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Tweet Out? Twitter, Archived Data, and the Social Memory of Out LGBT Athletes
The allure of Twitter data for historical analysis is heady. The volume of tweeted posts since the microblogging service was launched in 2006 represents a wealth of recent historical data as well as a deep pool of social memory offering insight into how the past circulates in the present. This article considers the promise, possibilities, and problems of accessing and analyzing Twitter data. To help illuminate the broader issues of method and methodology, a case study is used: the social memory on Twitter of the prominent Australian LGBT athlete Ian Roberts, who came out as gay in 1995, especially the ways he is evoked when other athletes come out. Via this selective emphasis, this article questions the viability for sport historians to investigate Twitter data.
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'Modest Monuments'?
The postage stamp issued by the USA in 2002 to commemorate Hawaiian athlete and cultural icon, Duke Kahanamoku, represented the culmination of a 30-year plus lobbying campaign involving a wide cross-section of interest groups. Via this prominent example, this paper examines postage stamps as an under-explored form of social memory and historical evidence and questions the weight and importance of stamps relative to other types of social memory. Intuitively, postage stamps might appear to be a relatively insignificant form of evidence; certainly, they have not been widely utilised by historians, including Pacific historians. Through an examination of the origins, semiotics and impact of the Kahanamoku stamp, this paper argues that stamps have the potential to reveal broad, underlying cultural forces and meanings, and re-evaluates their commemorative and interpretive effectiveness alongside other, complementary forms of social memory.
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The surfing Tommy Tanna
Investigates the claim that Tommy Tanna, a Pacific Islander employed as a servant in Sydney in the late 19th century, is widely credited with introducing body surfing to Australia. Argues that Tanna's contributions to the development of Australian aquatic sport is racialised and mythologised in memory. Examines the reinvigoration, development and reification of the Nimble Savage stereotype, demonstrated in the aquatic 'show spaces' of Sydney. Suggests that this discursive context enables an analysis of Tanna's representation in varying acts of social memory, and links his contributions with his Pacific origins. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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Decolonizing Dialogues: Sport, Resistance, and Australian Aboriginal Settlements
This paper seeks to extend understandings of Australian Aboriginal sport history by arguing that sport constituted a site of resistance for Aboriginal athletes in controlled settlements. While examples of overt resistance are rare, opportunities for covert, everyday resistance abounded. For activities performed beyond the notice of settlement administrators provided safe spaces for identity assertion and for expression of anger, dissatisfaction, grievance, unhappiness, or other sense of injustice. Sport, although publicly performed, was a potential site for acts of everyday resistance. This paper explores resistance through oppositional acts of stealing, drinking, and playing-to-rule, which are explored through “hidden transcripts. “ Research for this paper focuses on Queensland, a state with a uniquely odious record on Aboriginal affairs. By focusing on sport as a site of resistance, it offers new insight into the sociocultural practice and meanings of sport in Aboriginal communities historically and, more broadly, on decolonizing sport history.
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Black and Proud
On April 17, 1993, after an Australian Football League match between St. Kilda and Collingwood marred by racist chanting, victorious St. Kilda star Nicky Winmar faced the opposition fans, lifted his shirt and, pointing to his chest, declared, \"I'm black and I'm proud to be black.\" The moment was immortalized by photographers Wayne Ludbey and John Feder and forced Australian football and its fans to confront deeply held prejudices. This chronicle documents the events that led to that pivotal moment, narrating the stories of the players and photographers and their experiences in the lead-up to and aftermath of the match. This is a fascinating, thought-provoking account of the interrelation between sport and race in Australia and is essential reading for any sports enthusiast or student of Australian history.
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Sport History in the Digital Era
From statistical databases to story archives, from fan sites to the real-time reactions of Twitter-empowered athletes, the digital communication revolution has changed the way fans relate to LeBron's latest triple double or Tom Brady's last second touchdown pass. In this volume, contributors from Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States analyze the parallel transformation in the field of sport history, showing the ways powerful digital tools raise vital philosophical, epistemological, ontological, methodological, and ethical questions for scholars and students alike.Chapters consider how philosophical and theoretical understandings of the meaning of history influence engagement with digital history, and conceptualize the relationship between history making and the digital era. As the writers show, digital media's mostly untapped potential for studying the recent past via media like blogs, chat rooms, and gambling sites forge a symbiosis between sports and the internet while offering historians new vistas to explore and utilize. In this new era, digital history becomes a dynamic site of enquiry and discussion where scholars enter into a give-and-take with individuals and invite their audience to grapple with, rather than passively absorb, evidence. Timely and provocative, Sport History in the Digital Era affirms how the information revolution has transformed sport and sport history--and shows the road ahead. Contributors include Douglas Booth, Mike Cronin, Martin Johnes, Matthew Klugman, Geoffery Z. Kohe, Tara Magdalinski, Fiona McLachlan, Bob Nicholson, Rebecca Olive, Gary Osmond, Murray G. Phillips, Stephen Robertson, Synthia Sydnor, Holly Thorpe, and Wayne Wilson.
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Tensions, Complexities, and Compromises
Researching and writing about Aboriginal sport history is one of the most challenging, and rewarding, opportunities of our scholarly careers. It is challenging because non-Aboriginal people must engage with ontological, epistemological, theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues and ideas that often exist outside traditional Western conventions. Challenges for male scholars escalate in attempting to represent the experiences of Aboriginal sportswomen. Not only do we need to engage with racial theories and gender analysis, as Susan Birrell has done throughout her career, but it involves consciously creating narratives from the outside as non-Aboriginal men with all the boundaries and limitations this situation imposes. The final layer of complexity is that Aboriginal history-making involves appropriate recognition of, and involvement with, Aboriginal people, and creating reciprocal relationships and practices that are community-driven. We address these issues through a case study of the Marching Girls from the Aboriginal settlement of Cherbourg in Queensland, Australia.
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Blown out of the Water: The 1933 New Caledonian water polo visit to Australia and demise of a racial stereotype
In March 1933, a water polo team from New Caledonia, composed mainly of Melanesians, arrived in Sydney to compete against a New South Wales representative side in a series of three test matches. It was the first international team from that sport to arrive in Australia. While the 1930s marked a high point in the globalisation of sport, the significance of the tour lies less in its international precedence and more in its racial dimensions. This paper argues that initial press constructions of the visitors revived a longstanding stereotype about the supposed natural aquatic abilities of Pacific Islanders that was not realised in the competition outcome. As a result, the visit can be seen as marking the symbolic death of the 'nimble savage' aquatic stereotype.
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Black and proud : the story of an iconic AFL photo
On April 17, 1993, after an Australian Football League match between St. Kilda and Collingwood marred by racist chanting, victorious St. Kilda star Nicky Winmar faced the opposition fans, lifted his shirt and, pointing to his chest, declared, \"I'm black and I'm proud to be black.\" The moment was immortalized by photographers Wayne Ludbey and John Feder and forced Australian football and its fans to confront deeply held prejudices. This chronicle documents the events that led to that pivotal moment, narrating the stories of the players and photographers and their experiences in the lead-up to and aftermath of the match. This is a fascinating, thought-provoking account of the interrelation between sport and race in Australia and is essential reading for any sports enthusiast or student of Australian history.
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