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"I Just Go on Wi-Fi": Imagining Worlds Through Professional Basketball Migrants' Deployment of Information and Communication Technology

Faulkner, C, Molnar, G and Kohe, G (2019) "I Just Go on Wi-Fi": Imagining Worlds Through Professional Basketball Migrants' Deployment of Information and Communication Technology. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 43 (3). pp. 195-218. ISSN 0193-7235

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Abstract

The connection between athletes and technology has developed in recent years, with the focus on how lives are augmented and presented through this relationship. Building on previous reflections concerning the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to support the sometimes fractious experiences of sport migration, we suggest a need to develop our understandings of migrant athletes’ use of ICT by interrogating socially-embedded processes driving its usage. In so doing, we draw on 18 semistructured interviews with professional basketball migrants based (at the time) in the United Kingdom but whose seasonal work moves them frequently across the globe. We explore these participants’ experiences through the lens of Appadurai’s model of scapes and disjuncture. With this framework we explore themes of negotiation, need, expectation, and barriers. Consequently, we propose expanding how we understand migrant athletes’ relationships with technology.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Faulkner C, Molnar G, Kohe G. “I Just Go on Wi-Fi”: Imagining Worlds Through Professional Basketball Migrants’ Deployment of Information and Communication Technology. Journal of Sport and Social Issues. 2019;43(3):195-218. doi:10.1177/0193723519836396
Uncontrolled Keywords: 1504 Commercial Services, 1608 Sociology
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
T Technology > T Technology (General)
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV561 Sports
Divisions: Business & Management (from Sep 19)
Publisher: Sage
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Date Deposited: 07 Mar 2022 11:06
Last Modified: 07 Mar 2022 11:15
DOI or ID number: 10.1177/0193723519836396
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16461
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