From Football to Footbyte: new "architectures" in the context of the technologies implemented in this sport

Abstract

Traditional football remodels its physical, emotional and symbolic architectures with the frequent implementation of new information and communication technologies. There have been many justifications for the increasingly incisive interventions of bytes and algorithmic systems for the production of digital data, especially those that refer to greater fairness in the game and, consequently, the reduction of damage. The expression footbyte demarcates this era in which the machine assumes a significant portion of the arbitration, further evidencing the sensory limitations of humans. The post-human "game" that this sport becomes resizes what we call our "architectures of experience, of the gaze and of decisions". The ways of interacting with the game are being largely modified by the high-tech flow of images, sounds, and platforms, which invite us to incessantly and unsettling zoom. Who is right at the whistle? Man or machine? Is it possible to achieve harmony and full justice through this coexistence? Questions and answers that, since 2009, we have sought to contextualize, in order to contribute to these inherent and important issues in the dynamics of football/footbyte.