Outputs (18)

The esports question for the Olympic movement (2021)
Journal Article
Miah, A. (2021). The esports question for the Olympic movement. Journal of Olympic studies (Online), 2(2), 14-26. https://doi.org/10.5406/jofolympstud.2.2.0015

Ever since the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, appeared as Super Mario in the Tokyo 2020 handover ceremony at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the scene was set for esports to become part of what the International Olympic Committee (IOC) defines as the ‘O... Read More about The esports question for the Olympic movement.

How do esports companies support their community’s wellness? (2020)
Journal Article
Miah, A. (2020). How do esports companies support their community’s wellness?

Background: With the growing professionalisation of esports, there is greater public scrutiny of the health and wellness of their communities, but no research outlining the approaches taken by esports companies to deploy services and support.

Aims... Read More about How do esports companies support their community’s wellness?.

Technology in sports organizations (2020)
Book Chapter

Drones : the brilliant, the bad and the beautiful (2020)
Book

Against the backdrop of an increasingly dynamic world, driven by rapid digital innovation and technological advances, drones are becoming prolific within society. In this book, Andy Miah delivers a comprehensive analysis of the wide-reaching applicat... Read More about Drones : the brilliant, the bad and the beautiful.

Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017 (2019)
Journal Article

Informed by a discourse analysis, this article examines the framing of equity within the UK's digital health policies between 2010 and 2017, focusing on England's development of NHS Digital and its situation within the UK Government's wider digital s... Read More about Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017.

Enhancing evolution : the transhuman case for gene doping (2019)
Book Chapter

Sport’s digital future : biodigital design, e-sport, mixed reality, fan engagement and gamification (2017)
Book Chapter

Nanoethics, science communication, and a fourth model for public engagement (2017)
Journal Article

This paper develops a fourth model of public engagement with science, grounded in the principle of nurturing scientific agency through online participatory bioethics. It argues that social media is an effective device through which to enable such eng... Read More about Nanoethics, science communication, and a fourth model for public engagement.

Sport 2.0 : transforming sports for a digital world (2017)
Book

Digital technology is changing everything about modern sports. Athletes and coaches rely on digital data to monitor and enhance performance. Officials use tracking systems to augment their judgment in what is an increasingly superhuman field of play.... Read More about Sport 2.0 : transforming sports for a digital world.

Mobile, wearable and ingestible health technologies : towards a critical research agenda (2016)
Journal Article

In this article, we review critical research on mobile and wearable health technologies focused on the promotion of ‘healthy lifestyles’. We begin by discussing key governmental and policy interests which indicate a shift towards greater digital inte... Read More about Mobile, wearable and ingestible health technologies : towards a critical research agenda.