Science, Technology and Sport - I: Sporting Technologies and Narratives

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.

Individual Presentations

• A Technology to Fix Football, and Beyond? Issue Mapping "VAR" on Twitter during the WC2018 - Carlos Frederico de Brito dAndréa, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG); Leonardo José de Lima Melgaço, Federal University of Minas Gerais

• Making Your Bed and Lying in It: Smart Beds, Sleep Technologies, and the National Football League - Sarah Barnes, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Protect Our House: “Smart Security” and the 2019 Super Bowl - Mary McDonald, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sarah Barnes, Georgia Institute of Technology; Nassim Parvin, Georgia Institute of Technology; Renee Shelby, Georgia Institute of Technology; Pragati Singh, Georgia Institution of Technology

• Vulcanized Play: Three Stories of Dunlop - Carlin Wing, Scripps College

• Xs and Os and 0s and 1s: Sport’s Algorithmic Culture - Jennifer Sterling, University of Iowa

Session Organizers

• Jennifer Sterling, University of Iowa

• Mary McDonald, Georgia Institute of Technology