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2025

EXTENSION OF THE GRAVITY MODEL: A RISK INTEGRATED APPROACH TOWARDS THE IMPACT ANALYSIS OF MEGA SPORTS EVENTS ON INBOUND TOURIST ARRIVALS Abdul Sami Stanekzai Old Dominion University Director: Dr. Ghaith Rabadi Mega sports events such as the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup are highly attended and countries compete ferociously to host such events due to their perceived long term positive effects. Inbound tourist forecasting is an important aspect of the hosting decision both for the organizing committees and the hosting nations. As a precaution against letting the event fall into incapable hands, which can lead into chaos and mismanagement, measures needs to be taken. Capacity evaluation of interested parties is possible, only by knowing the number of people who may attend the event. However, due to the infrequent occurrence of such events, it is not straightforward to do so. In this thesis, focus is made on a regression model known as the Gravity Model to predict the number of inboun...

2025

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2025, International Review for the Sociology of Sport

This article brings together key insights from Billy Graef, Brendan Hokowhitu, and Holly Thorpe to critically examine the relationship between sport and the Anthropocene. Together, each writer explores how sport both shapes, and is shaped by, environmental transformations, raising questions about its role in the accelerating ecological crisis. They discuss the need to rethink the Anthropocene through interdisciplinary perspectives, such as, feminist, critical, and Indigenous sociologies, emphasizing the agency of the environment and the intersections between sport, colonialism, capitalism, and industrial expansion. The interview highlights the environmental impacts of mega-events, the material effects of colonialism on sport, and the challenges of governance in sport’s sustainability initiatives. While emphasizing the importance of athlete activism and grassroots movements in driving change, they propose that Indigenous knowledges offer valuable insights into alternative epistemologies and practices, challenging dominant capitalist models. Looking to the future, the article anticipates increasing environmental impacts on sport, including health risks, inequalities, and the need for a radical shift towards more sustainable practices. Ultimately, the scholars argue that sport is deeply implicated in the Anthropocene, requiring a reimagining of its role in a world increasingly shaped by ecological crises.

2025, Investigaciones Turísticas

Tourism legacy impacts are considered one of the most important reasons for countries host a mega event. They generate short, medium and, long-term legacies in the destination image, as well as, at economic and sociocultural level. The paper objective is to show the short-term evolution of economic legacies indicators of sports mega-events, two years before and two years after each event. It was verified through an exploratory analysis of tourism employment level, total investment, and Tourism GDP of the countries that hosted the last three FIFA World Cups. Also, it analyzes the country's competitive strengths at the year that the megaevent happened based on the Tourism & Travel Competitiveness Index pillars (TTCI). Thus, it performed an explanatory and descriptive analysis of secondary data. Literature review points out the infrastructure as the central pillar to receive a sports mega-event. However, the results did not indicate this focus in the last countries chosen. Also, the economic legacies had increased after the sports mega-event, but not in all hosts analyzed. Therefore, the assumption of positive effects generated by sports mega-events is not consolidated. Further research is recommended to establish indicators and approaches the impact on the host country by a mega-event from the legacy perspective.

2025, Catalytic Mega-Events: Tokyo 2020 and Planetary Urban Transformation

This article examines new forms of resistance to mega-events through the examples of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, 2008, the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, 2010, and the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, 2016. The authors argue that unlike the traditional forms of protests such as boycotts and bans, the new forms of resistance to mega-events question its rationale and legacy assumptions, and organise temporary political campaigns that create effective counter narratives. The fundamental arguments of these campaigns are evidencebased and they are executed by a broad coalition of stakeholders. By highlighting socioeconomic inequalities and exclusion that mega-events perpetrate through planning and execution, these campaigns reclaim rights of urban residents to space, identity and decision making. The future of these forms of resistance is unfolding as anti-bid campaigns and those that demand specific urban policies.

2025

Mega-events like the FIFA World Cup, Olympics, international expos, and marathons, although glorified for their cultural, social, and economic significance, present considerable environmental concerns. The surge of players and spectators, along with significant infrastructure development and operating requirements, frequently leads to resource exhaustion, waste production, and environmental stress. Acknowledging the need to ease these effects, organisers have progressively implemented sustainable procedures to diminish environmental deterioration. This study examines the execution of sustainable practices at large-scale events and assesses their efficacy in promoting environmental responsibility and establishing enduring legacies. This study emphasises that despite existing hurdles, the progress achieved in incorporating sustainability provides significant insights for future initiatives. Proactive planning, stakeholder engagement, and ongoing innovation are recognised as essential facilitators of success.

