ABSTRACT
As the digital revolution continues apace, emergent technologies and means of communication present new challenges and opportunities for the football industry. This is the first book to bring together key contemporary debates at the intersection of football studies, leisure studies, and digital cultural studies.
It presents cutting edge theoretical and empirical work based around four key themes: theorizing digital football cultures; digital football fandom; football and social media; and football (sub)cybercultures. Covering topics such as transnational digital fandom, online abuse, and gender, Digital Football Cultures argues that we are witnessing the hyperdigitalization of the world’s most popular sport.
This book is a valuable resource for students and researchers working in leisure studies, sports studies, football studies, and critical media studies, as well as geography, anthropology, criminology, and sociology. It is also fascinating reading for anybody working in sport, media, and culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|49 pages
Theorizing digital football cultures and fandom
chapter 4|19 pages
Between old and new traditions
part II|55 pages
Football and social media
chapter 5|17 pages
From backstage to frontstage
chapter 7|18 pages
Shifting patterns of football fandom and digital media cultures
part III|82 pages
Football (sub)cybercultures