Digital Innovation in Sports

The following papers are the core literature in the course. In addition to this literature, a list of additional papers will be made available during the course.

Bentvelzen, M., Savino, G. L., Niess, J., Masthoff, J., & Wozniak, P. W. (2022). Tailor my zwift: how to design for amateur sports in the virtual world. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(MHCI), 1-23.

Goebeler, L., Standaert, W., & Xiao, X. (2021). Hybrid sport configurations: The intertwining of the physical and the digital. In Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Gruettner, Arne. What We Know and What We Do Not Know About Digital Technologies in the Sports Industry. (2019). AMCIS2019.pdf

Henfridsson, O. (2020). Scaling digital enterprises. In Handbook of Digital Innovation. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Lee Ludvigsen, J. A., & Petersen-Wagner, R. (2023). From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society. Leisure Studies, 42(4), 615-632.

Maiden, N., Lockerbie, J., Zachos, K., Wolf, A., & Brown, A. (2023). Designing new digital tools to augment human creative thinking at work: An application in elite sports coaching. Expert Systems, 40(3), e13194.

Mulvenna, C., Bloyce, D., Twist, C., & Thomson, E. (2024). ‘I code as much as I can because you never know what they might ask for’. The role of the coach in Performance Analysis: The view of the analyst. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 17479541241270426.

Nieborg, D. B., Poell, T., & van Dijck, J. (2022). Platforms and platformization. The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy. London: Sage, 29-49.

Qi, Y., Sajadi, S. M., Baghaei, S., Rezaei, R., & Li, W. (2024). Digital technologies in sports: Opportunities, challenges, and strategies for safeguarding athlete wellbeing and competitive integrity in the digital era. Technology in Society, 102496.

Read, D., & Smith, A. C. (2023). Data as capital and ethical implications in digital sport business models. Convergence, 29(5), 1389-1408.

Svensson, D., & Sörlin, S. (2019). The ‘physiologization’of skiing: the lab as an obligatory passage point for elite athletes?. Sport in Society, 22(9), 1574-1588.

Westmattelmann, D., Grotenhermen, J. G., Sprenger, M., & Schewe, G. (2021). The show must go on-virtualisation of sport events during the COVID-19 pandemic. European Journal of Information Systems, 30(2), 119-136.

Xiao, X., Hedman, J., Tan, F. T. C., Tan, C. W., Lim, E. T., Clemenson, T., … & Hillegersberg, J. V. (2017). Sports digitalization: An overview and a research agenda. In International Conference On Information (ICIS). Association For Information System.