2025, Conflicts in urban future-making: Governance, institutions, and transformative change

2025, COMMICAST

Many ways exist to promote and increase awareness of products, one of which is through collaboration with celebrities or well-known figures to become brand ambassadors. Collaboration with brand ambassadors is a form of communication carried out by a brand or event to convey messages and information to the audience regarding the content of the message. This research was conducted with the aim of understanding the role of Ghanim Al Muftah as a brand ambassador in introducing the inclusive FIFA World Cup 2022. The research method used was descriptive qualitative, employing a case study and literature review method. The results obtained in this study show that Ghanim Al Muftah's role as a brand ambassador has garnered a positive response, had a beneficial impact, and effectively conveyed awareness of the inclusivity aspect to the audience. This is an open access article under the CC-BY-SA license.

2025, Journal of Geography

The concept of space, which is constantly reshaped within the routine activity of geography, forms its contexts through the processes it undergoes, and constructs its basic relations through the “other”. This relationality, which embodies all kinds of dichotomic constructs such as good-bad, beautiful-ugly, and political-apolitical, can have a natural fiction or be based on hegemonic structuralism loaded with ideology. While it can ensure the continuity of individual and collective culture, identity, and memory, it can also commodify the reproduction of all kinds of power elements. Therefore, the relational relations of space can only be understood depending on when, where, and by whom it is constructed. Football spaces, where this relationality is intensely embedded, are constantly reproduced by different actors at different scales and presented to the daily life consumption of individuals and societies in new contexts. In this context, this article aims to analyze the relational contexts of football spaces in the case of the Qatar World Cup. In the study, in which the qualitative research method was used, the data obtained from Twitter users during the 2022 World Cup were analyzed using content and descriptive analysis techniques. As a result of the research, it was understood that football spaces have multi-layered sociopolitical, economic, and cultural contexts constructed by both individual and ideological actors and systems.

2025, Planning and evaluating event legacy.

2025, Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe

2024

RESUMO A importância crescente do esporte na sociedade atual pode ser verificada pelo aumento no número de pessoas ligadas a ele em suas diversas manifestações. No caso específico do voleibol brasileiro, referência no contexto esportivo mundial, seu crescimento destaca-se pelo exemplo de estruturação, organização e planejamento da Confederação Brasileira de Voleibol (CBV), o que despertou o interesse de profissionais da área esportiva em compreender as estratégias usadas pela entidade. A partir desse interesse, o presente estudo caracteriza-se como uma revisão sistemática de cunho qualitativo e tem por objetivo analisar o desenvolvimento do voleibol brasileiro a partir das ações estratégicas realizadas pela CBV. Concluiu-se que o desenvolvimento ocorreu a partir da estruturação organizacional do esporte como negócio e que o baixo número de estudos encontrados aponta uma necessidade de investigação sobre as entidades esportivas do país para entender suas ações estratégicas e indicar,...

2024, Al-Shajarah

This essay explores how public spaces promote Muslim civility and contribute to the revival of Islamic civilisation, with a focus on the 2022 FIFA World Cup (WC22) in Qatar. The central question is, if, and how do public spaces, structured around Muslim civility, support the revival (tajdīd) of Islamic thought? Through the World Cup, Qatar created environments where diverse individuals engaged and shared experiences, fostering understanding across cultural, ethnic, class, and religious lines. These spaces go beyond mere consumption, serving as platforms for dialogue, interaction, and even civilisational exchange. Islamic public ethics—hospitality, compassion, and
justice—were showcased in these cosmopolitan settings, demonstrating how such open, inclusive spaces are essential for Islamic revival. They allow Muslims to reinterpret traditional principles in addressing contemporary issues like Islamophobia and secularism. The World Cup exemplified not just a sporting event, but a microcosm of how Islamicate societies can navigate the intersection of modernity and tradition. By encouraging inter-civilisational encounters, these spaces hold the potential to
showcase and make meaningful Islamic ethical principles in contemporary world by highlighting the significance of public spaces in this long durée revival process.

