Re Thinking Leisure In A Digital Age

Author : Michael Silk,Brad Millington,Emma Rich,Anthony Bush
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429833571

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Re-thinking Leisure in a Digital Age by Michael Silk,Brad Millington,Emma Rich,Anthony Bush Pdf

Digital worlds and cultures—social media, web 2.0, youtube, wearable technologies, health and fitness apps—dominate, if not order, our everyday lives. We are no longer ‘just’ consumers or readers of digital culture but active producers through facebook, twitter, Instagram, youtube and other emerging technologies. This book is predicated on the assumption that out understanding of our everyday lives should be informed by what is taking place in and through emerging technologies given these (virtual) environments provide a crucial context where traditional, categorical assumptions about the body, identity and leisure may be contested. Far from being ‘virtual’, the body is constituted within and through emerging technologies in material ways. Recent ‘moral panics’ over the role of digital cultures in teen suicide, digital drinking games, an endless array of homoerotic images of young bodies being linked with steroid use, disordered eating and body dissatisfaction, facebook games/fundraising campaigns (e.g. for breast cancer), movements devoted to exposing ‘everyday sexism’ / metoo, twitter abuse (of feminists, of athletes, of racist nature to name but a few), speak to the need for critical engagement with digital cultures. While some of the earlier techno-utopian visions offered the promise of digitality to give rise to participatory, user generator collaborations, within this book we provide critical engagement with digital technologies and what this means for our understandings of leisure cultures. The chapters originally published in a special issue in Leisure Studies.

Author : Sandro Carnicelli,David McGillivray,Gayle McPherson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317355618

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Digital Leisure Cultures by Sandro Carnicelli,David McGillivray,Gayle McPherson Pdf

The digital turn in leisure has opened up a vast array of new opportunities to play, learn, participate and be entertained – opportunities that have transformed what we recognise as leisure. This edited collection provides a significant contribution to our changing understanding of digital leisure cultures, reflecting on the socio-historical context within which the digital age emerged, while engaging with new debates about the evolving and controversial role of digital platforms in contemporary leisure cultures. This book also demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature of studying digital leisure cultures. To make sense of how individuals and institutions use digital spaces it is necessary to draw on history, science and technology, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology and geography, as well as sport and leisure studies. This important and timely study discusses both the promise of the digital sphere as a realm of liberation, and the darker side of the internet associated with control, surveillance, exclusion and dehumanisation. Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical perspectives is fascinating reading for any student or scholar of sociology, sport and leisure studies, geography or media studies.

Author : Helen Beetham,Rhona Sharpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134132485

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Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age by Helen Beetham,Rhona Sharpe Pdf

Packed full with case studies from multi disciplines and with a helpful appendix of tools and resources, this book is an essential guide to effective design and implementation of sound e-learning activities.

Author : Rhona Sharpe,Helen Beetham,Sara de Freitas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136973871

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Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age by Rhona Sharpe,Helen Beetham,Sara de Freitas Pdf

Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age addresses the complex and diverse experiences of learners in a world embedded with digital technologies. The text combines first-hand accounts from learners with extensive research and analysis, including a developmental model for effective e-learning, and a wide range of strategies that digitally-connected learners are using to fit learning into their lives. A companion to Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age (2007), this book focuses on how learners’ experiences of learning are changing and raises important challenges to the educational status quo. Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age: moves beyond stereotypes of the "net generation" to explore the diversity of e-learning experiences today analyses learners' experiences holistically, across the many technologies and learning opportunities they encounter reveals digital-age learners as creative actors and networkers in their own right, who make strategic choices about their use of digital applications and learning approaches. Today’s learners are active participants in their learning experiences and are shaping their own educational environments. Professors, learning practitioners, researchers, and policy-makers will find Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age invaluable for understanding the learning experience, and shaping their own responses.

Author : Fiona English,Tim Marr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350272187

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Why Do Linguistics? by Fiona English,Tim Marr Pdf

What do we need to know about language and why do we need to know it? Providing the essential tools with which to analyse and talk about language, this book demonstrates the relevance of linguistics to our understanding of the world around us. This second edition includes: - Discussion of key areas of contemporary interest, such as neo-pronouns, translanguaging, and communication in the digital arena -Two brand new chapters exploring language and identity, and language and social media - A range of new and international examples - New and updated references and suggested readings - Tasks to aid learning at the end of each chapter - A glossary of key terms. Introducing a set of practical tools for language analysis and using numerous examples of authentic communicative activity, such as overheard conversations, social media posts, advertisements and public announcements, Why Do Linguistics? explores language and language use from a social, intercultural and multilingual perspective, showing how this kind of analysis works and what it can tell us about social interaction. Also accompanied by a new companion website featuring audio, video and other supportive resources for students and teachers, this book will help you to become an informed, active noticer of language.

Author : Maggi Savin-Baden,Heather Fraser
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000959895

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Rethinking Problem-based Learning for the Digital Age by Maggi Savin-Baden,Heather Fraser Pdf

Rethinking Problem-based Learning for the Digital Age provides grounded, evidence-based strategies for teaching faculty, academic developers and educational technologists who are changing their problem-based learning (PBL) modules and programmes from face-to-face to online. Given today’s rapid advancements in learning and curriculum development specific to online and blended modes, there is considerable potential to introduce new forms of PBL in higher education. This book applies fundamental and cutting-edge research, including original scholarship by the authors, to innovative PBL practices and realistic tasks that can be brought to life through digital environments, teamwork and resources. Whether re-contextualizing PBL practices for newly online/blended instruction or seeking fresh PBL approaches for existing digital education environments across disciplines, readers will be guided to construct active, highly motivating, learner-centred experiences using simulations, games, virtual reality, multimedia and other complex innovations.

