Professional football is one of the most popular television 'genres' worldwide, attracting the support of millions of fans, and the sponsorship of powerful companies. In A Game of Two Halves , ...Sandvoss considers football's relationship with television, its links with transnational capitalism, and the importance of football fandom in forming social and cultural identities around the globe. He presents the phenomenon of football as a reflection postmodern culture and globalization.Through a series of case studies, based in ethnographic audience research, Sandvoss explores the motivations and pleasures of football fans, the intense bond formed between supporters and their clubs, the implications of football consumption on political discourse and citizenship, football as a factor of cultural globalisation, and the pivotal role of football and television in a postmodern cultural order.
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 1 Football, Fandom and Consumption Chapter 2 Fan Practices and Consumption Chapter 3 Fandom, Identity and Self-Reflection Part 2 The Social and Cultural Diffusion of Football Chapter 4 The Politics of Football: Fandom and the Public Sphere Chapter 5 Football and Cultural Globalisation Part 3 Football and Postmodernity Chapter 6 Football, Formal Rationality and Standardisation Chapter 7 Television, Football and Hyperreality Chapter 8 Conclusion
Sport Beyond Television Hutchins, Brett; Rowe, David
2012, 20120427, 2012-06-01, 2012-04-27, Volume:
40
eBook
Television is no longer the only screen delivering footage and news to people about sport. Computers, the Internet, Web, mobile and other digital media are increasingly important technologies in the ...production and consumption of sports media. Sport Beyond Television analyzes the changes that have given rise to this situation, combining theoretical insights with original evidence collected through extensive research and interviews with people working in the media and sport industries. It locates sports media as a pivotal component in online content economies and cultures, and counteracts the scant scholarly attention to sports media when compared to music, film and publishing in convergent media cultures.
An expanding array of popular sports media - industry, user, club, athlete and fan produced - is now available and accessible in networked digital communications environments. This change is confounding the thinking of major sports organizations that have lived off the generous revenue flowing from exclusive broadcast contracts with free-to-air and subscription television networks for the last five decades. These developments are creating commercial and policy confusion, particularly as sports audiences and the advertising market fragment in line with the proliferation of niche channels and sources of digital sports media.
Chapters in this title examine the shift from broadcast to online sports media markets, the impact of social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook, evolving user and fan practices, the changing character of sports journalism, and the rise of sports computer gaming. Each chapter traces the socio-cultural implications of trends and trajectories in media sport.
Despite the increasing number of popular and celebrated sports
documentaries in contemporary culture, such as ESPN's 30 for
30 series, there has been little scholarly engagement with
this genre. ...Sports documentaries, like all films, do not merely
showcase objective reality but rather construct specific versions
of sporting culture that serve distinct economic, industrial,
institutional, historical, and sociopolitical ends ripe for
criticism, contextualization, and exploration. Sporting
Realities brings together a diverse group of scholars to probe
the sports documentary's cultural meanings, aesthetic practices,
industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across
historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts. It
considers and critiques the sports documentary's visible and
powerful position in contemporary culture and forges novel
connections between the study of nonfiction media and sport.
The current year (2020) marks the thirtieth anniversary of Israel TV’s sports channel. In this article we discuss the role of the channel (now known by its trade name Sport 5), its functions, and its ...impact on the media and sports culture in Israel. Through extensive research, which includes interviews with the channel managers, editors, reporters, and directors, as well as observations on the channel’s news desk and studios, we analyze the overall impact of the channel on sports and beyond, in the cultural, global, and ethical realms.
2020 מציינת שלושים שנות פעילות של ערוץ הספורט בטלוויזיה בישראל. המאמר מבקש לעמוד על תפקידו של ערוץ הספורט (המוכר כיום בשמו המסחרי ספורט 5), על תפקודו, על מקומו ועל השפעתו על מפת התקשורת ותרבות הספורט בישראל. באמצעות מחקר מקיף, שכלל ראיונות עם מנהלי הערוץ, עורכים, כתבים ובמאים, וכן תצפיות במערכת החדשות של הערוץ ובניידות השידור שלו, מלמדים ממצאי המחקר הנוכחי על השפעות הערוץ על זירת תקשורת הספורט ומעבר לה במרחב התרבותי, הגלובלי והאתי.
Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid charts, both hilariously and touchingly, sport's golden years on terrestrial television, recreating the halcyon days of 1980s British sport.
ABC Sports shaped how the world consumes sport. The American Broadcasting Company's sports division is behind some of network television's most significant practices, celebrated personalities, and ...iconic moments. It created the weekend anthologyWide World of Sports, transformed professional football into a prime-time spectacle withMonday Night Football, fashioned the Olympics into a mega media event, and even revolutionized TV news. Travis Vogan's cultural and institutional history of ABC Sports examines the development of network sports television in the United States and the aesthetic, cultural, political, and industrial practices that mark it.ABC Sportstraces the storied division from its beginnings through the internet age to reveal the changes it endured along with the new sports media environment it spawned.
This study examined interactions among family members and friends before, during, and after the Super Bowl telecast, using a modified sports fan motivation scale to explore and identify specific ...motives viewers had for engaging with the Super Bowl on television. An exploratory factor analysis found five unique motives for viewing the telecast among viewers: enjoyment of football, social interaction, appreciation of American values, immersion into different media platforms, and overall entertainment. Based on gender analysis, men were more likely to watch the Super Bowl for the football game and engage in second screen immersion, while women mostly favored the social aspects of the telecast. Patriotism was more likely to be a motivator for individuals who earn less than $100,000 annually and those with less than a college education. The study examined similar factors using structured open response interview questions. Results show the majority of respondents communicated with family before and after game day. Qualitative findings reinforce the five motives and provide insight into the way families create meaning through their social interactions. Dialectical tension between autonomy and connection was revealed as the majority saw the Super Bowl as a positive experience while others viewed the gathering as a negative ritual that disrupted their normal television viewing routines. This study contributes to the understanding of both family communication in the context of family relationship building and sport communication by exploring the unique motivations individuals have for co-viewing a major sporting event on television with family and friends.
NFL Films changed the way Americans viewed professional football. In Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media, Travis Vogan presents NFL Films' rise from a small independent ...production company to a marketing machine Sports Illustrated called "perhaps the most effective propaganda organ in the history of corporate America." Drawing on research at the NFL Films Archive and the Pro Football Hall of Fame and interviews with media pioneer Steve Sabol and others, Vogan traces how NFL Films constructed a romanticized, remarkably visible mythology for the National Football League by packaging pro football as a heroic sequence of violent and beautiful gridiron battles. John Facenda's honeyed "Voice of God" baritone and Sam Spence's soaring scores merged with the epic poetry in Steve Sabol's scripts to create a hugely successful entertainment formula still used today. Vogan also shows the company's relationship with and vast influence on our culture's representations of sport, the expansion of sports television beyond live game broadcasts, and the emergence of cable television and Internet sports media. His analysis presents sports media as an integral facet of American popular culture, and NFL Films as key to the transformation of pro football into the national obsession known as America's Game.
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