2024, Afryka

W kilkumiesięcznym odstępie czasu pojawiły się dwie pozycje Elisabeth A. Eldredge, uznanej badaczki dziejów południa Afryki w okresie przedkolonialnym i wczesno kolonialnym. Są to książki odrębne, choć niewątpliwie pisane równocześnie lub w niewielkim odstępie czasu. Jednocześnie są na tyle sobie bliskie tematycznie, by podjąć się recenzji obu jednocześnie. Obie dotyczą zasadniczo tego samego tematu, choć potraktowanego w dwóch różnych wymiarach. Obie są wreszcie przykładem zamian jakie zaszły w ciągu ostatnich ponad 30 lat w południowoafrykańskiej historiografi i, zwłaszcza odnośnie Zulusów, Afryki Południowo-Wschodniej i tradycji państwowości afrykańskich w tym regionie.

2024, Sportwissenschaft

Buss, W./Becker, C. (Hrsg.): Der Sport in der SBZ und frühen DDR. Genese-Strukturen-Bedingungen. Dieser zweite zentrale Band des Projekts zum DDR-Sport wurde mit Spannung erwartet, da das Göttinger Forscherteam um Buss und BECKER theore

2024

The European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are trade partners and believe in rules-based multilateralism. They have developed strong ties despite starting from different starting points and having different standards. The EU is a mature regional cooperation scheme(union) with a highly institutionalized and legalized architecture. At the same time, ASEAN is an intergovernmental association with low institutionalization and legalization in which decisions are made by consensus. After almost fifty years of establishing a diplomatic dialogue between the EU and ASEAN, their cooperation has been of essential importance in maintaining peace and balancing great power rivalries. Materials and methods: Bibliography in books and articles. Results: The EU and ASEAN are among the world's largest economies in terms of gross domestic product. The EU is already the world's second-largest economy, and ASEAN could become the world's fourth-largest economy by 2030. The EU looks forward to strengthening its economic cooperation with ASEAN to maintain its competitive position in the dynamically developing region of the Indo-Pacific. ASEAN is a crucial hub for transporting European goods and is essential in regional supply chains. Closer trade and investment relations could also help the EU achieve its goal of a strategic partnership between the two regional blocks encompassing political and economic cooperation. It would be desirable if the EU and ASEAN continue to connect Europe and Asia by acting as balancers and reducing tensions between the major international players. Conclusions: In the 21st century, the rise of China, India, and other regional powers is consolidating a multipolar system and new geopolitical balances. In this new era, the EU and ASEAN can continue to connect Europe and Asia by acting as balancers and reducing tensions between the major international players.

2024, Studia Politologiczne

Celem artykułu jest zbadanie wpływu niedemokratycznych tendencji w Hiszpanii za rządów Francisco Franco na sytuację międzynarodową tego państwa. Przeanalizowałam szczegółowo przejawy izolacji międzynarodowej Hiszpanii w latach 1945-53 oraz symptomy jej przełamania w latach 1953-57. Przy wyborze tematu artykułu kierowałam się chęcią przybliżenia polskiemu czytelnikowi meandrów polityki zagranicznej Hiszpanii tego okresu, a także chęcią weryfikacji następującej hipotezy: izolacja Hiszpanii na arenie międzynarodowej paradoksalnie nie przyczyniła się do osłabienia dyktatury Francisco Franco. "Wybuch" zimnej wojny okazał się dla F. Franco i jego systemu zbawienny. Zachodnie mocarstwa zdecydowały się bowiem "przymknąć oko" na poczynania frankistowskiego reżimu podczas wojny, doceniając jego antykomunizm. Ponowne przyjęcie Hiszpanii do międzynarodowych gremiów i podjęcie współpracy było ceną za pozostanie tego państwa z dala od wpływów ZSRR. Przy pisaniu artykułu podjęłam problemy badawcze zmierzające do odpowiedzi na następujące pytania: (1) Jak prezentowała się sytuacja międzynarodowa Hiszpanii po II wojnie światowej? (2) Jakie były

