Olympic education and the need to protect critique: Guest Post for @Podiumfor2012
Taken at the International Olympic Academy, Ancient Olympia Last week I was asked to write a guest blog post for Podium. Podium are the official link between the London 2012 Olympic Games and higher and further education institutions – and encourage and promote the Olympic movement through education. I was asked to write about my experience/thoughts on the International Olympic Academy (where I have been for the month of September), an often under looked, but critically important part of the modern Olympic movement. An extract from the post is below, the full article is available here. “To those outside of the Olympic studies field, the notion …
New publication: Encyclopedia of Social Networks
An entry on virtual worlds that I co-authored with my PhD supervisor Andy Miah for a Sage Reference book on social networking has now been published. At £225, I’m not sure if I’ll ever get to see it in ‘the flesh’ but at least it is in there. Reference: Jones, J. & Miah, A. (2011) Virtual Worlds, in Barnett, G. Encyclopedia of Social Networks, SAGE. Full Article is available here (ssht)!
Presentation at the International Olympic Academy: Harnessing the Twitter Olympics
If you’ve been following on twitter, you’ll know that I’ve been studying at the postgraduate session at the International Olympic Academy in Greece (near Ancient Olympia) since the start of September. Each week is based on a core set of themes (ancient history, sports management and sociology etc), with rotating visiting professors from differing background and related participant presentations (that were used to apply for the academy). This week, during philosophy and ethics week, I delivered my own paper on the twitter olympics, looking at the use of new media from Vancouver to London (but touching more on protest, resistance …