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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"sport fandom"”.
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Factors That Influence Team Identification: Sport Fandom and the Need for Affiliation
… “the level of psychological attachment felt by a sports fan toward his or her favorite team” (Kim & Kim, 2009; Wann, Melnick, Russell, & Pease, 2001). Participants for the current study included 80 undergraduate psychology students, recruited through Study Board at Western Kentucky University. …
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The Relationship Between Sport Fandom, Identification with a Specific Team, and an Individual's Socialization Experiences
… a better understanding of why some people become sport fans and others do not. The study focused specifically on the differences in socialization experiences between people high and low in sport fandom and people high and low in team identification. Warm (2003) defines sport fandom as one's …
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Does locality predict sport fandom?: an examination of local, non-local, and distant nba fans in the United States and China
… in various aspects of modern society, including sport. Plenty of professional sports leagues have made global plans to expand their business to overseas markets, and the National Basketball Association (NBA) has stood at the forefront of this expansion process. Using an online survey, the current …
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Examining the Team Identification of Football Fans at the High School Level
Although sport fandom is often stereotypically associated with negative behaviors such as poor interpersonal skills and aggressiveness, theorists have suggested that, because sport fandom provides such a social and fun atmosphere, fandom may actually be related to psychological health. ... Research …
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A Phenomenological Investigation of Sport and Fandom Through Hans-Georg Gadamer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
… the phenomenological and communicative roots of sport fandom from the fan perspective, taking into account the many ways in which fans come to contact sport and integrate corresponding experiences into their own lives and sense of being in the world. Hans-Georg Gadamer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty …
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Potential Factors That Influence Team Identification: A Desire to be Similar or Different?
… University. The participants completed the Sport Fandom Questionnaire (SFQ) and the Need for Affiliation (nAff) scale. Participants were presented with one of three randomly assigned scenarios, and were asked to transcribe two memories, dependent upon the previously assigned scenario. …
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Share, like, tweet and cheer: an examination of social media usage and the NFL
Sport is an integral part of American society and no sport in the United States has achieved a greater following than the National Football League (NFL). The introduction and implementation of social media is granting fans unprecedented access to leagues, teams, and players. and providing sport …
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We are the 'Who Dat' Nation: city identity, narratives of renewal, and football fandom in New Orleans public realm
<p>Research often frames the relationship between sports and the city in terms of economics as researchers debate the costs and benefits of using public subsidies to build stadiums, retain professional teams and host mega-events. However, people assign symbolic or intangible values to their home …
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Implicit Religion and the Highly-Identified Sports Fan: An Ethnography of Cleveland Sports Fandom
Scholarly writing on the conflation of sport as a religion regularly concentrates onthe historical and institutional parallels with the religious dimensions of sport, focusing on ritual, community, sacred space, and other categories more traditionally associated with religious life. Instead, this …
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Making It Pay to be a Fan: The Political Economy of Digital Sports Fandom and the Sports Media Industry
… sociological examinations of the role that the sports media industry and mediated sport fandom plays in the political economy of the Internet. The Internet has structurally changed the way that sport fans access sport and accelerated the processes through which the capitalist actors in the …