2024

Lorsque nous parlons de relations internationales, nous parlons généralement de diplomatie et d'investissement, Le sport peut être utilisé comme outil pour améliorer la diplomatie entre les pays, ainsi que pour développer les intérêts économiques et sociaux. De plus, le sport occupe une place importante dans le repositionnement de l'image d'une nation, tout en améliorant le processus d'intégration des jeunes générations dans le monde. L'un des principaux intérêts, du point de vue du gouvernement, est de créer un lien affectif positif avec la nation hôte de l’évènement sportif. Ce qu'on appelle le soft power. Le but de ce travail est d'explorer certaines des façons dont le sport est utilisé pour générer ce pouvoir, et comment il peut contribuer à générer du contrôle ou à provoquer de l'influence, en se concentrant sur l'État du Qatar. Ce travail est séparé en trois parties principales. Je présente d'abord le développement du sport et la manière...

2024, Communication & Sport

Brisbane will stage a more regionally focused Olympics and Paralympics in 2032 when it follows in the footsteps of a series of mega-city hosts. In this new environment, in which there are challenges finding nations willing even to bid for the event, it is important to understand how sentiment is expressed towards this Games edition, which is being promoted as delivering a sustainable legacy while experiencing different demands, levels of buzz, and risks than previous hosts. This study examines audience emotions towards Brisbane 2032 across 60,929 messages and posts from Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and online media articles between 2021 and 2023. The results highlight positive sentiment overall and outline key themes that the community perceive to be important. However, the findings also indicate early concerns and levels of anxiety towards elements of the Games. The multi-layered analytical approach of this study ensures it progresses beyond general judgements on positive and negative sentiment, providing a more nuanced understanding of emotions towards Brisbane 2032.

2024, Journal of Urban Design and Planning

Since the Chinese economic reform, especially after the Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation rolled out in 2014, there has been an increase in entrepreneurial activities in planned innovative parks and urban residential neighbourhoods. This paper studies the entrepreneurial social spaces produced by adaptive commercial activities (ACAs), and its impact on spatial publicness. It is argued that ACAs can promote spatial publicness in urban residential neighbourhoods. ACAs foreground contradictions between housing policies and private interests. While physical and social spaces of the neighbourhood are modified, the contradictions are negotiated among entrepreneurs and residents in public. Case studies of three residential neighbourhoods in Beijing showed that ACAs in designated residential neighbourhoods are more effective than in designated mixed-use urban areas. Housing policies should provide the flexibility to tolerate ACAs. The construction of neighbourhoods with statistical mixed functions but fixed usage for each space should be avoided. Urban designers should be able to realise the potential of publicness in spaces both inside and around a neighbourhood. 1 Cite this article Zhu T and Lu Q Commercial activities as stimulators for entrepreneurial social spaces in residential neighbourhoods.

2024, Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education and Sport / SCIENCE, MOVEMENT AND HEALTH

Aim. The main objective of the study is to investigate and establish the relationship between shooting accuracy to the goal and final ranking in the top football divisions of three Balkan countries. The study was done for Romania. Croatia and Turkey for the season 2023/2024. Methods. Collecting data from the three leagues surveyed for the 23/24 season and analyze the resulting metrics using mathematical and statistical methods. Comparing the three leagues and drawing conclusions and recommendations. Results. The results were obtained after analyzing all 680 matches from the observed professional leagues. The data was analyzed using Pearson correlation of coefficient. A high correlation was found between average age and goalshooting accuracy towards the final ranking. Conclusions. We can conclude that shooting at goal is not of particular importance, and the accuracy and frequency of accurate shots on goal in 90 minutes are fundamental to the final ranking. Average age is strongly correlated with accurate shots on goal, proving that more experienced players would contribute to a better ranking at the end of the championship.

2024, Monographien

Bedeutung und Effekte der öffentlichen Sportförderung Die aktive Ausübung wie auch der passive Konsum von Sport ist mit erheblichen externen Effekten verbunden: Die Ausrichtung von Wettkämpfen und die Bereitstellung von Sportinfrastruktur begünstigen die Tourismuswirtschaft eines Landes und die mit ihr verbundenen Wirtschaftssektoren. Darüber hinaus verbessert Sportausübung den allgemeinen Gesundheitszustand und trägt damit positiv zu Produktivität und Wachstum bei. Auch die meritorischen Eigenschaften des Sports und verteilungspolitische Gesichtspunkte können zur Legitimation einer öffentlichen Förderung des Sports herangezogen werden. Sie umfasst neben der Bildungs-und Erziehungspolitik marktkonforme Instrumente wie monetäre und reale Transfers an Vereine, Funktionäre, Sportausübende oder auch private Sponsoren.

