Digital Football Cultures: Fandom, Identities and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780815360209 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 210 str.

Stefan Lawrence; Garry Crawford

Opis

This is the first book to bring together key contemporary debates at the intersection of football studies, leisure studies and digital cultural studies. Presenting cutting edge theoretical and empirical work, Digital Football Cultures argues that we are witnessing the hyper-digitalization of the world’s most popular sport.

Spis treści

1. The Hyperdigitalization of Football Cultures,  2. ‘Feel It Closing In’: Digital Football Cultures in a Claustropolitan Age,  3. Transnational Digital Fandom: Club Media, Place and (Networked) Space,  4. Between Old and New Traditions: Transnational Solidarities and the Love for Liverpool FC,  5. From Backstage to Frontstage: Exploring Football and the Growing Problem of Online Abuse,  6. Gender Trouble in Digital Football Fandom: A Swedish Perspective,  7. Shifting Patterns of Football Fandom and Digital Media Cultures: YouTube, Fifa Videogames, and AFC Wimbledon,  8. Exploring the Digitalization of Football Violence: Ultras, Disembodiment and the Internet,  9. Football Videogames: Re-shaping Football and Re-defining Fandom in a Postmodern Era,  10. Restoring ‘The Football Kingdom of the Far East’: The Limited Potential of  Videogames for the Development and Promotion of Hong Kong Football,  11. “Good Morning Beautiful People … I Love You but I'll Beat Your Arse in Fifa17”: The Negotiation of Social Capital and FIFA17 Match-making of Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson Twitter,  12. Football 2.0? The (Un)Changing Nature of Football and its Possible Futures