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    Imagined communities of fandom: sport, spectatorship, meaning and alienation in late capitalism
    (Sport in Society, 2020-01-01) Kalman-Lamb, N
    © 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article accounts for the allure of sports spectatorship in late capitalism by theorizing spectatorial communities as imagined communities. Building on the work of Benedict Anderson and others, and drawing on discourse around fandom in popular culture and the media, it argues that imagined communities of fandom function as sites of meaning and community within the alienating and individualist context of late capitalism. These communities are invented and continuously rehearsed through fetish spectacle and ritualistic practice and produce Manichean understandings of social relations that can lead to marginalization and violence.
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    Listening to the literature: a case for centering writing in critical sociology of sport pedagogy
    (Sport, Education and Society, 2019-07-23) Kalman-Lamb, N
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    Sports vision training: A review of the state-of-the-art in digital training techniques
    (International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2018-01-01) Appelbaum, LG; Erickson, G
    © 2016, © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Athletes need excellent vision to perform well in their sports, and many athletes have turned to vision training programs as a way to augment their traditional training regimen. The growing practice of ‘sports vision training’ relies on the notion that practice with demanding visual perceptual, cognitive, or oculomotor tasks can improve the ability to process and respond to what is seen, thereby improving sport performance. This enterprise is not necessarily new, but has been advanced greatly in the past few years by new digital technology that can be deployed during natural training activities, by perceptual-learning-inspired training programs, and by virtual reality simulations that can recreate and augment sporting contexts to promote certain sports-specific visual and cognitive abilities. These improved abilities may, in turn, instill a competitive advantage on the playing field, underscoring the potential value of these approaches. This article reviews emerging approaches, technologies and trends in sports vision training. Where available, critical review of supporting research is provided.