2024, Motriz-revista De Educacao Fisica

This paper sought to evaluate the infrastructure of public swimming pools in a countryside municipality of the state of São Paulo and to present the Geographic Information System (GIS) as a tool capable of assisting in the management of sports facilities and programs. Methods: This is a descriptive study since it intends to expose the characteristics of a certain context. First, documentary research was performed to map the facilities and their respective projects. After that, a field survey was conducted seeking to evaluate the infrastructure of public pools and their surroundings through observation. Lastly, using georeferencing software, the population, and socioeconomic data around these pools were obtained and analyzed. Results: It was identified ten public swimming pools, and in seven the offer of swimming projects was foreseen. The infrastructure of the pools is mainly unsatisfactory, making necessary the improvement of the installation itself and in its surroundings. According to the results of the GIS, each pool has its specific public target concerning the characteristics of the profile of the residents surrounding these facilities. Conclusion: Information regarding the public profile around sports facilities generated from a tool such as GIS showed it is possible to determine which sports projects should be prioritized in each facility, leading to improvement in the management of sports-related public policies.

2024, PROTOCOLO DE PREMIACIÓN EN LA COPA DE LA REINA

El artículo aborda el protocolo de entrega de medallas en la final de la Copa de la Reina, el cual es similar al de la Copa del Rey. En esta competición, el club campeón se encarga de colocar las medallas, generando controversia recientemente cuando las futbolistas tuvieron que colocárselas entre ellas. A diferencia de otras competiciones, en la Copa de la Reina y Copa del Rey, el trofeo se entrega en el palco y el delegado del equipo campeón reparte las medallas en los vestuarios. Se sugiere que se realicen cambios en el protocolo para darle más relevancia a las finales y se espera una ceremonia de entrega de medallas en el futuro.

2024, International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal

The last few years have seen the return of athlete activism into major international sports events held worldwide as a mindset based on social responsibility and political freedom of speech has spread into the selfperception of many current top athletes. However, while these athletes may have experienced a recent personal transformation, the national political backlash accompanying activism remains set in a long tradition condemning political interference in sports. This article provides a background on the tradition of castigating political athlete activists, a theory on why and

2024, Berliner Journal für Soziologie

In der politischen Soziologie wird heute vielfach zwischen einem positiven und einem negativen nationalstolz (Patriotismus und nationalismus) unterschieden. der vorliegende beitrag untersucht, inwieweit sich diese beiden theoretischen Konstrukte anhand der umfragedaten des International Social Survey Programme 2003 empirisch nachweisen lassen. In einem ersten Schritt wird die Kriteriums-und Konstruktvalidität der Skalen "nationalismus" und "Patriotismus" mit den üblichen statistischen Methoden geprüft. Sodann werden die ergebnisse einer in Österreich durchgeführten Probing-Studie präsentiert, in der die befragten nach dem Ausfüllen des ISSP-Fragebogens gebeten wurden, ihre Antworten zu begründen. Abschließend wird versucht, mit einer literatursoziologischen Analyse zusätzliche Aspekte herauszuarbeiten, die beim konventionellen soziologischen Zugang zum Thema meist unbeachtet bleiben. Angesichts der Inkonsistenzen, die sich sowohl in den quantitativen als auch in den qualitativen Analysen, vor allem aber im Vergleich der beiden Analyseebenen zeigen, stellt sich die Frage, ob die polarisierende gegenüberstellung von nationalismus und Patriotismus theoretisch sinnvoll und die üblichen Messungen dieser Konstrukte valide sind.

