Our current research involves us mapping every venue from every Summer Olympic Games. From there we can layer information such as infrastructure and population density to understand the various factors which drive the location of different venues. We are also looking at establishing a catalog of venue layouts. For instance, Helsinki in 1952 shows […]
The link is to a site that has many images of the infrastructure built for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The images show the conditions of the structures as they existed for the games and as they exist now. The stadium has gone through a few phases of redevelopment, but most of the buildings only […]
What can a stadium be used for once it no longer is a venue to watch sports or other forms of entertainment? Can it serve as a community center for the future providing a central gathering space to buy, sell, and socialize? Can ti serve as a community garden?
http://img.ezinemark.com/imagemanager2/files/30004252/2011/05/2011-05-27-16-35-56-10-tiger-woods-choked-up-after-winning-the-2006-briti.jpeg Sports journalism seems to be the journalism which accepts its story-telling roles and partnerships with advertising and entertainment. Yet it still suggest that cultural and moral values are alluded in sports reporting. The implication that sports reporting emphasizes storytelling and plot over impartial truth telling isparticularly interesting in contrast to other forms of journalistic endeavors . For sports […]
Beijing Olympics Broadcasting Report Lots of good stats on viewership and the media methods at the Beijing Olympics. Most interesting is the fact that YouTube was used to broadcast to countries who didn’t have a major service provider. People from other countries were blocked from those channels. This could mean in the future that information […]