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Women, sport and new media technologies:Derby grrrls online
Sport has long been viewed as a public âgoodâ â a space for the creation and enactment of the âgood, healthy citizenâ. Yet this public âgoodâ has also been gendered masculine: competitive, public and âtoughâ, with womenâs participation historically marginal to menâs. In Australia in recent years, the participation of women and girls has fluctuated, with decline or stagnation in more traditional organised sports (netball, basketball) and growth in other areas, such as roller derby and football. However, womenâs sports are still largely invisible in the popular sport media. In this chapter we focus on roller derby as one particular womenâs sport that has undergone a global revival, mobilised through ânewâ youth-oriented media forms. We examine four diverse websites that form part of the âsocial webâ of derby: two official league sites, a blog and a Facebook group. The reinvention of roller derby is intimately connected to the alternative mediated spaces made possible by the social web. Roller derby players and organisers have used online spaces for various ends: to promote the sport community, to make visible the relations of power between those involved, to create and maintain boundaries of inclusion and exclusion within the sport, and to express âcreativeâ aspects of identity. This chapter provides examples of the strategies and tactics used to establish and maintain roller derby as a âwomenâs onlyâ sport and some of the challenges and possibilities inherent in this highly mediated space.No Full Tex
Low-Temperature Sintering of Single-Phase, High-Entropy Carbide Ceramics
Dense (Hf, Zr, Ti, Ta, Nb)C high-entropy ceramics were produced by hot pressing (HP) of carbide powders synthesized by carbothermal reduction (CTR). The relative density increased from 95% to 99.3% as the HP temperature increased from 1750°C to 1900°C. Nominally phase pure ceramics with the rock salt structure had grain sizes ranging from 0.6 ”m to 1.2 ”m. The mixed carbide powders were synthesized by high-energy ball milling (HEBM) followed by CTR at 1600°C, which resulted in an average particle size of ~100 nm and an oxygen content of 0.8 wt%. Low sintering temperature, high relative densities, and fine grain sizes were achieved through the use of synthesized powders. These are the first reported results for low-temperature densification and fine microstructure of high-entropy carbide ceramics
Densification, Microstructure, and Mechanical Properties of ZrC-SiC Ceramics
ZrC-SiC ceramics were fabricated by high-energy ball milling and reactive hot pressing of ZrH2, carbon black, and varying amounts of SiC. The ceramics were composed of nominally pure ZrC containing 0 to 30 vol% SiC particles. The relative density increased as SiC content increased, from 96.8% for nominally pure ZrC to 99.3% for ZrC-30 vol% SiC. As SiC content increased from 0 to 30 vol%, Young\u27s modulus increased from 404 ± 11 to 420 ± 9 GPa and Vickers hardness increased from 18.5 ± 0.7 to 23.0 ± 0.5 GPa due to a combination of the higher relative density of ceramics with higher SiC content and the higher Young\u27s modulus and hardness of SiC compared to ZrC. Flexure strength was 308 ± 11 MPa for pure ZrC, but increased to 576 ± 49 MPa for a SiC content of 30 vol%. Fracture toughness was 2.3 ± 0.2 MPa·m1/2 for pure ZrC and increased to about 3.0 ± 0.1 MPa·m1/2 for compositions containing SiC additions. The combination of high-energy ball milling and reactive hot pressing was able to produce ZrC-SiC ceramics with sub-micron grain sizes and high relative densities with higher strengths than previously reported for similar materials