I’ve just landed back in England after an excellent weekend at the 10th Social Media and Society Conference. This year, it was held at Ted Rogers Management School at Ryerson University Toronto from Fri 19th July to Sunday 21st July. It was my first visit to Canada and this short Read more…
I was recently asked by the BBC to be interviewed for a programme called Rip Off Britain about the power of reviews and Amazon scams. I appear twice at the start of the programme, which can be seen on iPlayer here. Leading up to the programme, I put this post Read more…
I was recently invited to give a keynote talk on digital sport and fan engagement at Coppead Graduate School of Business in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Like my own University at Salford, the staff and students and the local sports clubs in Brazil are all very interested in using technologies Read more…
What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a digital currency or cryptocurrency which has gained popularity since it started in 2009. It is owned and controlled by it users, peer to peer and has no central control like traditional currencies. It uses a technology called Blockchain, which is a list of encrypted Read more…
Events in the Western World are increasingly adopting digital technologies to engage, connect and understand audiences. They are using social media, apps, wearable technologies and more in order to enhance the physical experience of being at an event and to allow organisers and participants to communicate before during and after Read more…
In this final part of our digital sport and fan engagement series, we discuss smartphone apps. With over 5 billion mobile devices on the planet and 2.5 billion of these are smartphones, this provides an incredible opportunity for sports clubs to engage with fans on a global scale. Smartphone apps Read more…
The term Internet of Things (IoT) dates back to 1999 and has become more popular in recent times to describe the network of various devices connected to the Internet. A recent poll on Consumer Affairs showed that although 70% of people owned an IoT device, only 20% had a firm grasp Read more…
In part 3 of this blog post series about digital sport and fan engagement, we turn our attentions to the growing field of eSports. Playing video games competitively has been around since the first games were released. The rise of competitive video gaming In 1980, Atari held a Space Invaders competition Read more…
Digital technology is developing at an incredible rate and its impact on sports fans over the last decade has been nothing short of spectacular. In part 2 of this blog post series of digital sport & fan engagement, we turn our attentions to virtual reality (VR). VR relies upon immersing Read more…
Part 1 of this blog post series of digital sport and fan engagement covers sports clubs and social media. It discusses the way in which clubs and players use social media platforms in order to reach fans and build their brands. In the previous post, I discussed the triple revolution of Read more…