Science, Technology and Sport I

Session Submission Type: Traditional (Closed) Panel

Abstract

While sport studies scholars have established sport as a key site of cultural meanings and social relations, fewer scholars have engaged these issues within technology and science studies frameworks. This panel invites papers broadly concerned with social and cultural inquiry into the intersection of science, technology, and sport. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: sport technologies and technologies of the active body; issues related to medicine, risk and sport; performance enhancement and bioethics; (dis)ability, gender, race, class, and sexuality, technology and sport; sporting labs and scientific practices; representations of science and sport; sport analytics, data visualization, and the quantified self; professional gaming and eSports; and, infrastructure, sustainability, and sport.

Sub Unit

• 4S Annual Meeting

Chair

• Jennifer Sterling, University of Iowa

Individual Presentations

• Examining Sports, Science, and Technology Studies - Jennifer Sterling, University of Iowa; Mary McDonald, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Race, Science, and the Sporting Bodies: The Scientific Construction of “Asian Physical Inferiority” - Yu-Kuei Sun, Towson University

• The Building Bureau of the National Jewish Welfare Board, Gender Integration at Jewish Ys, and Reforming Athletic Spaces - Linda J Borish, Western Michigan University

• Engineered Athletics: Cold War Science, Technological Consciousness, and Sport in East Germany - Mario Bianchini, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Techno-Physical Feminism: Surveillance, Wearable Technology, & Shifting Risk Paradigms - Renee Shelby, Georgia Institute of Technology