Author : Mark Anthony Camilleri
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781804558904

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Tourism Planning and Destination Marketing by Mark Anthony Camilleri Pdf

Authored by more than 20 leading academics and providing in-depth coverage of a wide array of economic, social, technological and environmental realities in tourism planning and development, this volume is the latest in the field of tourism, theory and practice.

Author : Mark Turner,Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781040028254

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Social Control and Disorder in Football by Mark Turner,Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen Pdf

This is the first book to focus on the interrelated issues of social control and disorder in football. It shows how the ‘beautiful game’ illuminates our understanding of the mechanisms and techniques of social control and regulation in contemporary societies. It explores past, new, and continued responses from law enforcers, football associations, sport’s governing bodies, the media, and international organizations to issues of disorder and misbehaviour in football, and how this is highly contested by fans and fan groups. Featuring the work of an international team of leading researchers in football and sport-related studies, the book examines key contemporary trends and topics including fan activism, football-specific legislation, power, violence, fan rivalries, subcultures, the policing of crowds, social sorting, and surveillance. Featuring diverse international cases, including the Qatar World Cup, stadium protests in Portland, Oregon, spectator violence in Polish football, social media and Brazilian football, and sectarianism in Scottish football, the book also looks ahead to what the future holds for the world’s most popular sport. This is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, or the general reader with an interest in the sociology of sport, criminology, sport management, and sports law.

Author : Anne Tjønndal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9783030637651

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Social Innovation in Sport by Anne Tjønndal Pdf

This book provides fresh insights on how social innovations are utilized as strategies to make sport more accessible and inclusive. It does so by bringing together theoretical insights and empirical studies from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the United States, Australia, Turkey and Belgium. Within the overarching topic of social innovation in sport, this book covers contemporary themes such as digitalization, urban planning, gender equality and innovation in sport policy and practice. It will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of sociology of sport, sport management, sport science and sociology.

Author : Samantha Holland,Karl Spracklen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787565135

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Subcultures, Bodies and Spaces by Samantha Holland,Karl Spracklen Pdf

This edited collection provides sociological and cultural research that expands our understanding of the alternative, liminal or transgressive; theorizing the status of the alternative in contemporary culture and society.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789231000881

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Rethinking education: towards a global common good? by UNESCO Pdf

Economic growth and the creation of wealth have cut global poverty rates, yet vulnerability, inequality, exclusion and violence have escalated within and across societies throughout the world. Unsustainable patterns of economic production and consumption promote global warming, environmental degradation and an upsurge in natural disasters. Moreover, while we have strengthened international human rights frameworks over the past several decades, implementing and protecting these norms remains a challenge.These changes signal the emergence of a new global context for learning that has vital implications for education. Rethinking the purpose of education and the organization of learning has never been more urgent. This book is inspired by a humanistic vision of education and development, based on respect for life and human dignity, equal rights, social justice, cultural diversity, international solidarity and shared responsibility for a sustainable future. It proposes that we consider education and knowledge as global common goods, in order to reconcile the purpose and organization of education as a collective societal endeavour in a complex world.

Author : Liam French
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527563889

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Rethinking Media Studies and the Digital Revolution by Liam French Pdf

This book offers an important reconsideration of teaching, learning and research in media studies, and provides an overview of some of the key issues, controversies and debates in the field. It argues that, in spite of critical interventions from scholars working both within and outside of media studies, many academics have been slow to respond to the ongoing shifts and transformations in digital media in terms of curriculum design and course content. The book critically engages with and reassesses issues and debates in teaching and learning in the field of media studies in light of wide-scale shifts incurred by digital media, and asks “is media studies still relevant as a subject in its current form?” This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies, media education, cultural studies and popular culture.

Author : Luciana Lazzeretti,Stefania Oliva,Niccolò Innocenti,Francesco Capone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000852554

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Rethinking Culture and Creativity in the Digital Transformation by Luciana Lazzeretti,Stefania Oliva,Niccolò Innocenti,Francesco Capone Pdf

This book discusses the role of digital technologies in the growth and development of cultural organizations and the creative sector. It includes contributions by authoritative scholars who address this topic through different perspectives, methodologies and approaches. The first part of the volume focusses on theoretical contributions that identify the main transformations caused by the digital revolution, the use of data, outlining new possible analytic frameworks and future lines of research. The second part of the volume presents empirical contributions applied to different fields in the study of the cultural and creative sectors. These range from analyses of traditional cultural organizations such as museums, the evolution of trajectories in the fashion industry, techno-creative communities, digital services for tourism, to cultural and creative industries and wealth and creative work. This edited volume will be of great value to scholars in the fields of Economics and Management including Economic Geography and Economic Development. Students and researchers interested in learning more about new technologies and their impact on cultural and creative sectors will also benefit from this book. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.

Author : Solfrid Bratland-Sanda,Richard Giulianotti,Tommy Langseth,Eva Maria Støa,Simon Rosenbaum
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889712755

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Sports and Active Living during the Covid-19 Pandemic by Solfrid Bratland-Sanda,Richard Giulianotti,Tommy Langseth,Eva Maria Støa,Simon Rosenbaum Pdf

Author : Devin Penner
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774860536

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Rethinking the Spectacle by Devin Penner Pdf

Spectacle is usually considered a superficial form of politics, which tries to distract and deceive a passive audience. It is difficult to see how this type of politics could be reconciled with the democratic requirement of active and informed agency. Rethinking the Spectacle re-examines the tension between spectacle and political agency using the ideas and practices of Guy Debord and the Situationist International as a point of departure. Drawing on radical democratic theory and examining case studies such as the 2011 Occupy movement, Devin Penner concludes that spectacle can and should be used to mobilize the public for egalitarian purposes.