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 and activism). I wrote this paper last year, but the session was cancelled due to financial problems, so I’ve been looking at this area for a while now. I am glad that I’ve *finally* presented this topic and I can begin to move on to other ideas more formally.
The full paper below (which will be formally published as part of the IOA’s conference proceedings) – as well as the slides and a audio recording of the presentation, synced along the slides.
Harnessing the “twitter” olympics: From #van2010 to #london2012: International Olympic Academy
Harnessing the ‘Twitter’ Olympics: From #Van2010 to #London2012 (Full paper)
September 26th, 2011at 9:58 am(#)
[...] 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 [...]
September 26th, 2011at 9:58 am(#)
[...] 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 [...]
November 21st, 2011at 12:01 pm(#)
[...] out the philosophical concept of ‘olympism’ – a way of life. When I was at the International Olympic Academy in September, I wrote about the three assumptions that were being made on my behalf, when discussing [...]
January 30th, 2012at 11:54 am(#)
[...] written quite a lot about the use of citizen media as a activism tool around the Games – and published a paper on alternatives (including critiques of those alternatives) to the mainstream medi… – this is essence of my PhD thesis, that I’m hoping to ‘give back’ to those [...]
February 8th, 2012at 12:58 pm(#)
[...] opened the event with an adapted version of the paper that I delivered at the International Olympic Academy in September, focusing on the complexity of the Olympic Games as a subject area and the tension between the [...]