Digital Football Cultures: Fandom, Identities and Resistance

The book "Digital Football Cultures" explores the challenges and opportunities presented by emerging technologies and means of communication in the football industry, presenting cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work on digital football cultures, fandom, social media, and sub-cybercultures. It argues that the sport is undergoing hyperdigitalization and is a valuable resource for students and researchers in leisure studies, sports studies, football studies, and critical media studies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 210 pages
Publication date: 20 August 2018
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

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.

Weight: 431g
Dimension: 212 x 148 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780815360209