Prof Andy Miah's Outputs (13)
Contemporary Sport And Its Implications For The Olympic Games (4) (2024)
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This article proposes a framework for defining contemporary sport as a route into understanding
critical trends that are shaping the future of the Olympic Games. First, it specifies that the last 20 years
have represented a period of distinct socie... Read More about Contemporary Sport And Its Implications For The Olympic Games (4).
The Moral Metaverse: Establishing an Ethical Foundation for XR Design. (2023)
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Technology in sports organizations (2020)
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Enhancing evolution : the transhuman case for gene doping (2019)
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Overview of a current ethical challenge in anti-doping (2017)
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Sports (2015)
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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_399-1This 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)
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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_85-1This 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)
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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_33-1This 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)
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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)
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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)
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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.