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0000-0002-5358-827X
Current Organisation
Monash University - Caulfield Campus
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Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2001
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-04-2011
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Date: 03-2009
DOI: 10.1123/SSJ.26.1.89
Abstract: MyFootballClub (MFC) is a popular computer game, Web site, online networking experiment, business model, and an actual soccer club. This article uses MFC to address the question of how networked media sport is reshaping the media sports cultural complex (Rowe, 2004). Our aim is to show how the professionalization and mediatization of sport has created a longing to reconstruct a kind of communitas around supporter participation in the ownership and running of their team. We conclude by suggesting that it is now time to think less in terms of the longstanding relationship between sport and media, and more about sport as media given the increasing interpenetration of digital media content, sport, and networked information and communications technologies.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-1998
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2010
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 24-02-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1998
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-09-2008
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2005
Abstract: This article examines how the empirical study of football fans can inform contemporary debates in critical audience research, particularly around issues of pleasure and cultural citizenship. In January 2003, West Ham United signs Lee Bowyer a controversial move, given the accusations of racism surrounding the player. Although football is often ch ioned as a potent arena for debate and negotiation in cultural politics, Web-based responses to Bowyer among West Hamfans demonstrate how these issues can be subordinated within essentially conservative discourses of belonging. This is due, in part, to structural similarities between fandom and populism, stressing negative modes of identification and desire to return to a mythic past. Consequently, pleasure and politics coexist but do not meet in a West Ham supporting vernacular that has little to say about racism.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2010
Abstract: The website MyFootballClub offers a novel experience for football fans. Through the design and operation of a website, it attempts to reinvigorate fan participation in a heavily mediated, multibillion-dollar global industry. Charging a membership fee of £35 (47), MFC purchased a controlling stake in a non-league English football club, with power over management decisions handed to online members. Attracting more than 30,000 members from over 70 nations, this exercise in online ‘football democracy’ is significant for more than its novelty value and the spawning of similar exercises in other countries. MFC offers an important case study in which ‘media space’ is privileged above all others, claiming to resurrect football-based organic community bonds that were supposedly disrupted by media, but doing so within media. MFC demonstrates how media sport synthesizes apparent contradictions, so that members can recreate football-as-folk-culture fantasies through the processes of mediation and commodification that are otherwise blamed for killing ‘the people’s game’.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.EJPS.2018.02.025
Abstract: The development of methods to increase the bioavailability of drugs is of great interest, especially for those which are poorly soluble or permeable. One of the strategies to enhance the solubility (which in turn has the potential of increase bioavailability) of drugs is the use of additives in the formulation process, so that the drug can stay supersaturated in biological fluids for a period of time long enough to allow absorption. The use of polymers as pharmaceutical excipients in order to stabilize the supersaturation of drugs is common practice. In this work, the ability of different polymers of vinylpyrrolidone (K-12, K-17, K-25, K-29/32, K-90) and a copolymer of vinylpyrrolidone and vinylacetate (S-630) have been tested for their impact on the supersaturation of drugs. Sixteen drugs of different chemical nature have been selected, and analyzed using the Cheqsol method. The results of the drug alone, and of physical mixtures with the different polymers at several polymer:drug ratios have been compared in terms of supersaturation extent and duration. It has been observed that acidic compounds displayed enhanced solubility in different ways: sometimes the supersaturated state of the drug is maintained for a long time, due to the precipitation of an amorphous solid, as determined by X-ray diffraction studies on other occasions supersaturation increases but only for a short time, compared to the drug alone, and then the drug precipitates to a crystalline form. Only a few basic drugs displayed enhanced solubility in the presence of PVP polymers, in contrast to acidic compounds.
Publisher: KOME Journal
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1996
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-12-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2006
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United States of America
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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