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Re: APC Wikipedia Training Session in Perth

Leighblackall — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:58:09 -0000

Nice Laura, thanks. I spotted a few typos that need correcting. Paragraph 2, sentence 3, did 3 paralympians attend, or 2? The others are not serious, and I think you'll spot them with a once over. The important bits are there, and you make very useful comments and suggestions, thanks.

Re: September 4 MLB Foursquare Checkin Totals

John Evers — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:28:28 -0000

This is great Laura. Your's is the only site I have found that tracks foursquare check-ins like this. It's fascinating.

Re: Rethinking my literature review

Marthawelch79 — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:01:35 -0000

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Re: Review of literature first complete draft rewrite

LauraH — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:29:44 -0000

Tennis players are also very active on Twitter. There are some weird differences with how individual sports vs. team sports operate and that is hard to address in something like this...

Re: Review of literature first complete draft rewrite

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:30:09 -0000

There's a key point!

"Until the rise of the Internet [my emphasis: specific timelines? general point?] sports fandom was mediated through three perspectives: managers, media, sponsors".

Great quotes from Solon and a good example about the Chicago Cubs. The Chicago Clubs example shows in a fan-friendly form why you might barrack for your team.

Identity and relationships are strongly presented: events are not, even though they might be more tangible. The time element worked well in the Canberra Raiders jersey paragraph.

This paragraph is very revealing of where the research has been and is going:

<quote>Online analysis of sport fans may provide the best insight into how fans respond to events though little actual research appears to have been done to provide such insight. Berg and Harcourt (2008) talk about how analysis of sport fandom online offers what cannot be done in other situations: providing context for sport fan behavior. Berg and Harcourt (2008) also claim that studying sport fandom online also helps to give a “more well-rounded understanding of sports fandom and its expression by illuminating new areas for understanding and for studying both online and offline fandom.” Behaviors, not identity issues, connect to actions, and thus can be better understood in context of events that behaviors happen in response to.</quote> [Hale 2011].

Sports scholars and fans treat the element of time very differently based on their other focuses. (like identity, relationships, behaviour).

An example of Favorito's point came when I was looking at Wimbledon results on sites for WTA players (like Dellacqua; Stosur and Dokic). Stosur lost in the first round; Dokic was still there as of the second; Dellacqua was injured. I noticed that they were all made by a company called Pro Tennis Internet Services, and I was impressed with the way they captured the individual spirit of the players (Australian and non-Australian) and allowed opportunities for fan interaction. I had not seen it in this sport before 2008 and only with Venus and Serena Williams. Now an example of time would be relative contributions during Slam and non-Slam events. For example, the July calendar between Wimbledon and the US Open looks dry to a casual, moderately knowledgeable, not overly interested in hard court style and strategy fan; but I observed that Sania Mirza has had a US tour in April 2011. Svetlana Kuztensova also has a calendar of events, which I was able to connect to LiveJournal.

There were four tennis stories in today's Herald-Sun. Tennis has classically been dependent on the media; however Tennis Australia [managers] have become much more active especially in the last 24-36 months. [Probably an example of the medium-term priorities!]

Re: Rethinking my literature review

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:29:20 -0000

Glad to see sport sociology in there and that as the first thing.

There were only 4 fields before.

"Fans and the media" probably does fit in well in the narrative between "Sport marketing" and "Popular culture".

Athletics is very similar to cycling in that the goal is participation, especially for young people and for charity (this could come into sports sociology).

This rewriting is exciting because it seems that nobody else has done it in this way. That's what a dissertation is all about: crystallising knowledge and experience and putting new knowledge into the field.

Sport tourism: think about the Grand Final, and big events... It is even more important for smaller events.

Re: Sport studies: Where do fans fit into the academic model?

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:24:46 -0000

Yes!

Timelines and conflict are very important.

They could serve as a way to organise the dissertation.

As for "where fans fit", just reading the title, "We don't".

Good points on sport tourism and sport marketing.

Re: About

Laura — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:04:57 -0000

Will add you to the list. Just haven't posted it in a while because been busy. :/

Re: About

Donna — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:35:11 -0000

Hi, I randomly came across your article on "Most popular female Australian athletes and teams on Twitter".. and you said to let you know if you missed anyone out.. I think you missed me out, I'm a proffessional squash player. Also, one of my best friends is one of Aus's top ironwomen in surf life saving - Alyce Bennett. Just thought I'd let you know anyway :)
Donna Urquhart.

Re: Popular cultures studies is not the right approach to understanding sport fandom online

LauraH — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:01:59 -0000

If a movie was already out on DVD and the television rights had already been sold, I don't think that a movie being stripped of its Oscar would have any impact on fandom in terms of its reflection back on the needs of the producers and their ability to make money. Depending on how long ago the source was released, I 'd think the fan reaction might be less just because people would have moved on. (Which might be a point worth looking into if I can find a source: Length of time in a fandom.)

