Sport and Play in a Digital World

ISBN-13: 9781138306837 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 116 str.

Ivo Van Hilvoorde

Opis

This book explores the reality of new types of ‘digital sports’, such as gaming, cybersport and eSports, and how the virtual or the electronic takes over, contradicts or melts with current sports as we know it. It was originally published as a special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.

Spis treści

Introduction Ivo van Hilvoorde  Virtual Domains for Sports and Games Jason Holt   Embodiment and fundamental motor skills in eSports Ivo van Hilvoorde and Niek Pot  Broadband and circuits: The place of public gaming in the history of sport Kalle Jonasson  What kind of an activity is a virtual game? A Postmodern approach in relation to concept of Phantasm by Deleuze and the philosophy of Huizinga Barış Şentuna and Dinçer Kanbur   Personal identity and the Massively Multiplayer Online World Andrew Edgar  Will robots ever play sports? Francisco Javier Lopez Frias and Jose Luis Perez Triviño  An Earthless World: The Contemporary Enframing of Sport In Digital Games Steven Conway  The Defining Components of the Cyborg: Cyborg-Athletes, Fictional or Real? Francisco Javier Lopez Frias

O autorze

Ivo van Hilvoorde (1968) is Professor at the School of Human Movementand Sport, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Zwolle, the Netherlands, and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In his research, he combines philosophical, sociological and pedagogical perspectives on sport and physical education, with special interest in new technologies.