2024

Sport mega-events are often supported for their supposed ability to achieve positive social outcomes for the host country residents. However, empirical evidence regarding the effect of sport mega-events on subjective well-being is ambiguous, and therefore there remain questions regarding the effectiveness of sport mega-events in producing positive subjective well-being outcomes, to what extent, and how these outcomes may occur. The purpose of this chapter is to outline an example of how subjective well-being and social experiences have been addressed in relation to a sport mega-event, and to offer considerations for future research in this area. The study presented here was conducted via questionnaire during (n=402), and after (n=401) the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and investigated if social impact experiences from the event could explain variance in subjective well-being amongst host country residents. During the event, we found that social impact experiences were not predictors of subjective well-being. Results following the event demonstrated similar findings. These results indicate that social experiences promoted by hosting Rio 2016 did not change the subjective well-being of host country residents. The results are consistent with existing literature on social impacts of sport events, however are not consistent with existing literature regarding sport event hosting and subjective well-being. We suggest avenues for future research to further investigate subjective well-being and sport events in regard to possible underlying mechanisms of subjective well-being, the longevity of sport mega-event effects on host residents, as well as possible contextual and theoretical advancements in this line of inquiry.

2024, International Journal of Recreation and Sports Science

The aim of this study was to identify the interests of young people in their occupation of free time that configures the experiences they have lived and to analyse what they would like to live in terms of leisure, but that, due to some impending factor, do not do so. The research is linked to a larger study: “Leisure in Brazil” that analysed the ways of living leisure in the national territory. The article dealt specifically with youth leisure in the southeast region and the information was collected through structured interviews. Despite the existing differences due to the socioeconomic situation, gender, and education of young people, we identified the relevance attributed to leisure in the company of friends, confirming the socializing and unifying role of groups through leisure. The analysis pointed out the economic and educational inequality, reflected in the access to leisure activities and justifies the need to abandon a homogenizing view of youth.

2024, International Corporate Communication Hub

This interview covers the role of events in shaping cities, and in particular the transformative power of 'pulsar events' such as the Olympic Games and the European Capital of Culture.

2024, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences Volume

Managing a scientific journal is a critical and challenging service for academics and practitioners. There must be a way for journal editors to gain a clear picture of their publication's performance and gain insight into how they can make improvements to expand the journal's impact. Knowing the journal's performance and its leading contribution to a particular field can be useful for journal managers readers, authors, and science policymakers. This article presents a management framework informed by scientometrics and bibliometrics as a science that uses statistical techniques to analyze information distribution models, to help journals contribute more to the field by optimum engagement of editorial knowledge and expertise and expanding the boundaries of what is known. We examined one prominent journal as a case study in this paper. The outcomes are used to assess the feasibility of the proposed framework. The top contributions of the case journal are identified systematically, and strategies for potential growth are proposed accordingly. Based on the findings, this study not only provides an overview of the benefits of scientometrics-based journal management but also provides recommendations to strengthen the journal's impact on the field as a contribution to practice. As a result, this article is intended to benefit publishers, journal editors, readers, and policymakers.

2024

2024, Webology

Many studies around the world in the field of scientometrics and research trends analysis are carried out using bibliometric techniques to analyze a specific research area or a special journal. The purpose of this bibliometric study was to investigate the research trends of the journal of Sport Management Review based on the Web of Science (WoS) citation database in the period 2011-2018. The findings of this bibliometric study can be useful for sport researchers and the editorial board of the above-mentioned journal. The results of this study showed that countries such as the

2024, Marcel Lemmes, Stephan Packard und Klaus Sachs-Hombach (Hrsg.): Zukunft der Bilder: Herausforderungen der Bildwissenschaft. Köln [Herbert von Halem] 2025/in Vorbereitung

