Routledge handbook of sport fans and fandom
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Routledge handbook of sport fans and fandom
（Routledge international handbooks）
Routledge, 2022
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Handbook of sport fans and fandom
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
* This is the first book to examine the topic of sport fans and fandom from a multi-disciplinary perspective
* Fans are central to sport, and therefore central to understanding and studying sport
* Other books have presented particular cases of fans in particular sports, but this book brings together fan studies from around the world and across a wide range of different sports
* Includes perspectives from sociology, cultural studies, communication studies, management, psychology, history and media studies
Table of Contents
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"
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