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Subject(s)

• Cheerleading [Browse]
• Mass media and sports [Browse]
• Sports spectators [Browse]

Editor

• Coombs, Danielle Sarver [Browse]
• Osborne, Anne C. (Anne Cunningham) [Browse]

Series

Routledge international handbooks. [More in this series]

Summary note

"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. The book examines different theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of fans, including typologies of fandom, and presents cutting-edge discussion across broad thematic areas such as performance and identity, the business of fandom, and fandom and media. It considers the experiences of diverse and marginalised fan groups, with an emphasis on intersectional analysis, and shines new light on key contemporary themes such as fan activism, violence and deviance, mobility and migration, and the transformative effects of digital and social media. This volume includes chapters by many of the leading scholars responsible for having laid the foundation for sport fan research as well as early-career scholars who examine the newest developments in media technologies, legalized betting, gaming, and fantasy sports. Including perspectives from disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, management, economics, and media studies, this book is essential reading for anybody interested in the study of sport and wider society or fans and subcultures more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Editors' introduction / Danielle Sarver Coombs and Anne C. Osborne
• Part I: What is a fan and how do we know?
• Imagining the citizen-fan : sport metaphor in American politics and implications for democratic culture / Michael Butterworth
• Using sport fandom to fulfill personal and societal needs / Daniel L. Wann
• Experiences of female fans in a female-defined sport : central, valued and visible / Toni Bruce and Margaret Henley
• Understanding demand for women's sports begins with understanding men's sports history / David Berri
• Comparing the cost of fandom in European football / Selçuk Özaydın and Cem Tinaz
• Building civic identity around a suburban ballpark district / Tim Kellison and Beth A. Cianfrone
• Studying sports fans through ethnographic method : walk a mile in their shoes / Jessica Richards, Keith Parry and Daniela Spanjaard
• Media coverage of sports fans : a framing analysis / Mark Turner
• Rebounding as praxis : interrogating positionality and proximity in sporting fieldwork / Courtney M. Cox
• Should we admire athletes? / Ben Bradley
• Centering race in sport fan research: a call to action / Anne C. Osborne and Danielle Sarver Coombs
• Part II: Who fans are
• Sport fandom : the complexity of performative role identities / Shannon Kerwin and Larena Hoeber
• Women sports fans / Katharine Jones, Stacey Pope and Kim Toffoletti
• The sports fanship lifecycle / Irene I. van Driel, Walter Gantz and Lawrence A. Wenner
• The Olympics sports fan : a distinctive demographic / Andrew C. Billings, Samuel Hakim and Qingru Xu
• Para sport fandom : fans and followers of paralympians / Linda K. Fuller
• English football, sexuality, and homophobia : gay fans' perspectives on governance and visibility / David Letts and Rory Magrath
• Photography, autoethnography & mapping sporting transformations : a discussion of Stuart Roy Clarke's work on British football / John Williams
• The ecosystem of football supporter groups in Brazil : traditions, innovation, and hybridity / Ana Carolina Vimieiro
• Disabled athletes' use of social media to cultivate fandom / Joshua R. Pate and Robin Hardin
• Engaging the non-local sport fan / Dorothy Collins.
• Part III: What fans do
• Digital sport fandom / Heather Kennedy, Josh Gonzales and Ann Pegoraro
• Online performances of fandom : selective self-presentation, perceived affordances, and parasocial interactions on social media / Kathryn Coduto
• The construction of sports fandom by sports betting companies / Jason Kido Lopez
• Fandom in the realm of fantasy sport / Brody J. Ruihley and Robin Hardin
• Understanding sport videogames : the extensions of fan / Steven Conway
• Sports fans hunt for women's games : beyond news media coverage / Anji L. Phillips and Dunja Antunovic
• Twitter discourse in the Southeaster conference : the Nick Saban effect / Vincent L. Benigni and Lance V. Porter
• Football fan reactions to video assistant referee : no more hand of God / Yuya Kiuchi
• Reconfiguring transnational fan experience through digital media : European football in China / Yuan Gong
• The commodification and mediatization of fandom : creating executive fandom / Brett Hutchins, David Rowe and Andy Ruddock
• Football fans and food : feeding the desire / Keith D. Parry and Jessica Richards
• Fan reactions to athlete activism : "stick to sports"
• Stephen Warren.

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ISBN

• 1-000-55243-8
• 0-429-34218-7

OCLC

1273727737

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