Sports events: from Big Brother to Brecht Brother

Authors

  • Hugo Rodolfo Lovisolo Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-2593.organicom.2011.139107

Keywords:

Sports spectacle. Communication. Social capital. Trust.

Abstract

In this essay, the author uses the opportunity of the mega-events that will be held in Brazil to relate the sports spectacles to the simultaneous criticism of the democracy and of lack of involvement and creativity as central themes of sustainable and inclusive development, social capital, trust and generation of productive and social arrangements. At the intersection of theoretical approaches of specific stories, criticism and proposals, the author suggests that the field of mega-events could be both subject-matter of analysis of social capital and trust and their own generator. The author also suggests that the areas of social communication and physical education could play a relevant role not only in the field of generation of knowledge about such problems, but also in sports, institutional and communicative practices, contributing to the increase of social capital and trust.

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Author Biography

  • Hugo Rodolfo Lovisolo, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
    Doutor e mestre em Antropologia Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Pós-doutorado em Ciências dos Esportes pela Universidade do Porto (Portugal). Graduado em Sociologia pela Universidad de Buenos Aires. Professor adjunto da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj) e do Mestrado em Desenvolvimento Social do Centro Universitário Augusto Motta (Unisuam).

Published

2011-12-26

How to Cite

LOVISOLO, Hugo Rodolfo. Sports events: from Big Brother to Brecht Brother. Organicom, São Paulo, Brasil, v. 8, n. 15, p. 81–91, 2011. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2238-2593.organicom.2011.139107. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/organicom/article/view/139107.. Acesso em: 23 may. 2024.