Routledge Handbook of Sport Fans and Fandom

Herausgeber: Sarver Coombs, Danielle; Osborne, Anne C

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to explore the full significance of sport fans and fandom from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, across different sports, communities and levels of engagement. It gives a comprehensive overview of the undeniable economic and cultural influence of sport industries for which fans are the driving force.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781032224350
• ISBN-10: 1032224355
• Artikelnr.: 70345898

Autorenporträt

Danielle Sarver Coombs is Professor in the School of Media and Journalism at Kent State University, USA. She has published extensively around politics, sports, and the politics of sport. Anne C. Osborne is Professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, USA. Her research and teaching focus on gender, media, and sport.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Editors' Introduction
Part I: What Is a Fan and How Do We Know?
2. Imagining the Citizen-Fan: Sport Metaphor in American Politics and Implications for Democratic Culture
3. Using Sport Fandom to Fulfill Personal and Societal Needs
4. Experiences of Female Fans in a Female-Defined Sport: Central
Valued and Visible
5. Understanding Demand for Women's Sports Begins with Understanding Men's Sports History
6. Comparing the Cost of Fandom in European Football
7. Building Civic Identity Around a Suburban Ballpark District
8. Studying Sports Fans Through Ethnographic Method: Walk a Mile in Their Shoes
9. Media Coverage of Sports Fans: A Framing Analysis
10. Rebounding as Praxis: Interrogating Positionality and Proximity in Sporting Fieldwork
11. Should We Admire Athletes?
12. Centering Race in Sport Fan Research: A Call to Action
Part II: Who Fans Are
13. Sport Fandom: The Complexity of Performative Role Identities
14. Women Sports Fans
15. The Sports Fanship Lifecycle
16. The Olympics Sports Fan: A Distinctive Demographic
17. Para Sport Fandom: Fans and Followers of Paralympians
18. English Football
Sexuality
and Homophobia: Gay Fans' Perspectives on Governance and Visibility
19. Photography
Autoethnography and Mapping Sporting Transformations: A Discussion of Stuart Roy Clarke's Work on British Football
20. The Ecosystem of Football Supporter Groups in Brazil: Traditions
Innovation and Hybridity
21. Athletes with Disabilities and their Use of Social Media to Cultivate Fandom
22. Engaging the Non-Local Sport Fan
Part III: What Fans Do
23. Digital Sport Fandom
24. Online Performances of Fandom: Selective Self-Presentation
Perceived Affordances
and Parasocial Interactions on Social Media
25. The Construction of Sports Fandom by Sports Betting Companies
26. Fandom in the Realm of Fantasy Sport
27. Understanding Sport Videogames: The Extensions of Fan
28. Sports Fans Hunt for Women's Games: Beyond News Media Coverage
29. Twitter Discourse in the Southeastern Conference: The Nick Saban Effect
30. Football Fan Reactions to Video Assistant Referee: No More Hand of God
31. Reconfiguring Transnational Fan Experience Through Digital Media: European Football in China
32. The Commodification and Mediatization of Fandom: Creating Executive Fandom
33. Football Fans and Food: Feeding the Desire
34. Fan Reactions to Athlete Activism: "Stick to Sports"