Football Fandom and Consumption

Modern football is an industry and capitalism is its engine. However, this book argues for a more nuanced understanding of contemporary football culture and the (self-)identity of football fans.

Author: Oliver Brooks

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780429632297

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 160

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Modern football is an industry and capitalism is its engine. However, this book argues for a more nuanced understanding of contemporary football culture and the (self-)identity of football fans. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted with fans at all levels, from international to lower league, the book explores the tensions between fans as consumers and ‘traditional’ football cultures, arguing that modern football fans are able to negotiate the discourses of capitalism and tradition operating upon them to enact their own power and identity within football culture. Featuring case studies of Norwich City, MK Dons and Chelsea fans, this is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport and society or cultural studies.
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Fans

Explores the social, cultural, and psychological premises and consequences of fan consumption. This book describes the nature and development of whole fan cultures, and focuses on the experience and identity of the individual fan.

Author: Cornel Sandvoss

Publisher: Polity

ISBN: 9780745629728

Category: Social Science

Page: 204

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Explores the social, cultural, and psychological premises and consequences of fan consumption. This book describes the nature and development of whole fan cultures, and focuses on the experience and identity of the individual fan.
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Consuming Football in Late Modern Life

In turn, the work departs from much of the existing literature that features exceptional properties of fanatical fans, in order to emphasise the position that seemingly trivial acts of consumption can have a profound influence on the ...

Author: Kevin Dixon

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317161134

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 168

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Consuming Football in Late Modern Life explores the phenomenon of football (soccer) fandom as consumption in the age of late modernity. By centralising fandom within the sociology of consumption, the book examines how this phenomenon equates to a fluid series of consumption activities that are practiced in the course of everyday life. In turn, the work departs from much of the existing literature that features exceptional properties of fanatical fans, in order to emphasise the position that seemingly trivial acts of consumption can have a profound influence on the construction, maintenance and evolution of football fandom cultures. Containing up to date research findings derived from a programme of interviews with a sample of football fans, Kevin Dixon examines the social, emotional, economic and technological implications of consumption as fans participate in and respond to the demands of consumer life.
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A Game of Two Halves

What is at stake is not only class positions, but questions of identity and identification in the consumption practices that constitute football fandom. Gender is only one line of distinction that emerged in the course of my research.

Author: Cornel Sandvoss

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134378326

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 224

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Professional football is one of the most popular television 'genres' worldwide, attracting the support of millions of fans, and the sponsorship of powerful companies. In A Game of Two Halves, Sandvoss considers football's relationship with television, its links with transnational capitalism, and the importance of football fandom in forming social and cultural identities around the globe. He presents the phenomenon of football as a reflection postmodern culture and globalization.Through a series of case studies, based in ethnographic audience research, Sandvoss explores the motivations and pleasures of football fans, the intense bond formed between supporters and their clubs, the implications of football consumption on political discourse and citizenship, football as a factor of cultural globalisation, and the pivotal role of football and television in a postmodern cultural order.
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Consuming Football in Late Modern Life

It is clear then, that scholars largely support the position that consumption can infiltrate practice at experiential as well as purely economic levels, and in relation to football fandom, I argue that fandom studies would benefit if ...

Author: Kevin Dixon

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317161141

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 168

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Consuming Football in Late Modern Life explores the phenomenon of football (soccer) fandom as consumption in the age of late modernity. By centralising fandom within the sociology of consumption, the book examines how this phenomenon equates to a fluid series of consumption activities that are practiced in the course of everyday life. In turn, the work departs from much of the existing literature that features exceptional properties of fanatical fans, in order to emphasise the position that seemingly trivial acts of consumption can have a profound influence on the construction, maintenance and evolution of football fandom cultures. Containing up to date research findings derived from a programme of interviews with a sample of football fans, Kevin Dixon examines the social, emotional, economic and technological implications of consumption as fans participate in and respond to the demands of consumer life.
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The Feminization of Sports Fandom

Sports fandom and especially football fandom is even more complicated in this respect as there is also a perceived tension between the sport's supposed 'new' ersatz consumers and older, ...

