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Darts' rise is a cautionary tale for sport in a commercialised world

  • Written by The Conversation
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Commercialisation has dramatically transformed the world sporting landscape in ways that are difficult to comprehend. While the promotion of sport has historically focused on participation and the educational value it could serve, today its promotion is fuelled by spectatorship and commodification.

This changing meaning of sport is...

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ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, June/July 2015

  • Written by The Conversation

I must begin this Australian Twitter News Index update with an apology – we’ve had to skip May due to unforeseen server maintenance, and this has also affected part of our data-gathering for June. Consequently, this post covers the period of both June and July 2015, with future updates returning to a more regular monthly pattern again.

I...

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Newspoll shows tight race in Canning, with big swing to Labor

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Following the death in late July of WA Liberal MP Don Randall, a by-election was ordered in his seat of Canning on the 19 September. A Newspoll has the Liberals just ahead by 51-49, representing an 11% swing to Labor since the 2013 election. This Newspoll was conducted last Saturday and Sunday from a sample of 500; this sample size is small for...

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  1. Diving for treasure to help protect the world’s great reefs
  2. Deflategate has never been about footballs---so what, exactly, is the NFL up to?
  3. Elon Musk’s Brave New World: it worked for Henry Ford; why not Tesla?
  4. A hungrier, wealthier, choosier, smarter, riskier world: five challenges for Australian agriculture
  5. New calculation suggests China's greenhouse emissions have been overestimated
  6. Hockey's IP inquiry another opportunity likely to be missed
  7. Are vaccines making viruses more dangerous?
  8. Art, activism and our creative future
  9. NAPLAN data and school funding: a dangerous link
  10. I WANT MY iPAD! Are our kids getting addicted to technology?
  11. How did Jupiter and Saturn form? The answer may lie with the humble pebble
  12. Why Sebastian Coe must form a truth commission on doping in athletics
  13. Islamic climate declaration converts religious principles into greener practice
  14. Confessions of a Justified Sinner captures the modern condition perfectly
  15. Corrupt, violent and overcrowded: inside Latin America's prisons
  16. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. proves spy spoofs are back in business
  17. IWF's efforts to remove child porn from the web won't tackle paedophile networks -- but it's still important
  18. A well-functioning cabinet – who are they kidding?
  19. Turning a page: downsizing the campus book collections
  20. Who says libraries are dying? They are evolving into spaces for innovation
  21. Cynicism about mobile advertising is greatly misplaced
  22. Our obsession with hereditary cancers didn't start when we discovered the breast cancer gene
  23. A melting Arctic demands more – not less – research on earth science
  24. Ray Tensing was trained, equipped much like 32,000 other campus cops
  25. The fate of the metalheads
  26. Divided Thai nation vulnerable to violence on multiple fronts
  27. Citizen scientists discover what's out there
  28. Dwarf galaxies feel the blast from larger neighbours
  29. More than naming and shaming needed to stop corporate tax avoidance
  30. Bangkok bombing blame game speaks volumes about the state of Thai politics
  31. Universities remain a hive of inequality – they must do more to attract the excluded
  32. Current alternatives won't light up Britain's broadband blackspots
  33. Patients will resist medical record sharing if NHS bosses ignore their privacy fears
  34. Bad news for Putin as support for war flags beyond Russia's 'troll farms'
  35. Heydon will consider bias claims on Friday
  36. The drug flibanserin is approved for the treatment of low sexual desire in women
  37. What lies behind the hype and the hope of stem cell research and therapy
  38. A beginner's guide to understanding stem cells
  39. Forget plagiarism: there's a new and bigger threat to academic integrity
  40. The risks attached to South Africa's nuclear energy strategy
  41. Why South Africa's economy is likely to grow more slowly than its potential
  42. We need a new relationship with urban noise
  43. Queensland's domestic violence strategy may finally put action to the test
  44. How a new test is revolutionising what we know about viruses in our midst
  45. Brandis' changes to environmental laws will defang the watchdogs
  46. IHEU open letter to Prime Minister and President of Bangladesh
  47. Remember the Pacific's people when we remember the war in the Pacific
  48. Weather forecasting is about to get even better
  49. The challenge of managing Earth's new economic frontier: our oceans
  50. Forget the hostile Congress – Obama can cut global climate deals on his own terms
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