September | 2016 | David McGillivray

Platform politics: sport events and the affordances of digital and social media

Over the least few years I’ve been exploring the growing role of digital and social media in the mediatisation of major sporting events. I’ve published a number of articles related to this thread of work, including The Olympic Torch Relay: Activating citizen-consumer discourses (2013) Digital cultures, acceleration and mega sporting event narratives (2013), and Young people, digital media…

Digital Leisure Cultures: Now published!

It’s taken two years of blood, sweat and tears, but I’m delighted that the book Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical Perspectives that I’ve co-edited with my colleagues, Gayle McPherson and Sandro Carnicelli, has finally been published by Routledge. This text emerged out of the extremely successful Leisure Studies Association annual conference held at University of the West…

Critical Event Studies: Some Reflections

On Friday I had the pleasure of inhabiting Manchester’s Northern Quarter for the inaugural Making Events Critical symposium at the MadLab. The event was the culmination of a year or two’s worth of conversations amongst those of us that want to introduce more ‘criticality’ into the study of events and associated processes. Adopting an ‘open space’ approach…