the digital disruption in the football industry and the digital revolution in sports media ecology in women's football. In continuation of this, this blog is going to analyse the effect of eSports on the football industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. eSports is set to become one of the fastest... Continue Reading →
The Affect Digital Disruption has upon Football and its media ecology
In our first blog within this series of four, we saw how sport media ecology coincided with womenโs football and how hegemonic masculinity is viewed within this sport. This is extremely pervasive, especially when consumers want all content available 24/7 which is found to be easily accessible (Delfanti & Arvidsson, 2019). The decisions being made... Continue Reading →
Has the Rise of New Media in Football caused the decline of the Television?
This will be our final blog in the series of sport media ecology where throughout this serieswe have aimed to provide an insight to the coverage of sport ecology through the hindsightof football, with finer details into women's football. Within this final blog, we will befocusing on the rise of social media as a medium... Continue Reading →
Digital Revolution in the history of Sport Media Ecology in Womenโs Football.๏ฟผ
The Digital Revolution of Media and Ecology in the 21st century through the development of recent technology, has increased the ability to portray the transformation and relationships between Women's Football and Digital Revolution over the last 20 years. The relationship between media and sport has historically been linked to the popularisation of television as a... Continue Reading →
Has Instagram created the Fake Footballer?
From a very static internet showing one-way communication in web 1.0, towards web 2.0 that encourages complex networking, interaction, the main characteristics of social media include; framework for participation, content agnostic, community features (Lingren, 2021). The creation of social profiles has aided the rapid rise of Instagram in a sporting sense, football clubs can now... Continue Reading →
Media and Digital Transformation in Sport 