Author: Stacey Pope

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781317425397

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 280

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Women fans have entered the traditionally male domain of the sports stadium in growing numbers in recent years. Watching professional sport is important for women for so many reasons, but their expectations and experiences have been largely ignored by academics. This book tackles these shortcomings in the literature and sheds new light on the many ways in which women become sports fans. This groundbreaking study is the first to focus on the phenomenon of the feminization of sports fandom. Including original research on football and rugby union in the UK, it looks at the increasing opportunities for women to become sports fans in contemporary society and critically examines the way this form of leisure is valued by women. Drawing upon feminist thinking and intersectionality, it shows how women from different social classes and age groups consume the spectacle of sport. This book is fascinating reading for any student or scholar interested in sport and leisure studies, sociology and gender or women’s studies.
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Exploring the Rise of Fandom in Contemporary Consumer Culture

Sport teams and the leaders of the fan tribes can establish and/or build on their unique history and traditions, and initiate meaningful rituals involving the consumption process. For example, Florida State University football fans ...

Author: Lu Wang, Cheng

Publisher: IGI Global

ISBN: 9781522532217

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 300

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Every company wants their business to have a strong, loyal following, but achieving this feat can be a challenge. Examining the growth of fandom popularity in modern culture can provide insights into consumer trends and patterns. Exploring the Rise of Fandom in Contemporary Consumer Culture is an innovative scholarly resource that offers an in-depth discussion on the soaring popularity of fan communities and how these followers serve a larger purpose in a consumer-driven society. Highlighting applicable topics that include brand loyalty, fan perceptions, social media, and virtual realities, this publication is ideal for business managers, academicians, students, professionals, and researchers that are interested in learning more about how fan behavior can impact the economic environment.
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Sport In Consumer Culture

As we have seen, King suggested that three kinds of football fans emerged in the 1990s – the traditional, the new writers and the new consumer fans. Giulianotti (2002), influenced more by postmodern social theory, considers football ...

Author: John Horne

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9780230802353

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 216

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This book offers a distinctive introduction to understanding the position of sport in consumer society. Drawing on recent developments in sociological theory and research, particularly in relation to debates about culture and consumption, the book examines how sport - as both recreational practice and commercial spectacle - has become more central to the capitalist 'economies of signs and space'. Containing up-to-date research findings and identifying key issues in the study and politics of sport in consumer culture, this is essential reading for all students seeking to broaden their understanding of sport in society.
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Routledge Handbook of Sport Fans and Fandom

Chinese European football fans' digital practices entail the significant roles that local digital platforms have played in shaping transnational sports consumption and fandom in reforming China. The use of digital technology in mediated ...

Author: Danielle Sarver Coombs

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000552461

Category: Social Science

Page: 426

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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 marginalized 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.
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Football in the Middle East

Josoor Institute and Deloitte, “Middle East Football Fan Engagement,” January 2017, www.josoorinstitute.qa/content/middle-east-football-fanengagement. Nicholas D. Theodorakis et al., “Attitudes and Consumption Behaviors of Football Fans ...

Author: Abdullah Al-Arian

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780197684757

Category: History

Page: 307

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Far and away the most popular sport in the world, football has a special place in Middle Eastern societies, and for Middle Eastern states. With Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, this region has been cast into the global footballing spotlight, raising issues of geopolitical competition, consumer culture and social justice. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book examines the complex questions raised by the phenomenon of football as a significant cultural force in the Middle East, as well as its linkages to broader political and socioeconomic processes. The establishment of football as a national sport offers significant insight into the region's historical experiences with colonialism and struggles for independence, as well as the sport's vital role in local and regional politics today-whether at the forefront of popular mobilizations, or as an instrument of authoritarian control. Football has also served as an arena of contestation in the formation of national identity, the struggle for gender equality, and the development of the media landscape. The twelve contributions to this volume draw on extensive engagement with the existing body of literature, and introduce original research questions that promise to open new directions for the study of football in the Middle East.
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