Following on from the first three blogs I believe that it will be interesting to discuss how the digital audience affects the content generated in the online environment to ensure the success of the media generated. Audiences are referred to as a collective of receivers being attentive but passive listeners/spectators in public settings (McQuail &... Continue Reading →
Audio Podcast- An Analysis of New Audiences in a Newer Sport Media Ecology
This podcast analyses and talks about the impact that digital media has had on audiences, in regards to their behaviour and how it has altered in the new sport media ecology. The podcast discusses the creation and emergence of new audiences that have come about within the sporting landscape; namely E-sports audiences and multi-channel transmedia... Continue Reading →
Video Podcast- An Analysis of the Impact Social Media has had on Sport
This podcast focuses on and discusses how social media has affected sport in both positive and negative ways. A topic of conversation within the podcast is how sports teams and organisations use social media to improve their fan engagement. Furthermore, how athletes use their social media for their own personal benefit is talked about within... Continue Reading →
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
An analysis of Rugby Unions fan cultures, and the convergence of culture which will lead to an analysis of trans-media storytelling.
Currently, there is a passing over of old media to new media where users are more interactive with and have the power to produce media content (Jenkins, 2006). Media convergence alludes to the continual flow of content from a media organisation across all platforms, and as consumers are no longer passive, and have became prosumers... Continue Reading →
How new sport consumption trends saw the emergence of GolfTV
Within the podcast below, I discussed how advancements in digital technology has begun to shift our sport consumption patterns, and how this has resulted in an abundance of online streaming platforms to emerge within sport, paying particular focus on the Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming platform GolfTV. https://youtu.be/vf734y6uFmk ★★
Media and Digital Transformation in Sport 