Crowd Responsibility:
Time, Endurance, and Spectatorship in Participatory Culture
Organizer and Moderator: Craig Smith, University of Florida (c.smith@ufl.edu)
Nov. 4-6, 2010
San Diego, USA
This conference session and live, visual presentation event considers audience participation in live sporting events (i.e., organized, collegelevel sports or simultaneous displays of multiple events in one venue as is the case in athletics, swimming, gymnastics, equestrian trials, chess tournaments or high-school wrestling).
The session will focus on multiple ‘forms’ of audience participation and spectatorship as ‘usertechnology’ relations for social interactivity and most specifically those conducted through technological systems (Bijker, 1997).
Audience participation in the time and space of a sports event will be considered for its affective capacities and integration into the manner and results of the events. Presentations will establish distinct theoretical positions for: (a) the reification of passive, beholden viewing at live sports events; (b) physical engagement and technologically mediated interactivity for spectators; and/or (c) technologies of immersion and interactivity for contemporary sports venues and installations of art exhibitions.
Participants Include:
Craig Smith (University of Florida)
Goetz Bachmann (University of London) and Rufus Weston (BBC, UK)
Colin Beatty (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
Sam Morris (the Ohio State University)
The event is hosted by the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport.
Event Information:
http://www.nasss.org/
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