Zum Zeitpunkt des Verfassens dieses Textes – im Frühjahr 2024 – existieren allgemein zugängliche KI-Bildgeneratoren wie Dall·E, Midjourney oder Stable Diffusion seit etwa zwei Jahren. Ziemlich genau in der Halbzeit dieser bisherigen Phase, also im Frühjahr 2023, wurde mit der IMAGE-Sonderausgabe Generative Imagery: Towards a ›New Paradigm‹ of Machine Learning-Based Image Production (an der der Verfasser dieses Textes ebenfalls als Autor und Mitherausgeber beteiligt war) eine erste medienwissenschaftliche und bildtheoretische Bestandsaufnahme oder ›Vermessung‹ dieses neuen Paradigmas der Bild-Produktion, -distribution und -rezeption vorgelegt. Die meisten der damals von den beteiligten Autor*innen getroffenen Befunde waren ohne Frage nur wenige Monate später bereits technisch überholt, etwa Beschreibungen der damals typischen, technisch bedingten Grenzen bzw. ›Bugs und Glitches‹ der neuen Bildtechnik. Die hier folgenden Reflexionen nehmen daher eine wesentlich größere Latenz zum Ausgangspunkt, die vermutlich auch in ein, zwei Jahren noch nicht gänzlich überwunden und entschieden sein wird. Gefragt wird nach der Integration bzw. Widerständigkeit von KI-Bildern innerhalb der weiteren Medienkonvergenz oder der Medienökologie. Medientheoretisch ließen sich diese Spannungen als verschiedene Intermedialitätsphasen deuten. Bei früheren Medienumbrüchen und -neuerungen lösten sich diese Phasen erst nach Jahrzehnten ab. Auch wenn die medientechnische Beschleunigung von immer leistungsfähigeren KI-Plattformen, Large Language Models (LLMs) und neuronalen Netzen beeindruckend ist, spricht doch derzeit nichts für eine ebensolche Beschleunigung von Intermedialitätsmomenten. Wie zu diskutieren sein wird, ist dies vielleicht auch kein Zufall, geht es bei dieser Ablöse doch gar nicht um technische Fragen (oder Innovationen), sondern um genuin kulturelle Momente der Integration neuer Medientechniken in bestehende und sich neu entwickelnde soziale ›Protokolle‹, Konventionen und Praxen, die eine viel höhere Halbwertszeit aufweisen als technische Updates. Aber natürlich ist die (Medien-) Geschichte des KI-Bildes noch nicht geschrieben und seine Medienarchäologie wird sicherlich viele verschüttete Irrwege freizulegen haben. Was also lässt sich, Stand Frühjahr 2024, zum Impact des KI-Bildes auf die Medienkonvergenz aussagen?

2024

Alors que l'ANDRA (agence nationale pour les déchets radioactifs) attend toujours l'accord de DAC (autorisation de création) de l'ASN (Autorité de sûreté nucléaire) pour entamer son projet contesté d'enfouissement des déchets hautement radioactifs à vie (très) longue, à moins 500 mètres de profondeur, sous le village de Bure dans la Meuse, les expropriations d'agriculteurs continuent, malgré leurs oppositions à ce projet démentiel.

2024, BMC Public Health

Background: Unhealthy foods are promoted heavily, through food company sponsorship of elite sport, resulting in extensive exposure among young adults who are avid sport spectators. This study explores the effects of sponsorship of an elite sporting event by: (A) non-food brands (control), (B) unhealthy food brands, (C) healthier food brands, or (D) an obesity prevention public health campaign on young adults' brand awareness, attitudes, image perceptions, eventsponsor fit perceptions, and preference for food sponsors' products. Methods: A between-subjects web-based experiment was conducted, consisting of four sponsorship conditions (A through D) featuring three product categories within each condition. Australian adults (N = 1132) aged 18-24 years were recruited via a national online panel. Participants viewed promotional videos and news stories about an upcoming international, multi-sport event (with sponsor content edited to reflect each condition), completed a distractor task, and then answered questions assessing the response variables. Regression analyses were conducted to test for differences by sponsorship condition on the respective outcome measures. Results: Compared to the control condition, unhealthy food sponsorship promoted higher awareness of, and more favourable attitudes towards, unhealthy food sponsor brands. Unhealthy food sponsorship also led to greater perceived event-sponsor fit and transfer of perceptions of the sporting event to the unhealthy food sponsor brands, relative to the control group. Exposure to sponsorship for healthier foods produced similar sponsorship effects for healthier food sponsor brands, as well as prompting a significant increase in the proportion of young adults showing a preference for these products. Obesity prevention campaign sponsorship promoted higher campaign awareness and perceived eventsponsor fit, but did not impact food attitudes or preference for unhealthy versus healthier foods. Conclusion: Findings suggest that restricting elite sport sponsorship to healthier food brands that meet set nutritional criteria could help promote healthier eating among young adults. Sporting organisations should be encouraged to seek sponsorship from companies who produce healthier food brands and government-funded social marketing campaigns. Clinical trial registration: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) registration number ACTRN12618000368235. Retrospectively registered 12 March 2018.

