Past relationships between the media and sport have founded today’s interpretation of different broadcasted sports. Luhmann, (2000, p1) stated “whatever we know about our society or indeed about the world in which we live, we know through mass media”. Mass media can be credited to reaching a mass audience through a different degree of formats.... Continue Reading →
The first function of media was to build a sense of nation, with the second function being to entertain readers, thus helping the media attract advertisers (Rowe, 2004;2013). During this initial period of media, newspapers and other print media were the main forms of mass media. Overtime, media outlets began looking for cheap entertaining content,... Continue Reading →
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
Before we can analyse the past media ecology within golf, we first must understand what is media ecology? The term was first proposed by Marshall McLuhan in 1964, with Postman affirming that media ecology is "the study of media as environments". These 'environments' have the ability to affect and influence the people who use them.... Continue Reading →
/chatbubbles-internet-communication-technology-triangular-node-pattern-background-1007274860-5c0023124cedfd0026731a9f.jpg?resize=600%2C9999&ssl=1 "An analysis of Present Media Ecology within the sport of Golf")
In my previous blog post, we identified what media ecology is, and the impact it has on the people who operate within these 'environments'. More specifically, the blog delved into the realm of sport and how the mass media and sport formed a symbiotic relationship over time and the impact this had on sport; specifically... Continue Reading →
As I have argued in the Project page (see here) sport might be considered as the most serious of our mundane passions; so, how this unimportant pastime of the masses became so important to many of us to a point where during its absence in the course of the current Covid-19 pandemic we might have... Continue Reading →
Media and Digital Transformation in Sport 