The displaced fan: the importance of new media and community identification for maintaining team identity with your hometown team

Collins, Dorothy R.; Heere, Bob; Shapiro, Stephen L.; Ridinger, Lynn L.; Wear, Henry

doi:10.1080/16184742.2016.1200643

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“…Kraszewski (2008) finds that many distant fans use team bars to connect with home and maintain home identities. Collins et al (2016) build on past research that argues that geographic location explains why fans identify with and follow teams (Heere and James 2007;Kerr and Emery 2011) and find that social media use, internet streaming use, and hometown identification improve hometown team identification among sport fans. DeSarbo et al (2017) provide empirical evidence for the spatial heterogeneity of sport fans.…”

Section: Sport Consumer Dispersionmentioning

confidence: 95%

The Spatial Representation of Consumer Dispersion Patterns via a New Multi-level Latent Class Methodology

Kim

Blank

DeSarbo³

et al. 2021

J Classif

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Section: Sport Consumer Dispersionmentioning

confidence: 95%

The Spatial Representation of Consumer Dispersion Patterns via a New Multi-level Latent Class Methodology

Kim

Blank

DeSarbo³

et al. 2021

J Classif

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“…Over the last decades, the concept of local team identification has been widely used to explain the positive influence of team connection in fans' psychological health. Some research has been also concentrated on fans who lack geographical proximity with their favorite sport team (e.g., displaced fans, fans who support away teams that compete in the same league as the local alternatives, and foreign supporters) in terms of the reasons for following such teams or of the antecedents to team identification (Adrijiw and Hyatt, 2009; Collins et al , 2016; Hyatt and Adrijiw, 2008; Kerr and Emery, 2016; Pu and James, 2017). Other research has focused on the benefits that displaced fans or fans who support a home team at a distance can receive because of their team identification or of their participation in a team's fan club (Scola et al , 2019; Wann et al , 2011a).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Elevating self-esteem through sport team identification: a study about local and distant sport fans

Lianopoulos

Theodorakis

Tsigilis

et al. 2020

IJSMS

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PurposeThe concept of sport team identification has been widely used as a theoretical framework in explaining sport fan behavior. However, limited attention has been devoted to the consequences of distant (i.e., foreign) team identification. The purpose of the current research was to examine the way in which fans (local and distant) can increase their levels of collective and personal self-esteem due to their team identification.Design/methodology/approachData were accumulated from three Greek websites (N = 742). Among them, 623 subjects were grouped as local and 119 as distant football fans. A structural invariance analysis was followed.FindingsThe results revealed how team identification, enduring team-related social connections, and basking in reflected glory are interrelated to affect collective and finally personal self-esteem. Moreover, no differences were found between local and distant fans regarding the paths from eam identification to collective self-esteem and from collective self-esteem to personal self-esteem.Originality/valueThis is one of the first endeavors to examine the psychological consequences of distant team identification and to test the invariance across local and distant fans concerning the mechanisms that their personal self-esteem can be enhanced because their psychological connection to their favorite sport team.

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“…Existing scholarship indicates that social media is often used in tandem with other media consumption including fantasy sport (Larkin and Fink, 2016;Weiner and Dwyer, 2017), Internet streaming (Collins et al, 2016), and television viewing (Gibbs et al, 2014), as well as during live games (Uhrich, 2014). Results from such scholarship indicate that social media complements or enhances the consumption experience, rather than replaces other forms of media consumption (Kassing and Sanderson, 2010).…”

Section: Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

An Analysis of Broadcasting Media Using Social Media Engagement in the WNBA

Pegoraro¹,

Kennedy²,

Agha³

et al. 2021

Front. Sports Act. Living

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While there has been research into what teams, leagues, and athletes post on social media and the impact of post content on social media engagement, there is limited understanding and empirical research on the impact of broadcasting media on social sport consumption. There are an increasing number of new media through which sport leagues can distribute their content to fans. This research examines the impact of different broadcast platforms on game day engagement with WNBA team Twitter accounts. Using data for the 2016–2018 seasons, results indicate athlete/team quality and performance were positively associated with post engagement, underscoring the importance of the core sport product and potentially indicating that the WNBA is developing a star-driven culture similar to the NBA. In addition, broadcasting on League Pass or local TV (for home teams) and Twitter were associated with lower post engagement suggesting we have more to learn about maximizing online engagement.

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The displaced fan: the importance of new media and community identification for maintaining team identity with your hometown team

Cited by 38 publications

References 55 publications

The Spatial Representation of Consumer Dispersion Patterns via a New Multi-level Latent Class Methodology

The Spatial Representation of Consumer Dispersion Patterns via a New Multi-level Latent Class Methodology

Elevating self-esteem through sport team identification: a study about local and distant sport fans

An Analysis of Broadcasting Media Using Social Media Engagement in the WNBA

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