Over the past month or so, in my new role as editorial assistant and web editor, I’ve been busy working on the relaunch of the website of Culture @ the Olympics, a non-profit, annual academic review magazine which focuses on the cultural, media, social and political of the Olympic movement. The previous site featured over 10 years of academic commentary, and with a bit of tinkering and wordpress magic, the site is now prepared for the up and coming Vancouver Olympics.

I know I’ve already mentioned here (in brief) that I will there, joining a team of ten people from C@tO which include Andy Miah, Beatriz Garcia, Ana Adi, Kris Krug and Danielle Sipple, to cover all thing social, cultural and political about the Games in Vancouver. We will be be working out of four media centres (a mix of non-accredited and social media orientated) in Vancouver – British Columbia Media House, Whistler Media House, the W2 Centre and the True North Media House.

I’m the first to arrive from the UK, flying out on Monday the 1st, and hoping to work towards collecting preliminary data for my PhD research, whilst getting a taste of the Vancouver social media scene (is there a better word for that?) and, in particular, how it is embracing the Olympics on its backdoor (take note London!)

We will also be presenting a paper at the International Sports Business Symposium on the 19th at the University of British Columbia.

Miah, A., Jones, J. & Adi, A. (GBR): The Olympic Games and Web 3.0: Monetizing the Olympic Movement’s Digital Assets

More details are available here.

On the 22nd of February, we’ll be working with W2 to help run a series of debates and the Fresh Media conference. The focus for this conference will be to discuss how the media is changing and bringing about change via new, social and traditional forms of journalism.

More details are available here.

And of course, as mentioned in my previous post, my colleague Ana and myself will be sharing our own thoughts and media content on posterous during the course of the trip (like a digital scrapbook, if you must).

Phew, that’s one hell of a lot of ampin’ going on there.