2024, Journal of Business Research

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2024, Revista Movimentos Sociais E Dinâmicas Espaciais

2024, Journal of Physical Education

This work sought to analyze sports in the service offered through Brazilian Social Assistance Policies, the Service for Coexistence and Community Reinforcement (SCCR), with a central axis of analysis in the qualification program for the people aged 15 to 17, called Projovem Adolescente. Here we explain the theoretical and conceptual understanding of SCCR in Brazil and its structuring axes. We also describe the theoretical and methodological proposal for sports in Projovem and develop a methodology for analysis that proposes to reveal whether the sports experience proposed in the program is aligned with the delimitations of the SCCR. This article is characterized by a qualitative social research of exploratory nature, using bibliographical reviews and document research. We concluded that there is considerable alignment between Projovem's sports field proposals and SCCR regulations, in addition to its success in its theoretical conception, from a critical perspective on sports and...

2024, Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists

Agricultural commodity trading plays an important role in the global trade. The main reason of this article is to present changes in agricultural commodity trading that had appeared between 2004-2014 for BRICS countries. Furthermore, it examines how would the agricultural commodity trading would look if we would treat BRICS countries as one economic block. Descriptive statistics had been used by presenting an aggregated agricultural commodity trading data to elaborate this research problem.

2024, Motriz: Revista de Educação Física

Sporting mega-event organization requires developing strategies to maximize the chance of success. For the Brazil 2014 Fifa World Cup, it was not different. The action started long before the opening match on 06/12/2014. The issue we seek to investigate is: How did the 2014 Fifa World Cup's management as a sporting mega-event develop during the pre-event phase? The general objective was to identify and analyze management-related peculiarities of the 2014 Fifa World Cup's management during the pre-event period. The operational objectives were: (i) To identify the organizational structure set up to manage the 2014 Fifa World Cup; (ii) reveal the candidacy process; (iii) find out the initial budgets/investments planned for the 2014 Fifa World Cup; (iv) examine the management difficulties that happened during the pre-event period; and (v) detect the legacy left by said phase. Method: primary data was collected through an elite interview conceded by ex-Minister of Sports Orlando Silva and secondary data was obtained through bibliographical and documental research techniques. The interview was evaluated through content analysis. The analysis and discussion were categorized as follows: organizational structure, candidacy process, management, and legacy. The results show legacy was obtained in the pre-event phase due to the knowledge generated during the candidacy process. They also show a strengthening of Brazil's image as a mega-event organizer. Some difficulties include no integration between organizers, delay in defining host-cities and construction, no initial budgets and no transparency in the bid's initial publishing.

2024, Sustainability

The rapid expansion of the eSports industry has attracted scholars’ attention in recent years. However, little research has investigated the evolution of the extant eSports literature. This study aimed to explore the existing knowledge base of eSports and its research networks across authors, journals, institutions, and countries by performing a bibliometric analysis. A total of 260 studies published between 2010 and 2021 were extracted from the Scopus database, which is one of the largest abstract and citation databases. Then, they were analyzed using VOSviewer. Specifically, a series of analyses were conducted: (1) citation analysis, (2) co-occurrence analysis of keywords, and (3) co-citation analysis. The findings revealed that the existing eSports literature mainly revolves around eSports games and activities closely related to eSports. Moreover, the most influential authors and publications were identified. In addition, the studies have been published in journals of various dis...

2024

In 2016, the XXXI Summer Olympic Games took place in Rio de Janeiro. In line with the bidding procedure and the hope for an Olympic legacy, the Brazilian government and the Rio de Janeiro City Council made commitments to deliver lasting improvements to the city’s residents. These improvements relate to infrastructure like transport and facilities, but also residents’ health and well-being. Such health benefits, in particular those concerning physical activity (PA), were promised to be delivered through national and regional policies and interventions. According to official documents, changes would begin to be implemented in the years preceding the Games and one of the legacy promises was to use the event to stimulate people to engage in LTPA/sport. The main purpose of this thesis was therefore to assess the impact of the 2016 Olympic Games on LTPA/sport participation of the local population. Specifically, the investigation focused on women living in Cidade de Deus, a low socio econo...

2024, Georgetown University in Qatar

Three current and former Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) faculty and staff are among the top 2% of most-cited researchers in the world, according to a 2023 Stanford University study titled “Updated Science-wide Author Databases of... more