Science, Technology and Sport - II: Sporting Bodies and Technologies

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

• Exertion and Escaping the Holiday Rationale: A Study of Long Term Cyclists - Pedro Ferreira, IT University of Copenhagen

• Fledgling Data Science: A Study of the Freelance Football Analytics Community - Gian Marco Campagnolo, University of Edinburgh

• Raising the Boom: Constitutive Rules and Traumatic Brain Injuries in the NFL through Biomedicalization - Declan James Abernethy, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Race, Football, Trauma: Arguments for and Against the Preservation of American Football - Jennifer Croissant, University Of Arizona

Session Organizers

• Jennifer Sterling, University of Iowa

• Mary McDonald, Georgia Institute of Technology