[csaa-forum] Media at Sydney, Tales of the Digital Sublime: Tracing the Relationship Between Big Data and Professional Sport, Brett Hutchins, Friday 31 October

[Cesar Albarran Torres]

Media at Sydney presents


Associate Professor Brett Hutchins


Monash University


Tales of the Digital Sublime: Tracing the Relationship Between Big Data and Professional Sport


This talk outlines the relationship between Big Data and sport. Critiquing the hype associated with Big Data, Brett Hutchins explains that modern sport informs the historical rise of this technological phenomenon, serving as a social and cultural site where the accelerating privatisation and commodification of statistics and statistical information occurs. These developments deliver increased entertainment options for fans of many professional men’s sports and an unprecedented number of performance indicators for selected coaches, athletes and pundits. However, the information technology infrastructure and resources required to generate real-time data are adding to widening inequalities between elite ‘data-rich’ sports and comparatively impoverished ‘data-poor’ sports, including many women’s competitions.  It is argued that a collective fascination with the digital sublime obscures the complex interaction between corporate power, digital data markets, history and culture, and contributes to inequalities that demand ongoing attention and critique.
Date: Friday 24th October, 2014
Time: 15:00-16:30
Location: S226 Seminar Room, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, John Woolley Building (A20)<http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?ref=d08h15> level 2, entry off Manning Road.

Please register that you will attend at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/tales-of-the-digital-sublime-tracing-the-relationship-between-big-data-and-professional-sport-tickets-12426625371

Brett Hutchins is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor in the School of Media, Film & Journalism at Monash University. His most recent articles appear in Media, Culture & Society, Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, and Journal of Sport & Social Issues. His books include the companion volumes, Sport Beyond Television: The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport (co-authored with David Rowe; Routledge 2012), and Digital Media Sport: Technology, Power and Culture in the Network Society (co-edited with David Rowe; Routledge 2013).

Other upcoming Media at Sydney events:
October 24: Renovating Media Economics: Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew: http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/renovating-media-economics-stuart-cunningham-and-terry-flew-tickets-13537951377

November 7: Fakers, trolls, 'turfers and shouty men: the dynamics of visibility and exclusion in online news commenting: Fiona Martin
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/fakers-trolls-turfers-and-shouty-men-the-dynamics-of-visibility-and-exclusion-in-online-news-tickets-13772047565

November 14: A Companion to the Australian Media: Tales from the Trenches: Bridget Griffen-Foley http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/a-companion-to-the-australian-media-tales-from-the-trenches-bridget-griffen-foley-tickets-13744713809


Media at Sydney is presented by the
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