Michael Silk
@michael_silk
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social scientist, failed footballer
Joined August 2012
RT @PhilHubbard1: Ahead of the Paris Olympics, and stories of sex workers again being displaced, we have published a piece about the impact….
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RT @BU_SPARC: Great piece by 2 of our @BU_SPARC members today . @EmjKavanagh @sportinaus challenging the sports industry to do more to add….
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Online gender-based violence has grown more prevalent in line with the rising profile of women's sport and female athletes. Are content producers doing enough to tackle the problem?
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RT @BU_SPARC: Looking forward to a good discussion on Monday when @BU_SPARC welcome @ultreia1x Dr Andrea Bundon (UBC, Canada) and @DrEmmaPu….
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Delighted to be invited to speak at this event at Loughborough London with the Sports Media Identity Network (still time to submit abstracts) @BU_SPARC @DrEmmaPullen .
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RT @radarlboro: Disability, Empowerment & Paralympic Media: Thurs 10th March, 6.30-8. @CHRIS_SAMUEL_, Sophie Hoyle, @DrEmmaPullen + @wj_sam….
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Great insight from our @BU_SPARC colleagues: Women's sport is on the way up – but more needs to be done to secure its future via @ConversationUK.
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Women’s sport has made leaps and bounds but there is still a lot of work to be done.
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Great to see a number of @BU_SPARC contributions to this volume . timely & reflective perspectives from leading scholars from across the globe . well done to those who pulled this together in such a timely manner @dan_jackson9 @BurntO_Butterwo & others.
⚠️Hot off the press: Olympic and Paralympic Analysis report!. 110 scholars from around the globe with unique perspectives on #Tokyo2020 spanning everything from media, money, activism, and equality. 🔗 Web: ⬇️ PDF:
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Following Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, new @BU_SPARC article . @BU_Research.
In September’s issue, authors @DrEmmaPullen @dan_jackson9 @pdhowe9 @michael_silk discuss the evolution of Paralympic media representation and identify three disability narratives that complicate the ‘supercrip’
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Delighted for @BU_SPARC to join @AliCenter & over 150 global experts in supporting athlete rights to social protest.
When the sport community speaks out for social change, the world listens. Athletes, 150+ global experts, and leading sport and social change orgs joined #AmEndRule50 letter in support of athletes' right to protest at @Olympics & @Paralympics #Rule50 .
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RT @AliCenter: When the sport community speaks out for social change, the world listens. Athletes, 150+ global experts, and leading sport a….
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Great opportunity to join this project with @DrEmmaPullen at Loughborough . @BU_SPARC Looking forward to being part of the team.
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Write up on new @BU_SPARC project with @DrEmmaPullen.
New research by @LboroSSEHS' @DrEmmaPullen will investigate gender equality & inclusion in Para sport media. Funded by @ahrcpress, the project will examine the online and digital media content around the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Read more below 👇.
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Pleased this is now out @BU_SPARC @ATManley . 50 free e-prints . get in quick! Chinese Perceptions of Overseas Cultural Heritage: Emotive Existential Authenticity, Exoticism and Experiential Tourism
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This paper draws upon an extensive evidence base to analyze Chinese perceptions of Western cultural heritage and capture dominant reflections on an overseas destination as portrayed through selecte...
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Great to see this published . @BU_Research @BU_SPARC.
Communication & Sport is pleased to announce an important and timely issue of the journal, on Sport Communication and Social Justice. Thank you to special editors @dan_jackson9, @DrEmmaPullen, @michael_silk and @filippotrevisan for their hard work:
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Great to see this in the latest edition of Cultural Studies @Routledge_MandC and continue collaborations with @DrEmmaPullen @BU_SPARC @BU_Research .
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The Paralympic games is a pedagogic, pervasive, political, powerful, and ‘popular’ cultural site where the heightened visibility of disability bring into being specific forms of disability as they ...
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Delighted this one came out today in City & Community @CiCoJournal @ATManley Remembering the City: Changing Conceptions of Community in Urban China
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