Sports Mania

Essays on Fandom and the Media in the 21st Century

Lawrence W. Hugenberg, Paul M. Haridakis, Adam C. Earnheardt (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

293 Seiten

2008
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-3726-9 (ISBN)

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A collection of essays that tackles a wide range of subjects, including the ways in which people root for their teams, the consumption of sports information, and the uses of technology to cultivate fan communities.

Leading scholars in sports communication tackle a wide range of subjects in these essays, including the ways in which people root for their teams, the consumption of sports information, and the uses of technology to cultivate fan communities. Taking an interdisciplinary approach through the fields of communication, psychology and telecommunications, this collection explores modern fans, their motives and culture, and their identification with sports and individual teams.

Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

The late Lawrence W. Hugenberg was a communication professor at Kent State University and had published on NASCAR and its fans. Paul M. Haridakis is an associate professor at Kent State University. He lives in Akron, Ohio. Adam C. Earnheardt is an assistant professor of communication studies and basic course director at Youngstown State University. His research interests include sports media effects, media ethics, and new media studies.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

SPORTS MEDIA CONTENT

Playing Dirty: On Reading Media Texts and Studying Sports Fans in Commercialized Settings

Lawrence A. Wenner

Patriots and Saints: How the NFL Helped America Cope with Terrorists and Natural Disasters

Steven E. Martin and Amanda Breitenfeldt

Two Nations, Two Networks, One Game: An Analysis of the ESPN and Univision Telecasts of the 2002 Mexico–United States World Cup Match

John P. McGuire and Greg G. Armfield      45

THE SPORTS FAN

Exploring the Roots of Sports Fanship

Walter Gantz, Brian Wilson, Hyangsun Lee, and David Fingerhut

The Coping Strategies of Highly Identified Sports Fans: The Importance of Team Success on Tendencies to Utilize Proactive Pessimism

Daniel L. Wann and Frederick G. Grieve

Understanding the Voice of the Fan: Apologia, Antapologia, and the 2006 World Cup Controversy

Paul D. Turman, Kevin A. Stein, and Matthew H. Barton

FAN IDENTIFICATION

The Consequences of Sports Fan Identification

Beth Dietz-Uhler and Jason R. Lanter

I Am Yao Ming: Identification and Internet Fan Discussion

Katherine L. Lavelle

FAN MOTIVES

Advances in Theories of Sports Fans’ Motives: Fan Personal Motives and the Emotional Impacts of Games and Their Outcomes

Lloyd Reynolds Sloan and Debbie Van Camp

Exploring Fandom and Motives for Viewing Televised Sports

Adam C. Earnheardt and Paul M. Haridakis

NASCAR Fans in Their Own Words: Motivation Expressed in Narratives

Lawrence W. Hugenberg and Barbara Hugenberg

Exploring the Motives of Fantasy Sports: A Uses-and-Gratifications Approach

John S.W. Spinda and Paul M. Haridakis

FAN-PRODUCED CONTENT

“Let the Domination Begin”: Sports Fans’ Construction of Identity in Online Message Boards

Kelly A. Berg and Allison Harthcock

“It’s (Not) in the Game”: The Quest for Quantitative Realism and the Madden Football

Andrew Baerg

Virtual Sports Consumption, Authentic Brotherhood: The Reality of Fantasy Football

Michael Serazio

The Florida Gator Nation Online

Rebecca B. Watts

References

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.10.2008
Zusatzinfo	bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-7864-3726-X / 078643726X
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-3726-9 / 9780786437269
Zustand	Neuware