I think the sport literature makes it clear that sport allegiances are tied up into identity and the body total of popular cultures towards fandom is about production. Just seems very apple/orange.

Re: Popular cultures studies is not the right approach to understanding sport fandom online

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:45:46 -0000

Some great points especially inherited allegiances and the production aspect of sport.

In literary awards at least, all texts may be held as "not good enough" for that particular year according to the award's criteria. Or the author/producer might decline that award, like Jean-Paul Sartre and the Nobel Prize.

(I too wonder about the Oscars and what might happen if the awards got stripped).

Does sport have an impact on core personal identity and behaviour that popular culture doesn't? How do you meditate that in the research methodology?

Re: Most popular Australian (and New Zealand) netball related Twitter accounts (March 23)

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:52:27 -0000

Is Cranbourne really in New South Wales?

Re: Etihad Stadium on Foursquare

LauraH — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:12:16 -0000

Added to my list. :) Any other sport events that you want, let me know. :)

Re: Etihad Stadium on Foursquare

Danny Bishop — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:04:36 -0000

This Friday night (March 12, 2011) : Essendon V Collingwood in the AFL Preseason competition Grand Final.

Re: Etihad Stadium on Foursquare

Danny Bishop — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:04:36 -0000

This Friday night (March 12, 2011) : Essendon V Collingwood in the AFL Preseason competition Grand Final.

Re: Paralympic sport in online Australia

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:01:25 -0000

Great!

It's good that you can see which cities gained and lost followers for the Paralympic Committee account.

It was also interesting to see the educational status of various followers.

(At least some of the university graduates became interested during the Sydney Paralympics in 2000, when some of them were in high school).

The current Twitter account says 487 following.

Hope you are able to get lots more accounts for individuals and for teams: especially wheelchair rugby, basketball (the Rollers and the Gliders), goalball, sailing, athletics.

Would also be good to get Foursquare.

Looking forward to the Alexa statistics.

I see that the Paralympic football team has a Facebook page. Their discussion page is active and has dates. They also have a Twitter:

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Re: New Zealand sport web traffic in response to the Christchurch earthquake

LauraH — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:01:19 -0000

The data I have is the data I have. A lot of it can be garbage unless there turns out to be some use for it and in cases like this, you just can't predict an event like this.

Re: 2011 Cricket World Cup: Foursquare Checkins to date (26-Feb-11)

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:28:34 -0000

It was still interesting that Australia is the second country on the table (where the nations are arranged in order).

And many of the smaller countries; they had just one person.

The New Zealand-Australia game was so close. 1 run and 7 wickets!

Re: New Zealand sport web traffic in response to the Christchurch earthquake

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:26:34 -0000

As far as the Rugby World Cup [in some 6 months time: September - October] may go, people were worried about the big ground in Christchurch.

It seems, so far, that it's not been damaged.

As for without electricity/the Internet: have you tried other areas where this might be the case? (for example, Egypt. But the cutoff in that case would have been deliberate/government intervention).

Pre-earthquake athletics in New Zealand were popular because of the Paralympics as well as mainstream events.

Any NZ-specific newsites in that data? It doesn't look like there are any. And of course there is stuff.nz.

I think the chart is very interesting: probably one of the first looks.

Re: 2011 Cricket World Cup: Foursquare Checkins to date (26-Feb-11)

LauraH — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:28:05 -0000

Doesn't look like it, no.

Re: 2011 Cricket World Cup: Foursquare Checkins to date (26-Feb-11)

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:36:50 -0000

So it seems that nobody Foursquared the Australia: New Zealand game?

Re: The relationships between jobs in social media

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:26:27 -0000

I see now that most of the social media people are offsite.

Great to know that there would be somebody anticipating a traffic event.

And thumbs up to content creation!

Re: Historical AFL Alexa data

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:00:46 -0000

And I see that 2011 information doesn't come up until quite far into the table [that is: after 1000 records], except for some of the bigger/more well-known sites.

For those interested:

January 2011 records: 936
February 2011 records: 510 [as of 21-Feb-2011]

Re: Historical AFL Alexa data

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:55:40 -0000

I noticed the dates weren't correct when I saw a July date with the Gold Coast Suns along with the December ones. This was when dates were unsorted [the default setting].

This may well apply for other teams and websites.

Re: Historical AFL Alexa data

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:53:09 -0000

Hope you are able to do something about where the commas are placed.

(I know that certain computer languages rely on them heavily for the syntax backend!)

Thanks for pointing out about the compilation process. Waiting until the teams were named might not have been such a good idea.

Hope you are able to sort out the dates as well.