This book provides a sample of studies and concepts created within the project Media ENriched Sport ExperienceS (MENSES). A project powered by Hilversum Media Campus, ZIGGO and Breda University of Applied Sciences. MENSES aims to create new media enriched sport experiences, by means of introducing innovative digital concepts combining media entertainment and live sport content. It wants to share building stones and blueprints to be accessed in Hilversum. As such it will help organizations to answer the question how live and broadcasted sport experiences can be enriched by means of new digital strategies. By combining interaction, transformation and data enrichment, the mediated and live sport events should be turned into a memorable sport experience
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Sports are activities enjoyed by many across the globe, regardless of age. The existence and promotion of youth sports has often been based on various assumptions about its value and role in society. Sports participation is assumed to be fun and good and is assumed to contribute to the development of young people. As a result, sports are often seen as an essential part of life for youth. Participation in sports and physical activity is assumed to help young people to develop in a context in which they are able to learn important positive societal values (Fraser-Thomas et al., 2005; Holt, 2008). Although there is a widespread belief in the positive dimensions of sports participation for young people, there is a need for research and theory that identifies and critically looks at the processes through which sports participation by youth is experienced and shapes their lives (Coakley, 2011). I return to this critical perspective after I elaborate on the ways sports are viewed as important effective activities for positive youth development.
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Media ENriched Sport ExperienceS (MENSES) creates media enriched sport experiences by introducing innovative digital concepts that combine media entertainment and live sport content What would you do to increase the experience of a live sport event? Do you think it is needed? Would you start with the visitors of the live event or the people that attend the live event through media? Why not connect the live audience with the people watching it through a medium to create a better overall experience? Media ENriched Sport ExperienceS aims to help organisations to answer the question of how live and broadcasted sport experiences can be enriched by means of new digital strategies. By combining interaction, transformation and data enrichment, the mediated and live sport events could be turned into memorable sport experiences. With a multidisciplinary team of professionals and (over 300) students, which reflects on the media knowledge on the one hand and on the leisure and live events knowledge on the other hand, as well as the skills to measure experiences, 50 concepts will be created and tested.Partners: VodafoneZIGGOCity of HilversumMediaPerspectivesUnitedBeeld & GeluidSailing Innovation CenterHuddersfield Town