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Michael Silk is a Professor and Deputy Dean (Research & Professional Practice) in the Faculty of Management. His research and scholarship is interdisciplinary and focuses on the relationships between sport & physical activity (physical culture), the governance of bodies, mediated (sporting) spectacles, identities and urban spaces. Brad Millington is a Lecturer in the Department for Health at the Univesity of Bath. His research is focussed on how technology has helped shape sporting practices in different historical eras, in sport and physical activity policy, and in the meanings people ascribe to their sport and physical activity experiences. Emma Rich is a Reader in the Department for Health at the University of Bath. Her research examines sport, physical activity and physical/health education with a specific interest in digital health technologies (e.g. mobile and digital health, big data, wearable technologies). Anthony Bush is a Senior Lecturer in the Department for Health at the University of Bath. He is an interdisciplinary scholar specialising on issues concerning the physically active body in a myriad of spaces and sites including, but not limited to, the elite sporting context.
Collectively, the contributions in this anthology provide refreshing new insights and perspectives on the digital shift that international leisure studies are confronted with. The topics addressed here will be important to examine in other sports-related scholarly fields in the coming years. The individual chapters in the book are far-sighted, creative and valuable contributions to the advancement of sport and leisure as academic fields. - Anne Tjonndal, Nordic Sport Science Forum
