Sports, Society, and Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction: Sports, Society, and Technology

   • Jennifer J. Sterling, Mary G. McDonald

   Pages 1-14

3. Practices, Productions, and Knowledges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. True Bounce: Stories of Dunlop and the Rise of Vulcanized Play

      • Carlin Wing

      Pages 17-40

   3. Manufacturing Invisibility in “the Field”: Distributed Ethics, Wearable Technologies, and the Case of Exercise Physiology

      • Andi Johnson

      Pages 41-71

   4. The Tangled Multiplicities of CTE: Scientific Uncertainty and the Infrastructures of Traumatic Brain Injury

      • Matt Ventresca

      Pages 73-98

   5. The Agency of Numbers: The Role of Metrics in Influencing the Valuation of Athletes

      • Roslyn Kerr, Christopher Rosin, Mark Cooper

      Pages 99-119

   6. The Numbers Game: Collegiate Esports and the Instrumentation of Movement Performance

      • Nicholas Taylor

      Pages 121-144

4. Bodies/Matter

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Possibilities of Feminist Technoscience Studies of Sport: Beyond Cyborg Bodies

      • Kathryn Henne

      Pages 147-174

   3. Enacting Bodies: The Multiplicity of Whey Protein and the Making of Corporealities

      • Samantha King, Gavin Weedon

      Pages 175-194

   4. The (In)Active Body Multiple: An Examination of How Prenatal Exercise ‘Matters’

      • Shannon Jette, Katelyn Esmonde

      Pages 195-217

   5. Ignorance and the Gender Binary: Resisting Complex Epistemologies of Sex and Testosterone

      • Madeleine Pape

      Pages 219-245

   6. Screening Saviors?: The Politics of Care, College Sports, and Screening Athletes for Sickle Cell Trait

      • Mary G. McDonald

      Pages 247-267

5. Back Matter

   Pages 269-282

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Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production addresses the complex entanglements of science, technology, and sporting cultures. The collection explores themes around human and non-human actants, knowledge formations and processes, and the materiality and multiplicity of bodies through an engagement with the interdisciplinary fields of Sport Studies and Science and Technology Studies. Representing a range of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary approaches, contributors interrogate the social, cultural, political, and historical intersections of an ever-expanding techno-scientific sporting landscape – from true bounce and brain trauma to exercise physiology, metrics, and esports, and from feminist technoscience, whey protein, and epigenetics to sickle cell screening and testosterone regulation.

• Sport Technology
• Sociology of Sport
• Sport, Technology and the Body
• Sports, Society, and Technology
• STS

“In this wonderfully curated collection, editors Jennifer Sterling and Mary McDonald make evident the value of science and technology studies (STS) for enriching our understanding of contemporary sporting cultures. They also show the value of sport for illuminating the complex effects of an increasingly technologized society. Provocative content and compelling methodological insights will surely help push both fields in new directions.” (Mary Louise Adams, Professor, Socio-Cultural Studies of Sport, Health and the Body, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen’s University, Canada)

• University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

  Jennifer J. Sterling

• Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

  Mary G. McDonald

Jennifer J. Sterling is a Lecturer in Sport Studies in the Department of American Studies at the University of Iowa.


Mary G. McDonald is the Homer C. Rice Chair of Sports and Society, and Professor in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institution of Technology.

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