MEDIA 720

The Digital SportScape

Please note: this is archived course information from 2018 for MEDIA 720.

Description

Addresses how digital delivery systems, online journalism and social media have challenged traditional top-down control or gate-keeping of mediated sport. The course explores changing practices and relations between broadcasters, digital service providers, athletes and fans to interrogate the high level of agency fans now have for creating their own identities and online communities.

Availability 2018

Not offered in 2018; planned for 2019

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Points

MEDIA 720: 30 points

Restrictions

FTVMS 720