Gender, Play and Identity: A Longitudinal Study of Structure and Agency in Female Football Fandom

Sandvoss, Cornel; Ball, Emily

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-59025-1_13

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“…In general, the participatory affordances of digital media enable pluralistic expressions of sports culture, including oppositional, fan-organized protest activities against corruption, homophobia, racism, and similar depraved outcomes of traditional hegemonic structures within sports. In addition, individuals, including well-known professionals, amateur athletes, and fans use social media platforms to enhance their personalized and sometimes marginalized approaches to sports, including female perspectives (Sandvoss & Ball, 2018;Toffoletti et al, 2019).…”

Section: Audience Participation and Identity Negotiationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sports events in a transmedia landscape

Frandsen,

Olesen,

Thorhauge

2023

MedieKultur

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Sports events in a transmedia landscape Sports and sports events are among the most popular media phenomena today. Television broadcasters invest heavily to secure exclusive live coverage rights for both their broadcasting and streaming platforms, while global tech platforms and live sports streaming platforms, like Amazon Prime, Facebook, DAZN, and Tencent, have intervened in the coverage rights markets (Hutchins et al., 2019). While television continues to have a primary anchoring role for both organizers and audiences of big traditional sports events (Hutchins & Sanderson, 2017) social networking services extend the narration and experience of sports and events, making sports one of the most discussed topics on social network platforms. This in turn informs content in television programming.Sports events in the digital environment must therefore be understood as a more diverse range of events, where audiences engage in new sports and in new converging practices that can be termed "participatory liveness" (Frandsen et al., 2022). They are transmedia events, as in the case of Tour de France, where a multiplicity of auditive and visual media are involved in both production and reception processes. Through their presence as spectators at the games and through television viewing and participatory practices online (Rothenbuhler, 1988;Jenkins, 2008;Gantz & Lewis, 2014;Rowe & Hutchins, 2014), audiences and fans actively contribute to the creation of major sports competitions as media events (Dayan & Katz, 1992).Moreover, while often constituting festive and ritualized expressions of imagined communities with shared values, sports events are increasingly used as vehicles of soft power (Nye, 2004) on the geopolitical scene and emerge as stages for public discussions and expressions of topical political and cultural themes including mental health, identity, gender, race, climate, and human rights. Issues of conflict and protests against hegemonic ideologies and structures seem to become more prominent in the mediated discourses creating the events as media events. In particular, the preparations for two mega-events in 2022 -the FIFA World Cup in Qatar and the Winter Olympics in Beijing -have been dominated by broader political controversies. These developments are underpinned by continued globalization and digitalization and point to a need for further discussion of the sport event as a media event (Hepp & Couldry, 2010).This theme issue addresses sports events with particular attention to the role of media and platforms in the production of events and related audience strategies and practices. It consists of five articles addressing the global and local interests surrounding sports events and the political themes emerging through the diverse audience practices associated with large-scale sports events. Two important themes cut across the issue: the implications of the changing media landscape for 1) the structure and dynamics of transmedia sports events and 2) the options for audiences to participate and engage in ident...

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Section: Audience Participation and Identity Negotiationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sports events in a transmedia landscape

Frandsen,

Olesen,

Thorhauge

2023

MedieKultur

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“…Recent empirical studies in Europe have tended to show that family members (Dixon, 2013;Pope and Kirk, 2014;Pfister et al, 2018 Sandvoss andBall, 2018) and peers (Dixon, 2013;Pfister et al, 2018) are the most important agents that socialise individuals to support their local football clubs. However, the situation is different for transnational fans.…”

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How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity

Lee

2022

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Despite the importance of transnational fans to the globalisation of European football, there have not been many studies that aim to understand why they support specific overseas clubs. On the basis of qualitative interviews with transnational fans in Hong Kong and supplemented by findings from an online fan survey, I argue that most of them lack genuine choices when choosing their favourite overseas clubs. Even when all English Premier League matches are shown live in Hong Kong and with information about many European clubs available on the Internet, transnational fans tend to support teams that they were familiar with when they were still young, and clubs that star players play for. Such clubs are usually the richest ones that can help them achieve success on the pitch. Also, family members and peers can be influential to the origin of football fandom, but there is little pressure to support the same overseas club as their family members or peers. The choices of transnational fans based in Hong Kong should also be understood by taking the historical context of the city into account. Such findings suggest that globalisation has freed Hong Kong football fans from geographical constraints, but the individualisation thesis in the late modern era needs to be qualified since the wealth of European clubs and fans’ immediate social context do often have important impacts on their decision to support an overseas club.

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‘We support football in our heart’: female football fandom in Iran

Eskandari

2022

Soccer & Society

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Gender, Play and Identity: A Longitudinal Study of Structure and Agency in Female Football Fandom

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

Sports events in a transmedia landscape

Sports events in a transmedia landscape

How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity

‘We support football in our heart’: female football fandom in Iran

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