Spectatorship &
Mediated Experience
How technologies reshape the relationship between events, audiences and participation.
Media · Technology · Innovation
LJ
FILOTRANI
Exploring how emerging technologies are changing the ways we create, experience and participate in media.
Current research / 2026
What happens when spectators can't see the whole event?
My current work examines spectatorship in augmented-reality sport: the gap between what players perceive, what audiences can see, and how technology might bring those experiences together.
Field research · HADO World Cup, Shanghai · November 2026
Explore the research →Research
What I'm
interested in.
Spectatorship &
Emerging Media
& Technology
XR, virtual production and emerging forms of media creation and experience.
Innovation &
Media Industries
How technologies are adopted, resisted and incorporated into professional practice.
Selected work
2026 / Journal article
De-Professionalisation and Unrecognised Newswork in UK Esports Journalism
Journalism and Media
Projects
Ideas in
practice.
HADO
Shanghai / 2026
HADO World Cup
Research · XR Sport · SpectatorshipAR
Research / Interaction
Augmented Spectator Experience
AR · Sports · InteractionMedia practice → research → emerging technology
About
From newsroom
to research.
Before researching the future of media, I spent years making it.
My work brings together professional experience in journalism and digital production, senior leadership in higher education, and research into emerging technologies, spectatorship and innovation.
The Guardian · Financial Times · Higher Education · International research
About LJ →Currently.
ResearchingAugmented spectatorship & AR sport
WritingVirtual production & emerging media
Working onHADO World Cup research
Working acrossChina · UK · Italy
Connect
Let's make
something
interesting.
Research collaborations · Speaking · Consultancy · Media