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Technology in sports organizations (2020)
Book Chapter
Slack, T., & Miah, A. (2021). Technology in sports organizations. In T. Slack, T. Byers, & A. Thurston (Eds.), Understanding sport organizations : applications for sport managers (3rd edition) (377-394). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics

Enhancing evolution : the transhuman case for gene doping (2019)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2019). Enhancing evolution : the transhuman case for gene doping. In J. Lightfoot, M. Hubal, & S. Roth (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Exercise Systems Genetics (463-474). Abingdon, UK: Routledge

Overview of a current ethical challenge in anti-doping (2017)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2017). Overview of a current ethical challenge in anti-doping. In A. Rigozzi, E. Wisnosky, & B. Quinn (Eds.), The proceedings of the 2017 Macolin Anti-Doping Summit: A fresh look at the science, legal and policy aspects of anti-doping (159-170). Bern: Editions WebLaw

Sports (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Sports. In H. Have (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (1-11). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_399-1

This chapter explores the relationship between bioethics and sport ethics, which changed dramatically in the early 2000 when the genetics era generated a series of new questions about the ends of sport and how they would interface more widely with a... Read More about Sports.

Human enhancement in sports (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Human enhancement in sports. In W. Bainbridge, & M. Roco (Eds.), Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence (1-13). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2_85-1

This chapter examines the range of sciences and technologies that converge around sports and the implications of this for issues of fairness and ethics. First, it outlines some of the recent scientific developments that speak to the convergence of di... Read More about Human enhancement in sports.

Convergence with the Arts (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Convergence with the Arts. In Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence (1-10). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2_33-1

This chapter examines convergence in science and arts by considering two complementary trajectories over the last 25 years. First, it examines the institutional drivers behind convergence, from the perspective of governance and public value within sc... Read More about Convergence with the Arts.

The cybersport nexus (2014)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2014). The cybersport nexus. In The Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media (76-86). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203114711.ch7

Exercise machines increasingly incorporate computer-controlled motion and force feedback and will eventually become reactive robotic sports partners.…Today’s rudimentary, narrowband video games will evolve into physically engaging telesports.

Bioart (2014)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2014). Bioart. In R. Ranisch, & S. Sorgner (Eds.), Post- and transhumanism : an introduction (227-240). Berlin: Peter Lang

This chapter makes explicit the association of certain art forms and art works to trans- and posthumanist ideas, which have become constitutive of the political, cultural and philosophical differences and similarities that exist between these conc... Read More about Bioart.

Tweeting the Olympic Games (2013)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2013). Tweeting the Olympic Games. In V. Girginov (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games (96-109). Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203126486.ch7

From the introduction of television at the Berlin 1936 Olympic Games to its transformation into 3D broadcasting at London 2012, media innovation has always surrounded the Olympics (Miah & Garcia 2012). As such, the broader context of a debate about L... Read More about Tweeting the Olympic Games.