Sports fans and innovation: An analysis of football fans’ satisfaction with video assistant refereeing through social identity and argumentative theories

2021 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Mathieu Winand ◽  
Christopher Schneiders ◽  
Sebastian Merten ◽  
Mathieu Marlier
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Football Fans

A Tale of No Cities: Analysis of Premier Lacrosse League Fan Identity and Fanship

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Samuel D. Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Team Identity ◽  
Socialization Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fan Identity

The present study examined the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) and fans’ identity and fanship. The PLL boasts a uniqueness many sports fans are unfamiliar with—non-geographically affiliated teams. Using socialization theory, social identity theory, and fan identity, the author sought to better understand the fan qualities of the PLL, especially surrounding athlete importance. A Qualtrics survey was distributed through reddit.com/r/lacrosse and major lacrosse forums with the goal to assess fanship toward favorite players, favorite teams, and PLL media consumption. Statistical analyses revealed that those who have a previously constructed lacrosse fan identity, consume more lacrosse media, and have been following a professional or college lacrosse athlete in the past are more likely to embrace the PLL. In a league where geographical affiliation is currently absent, research suggests that encouraging fan adoption of a favorite player is key to creating fans who begin to feel investment, loyalty, and increased team identity.

Nigeria, Football, and the Return of Lord Lugard

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuka Onwumechili
Keyword(s):  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
Complementary Method ◽  
Football Fans ◽  
The Media ◽  
European Football ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

This qualitative research investigated the meaning of the European football leagues’ domination of the Nigerian football market. It finds that the media use a frame of “Nigeria as colony” to report football. In essence, the media interpret Europe as center of modern football and Nigeria as periphery. The study uses 2 methods: (a) a frame analysis of 2 daily sports newspapers, 1 national daily newspaper, and a satellite television sports channel and (b) in-depth interviews of 10 Nigerian football fans. Each complementary method helps confirm results obtained by the other. The frame analysis discovers 4 themes and the interviews found 5 related themes. Each theme logically links to the archetype frame of Nigeria as colony. The results of the study confirm valence framing, demonstrating the impact of the frame on Nigerian sports fans.

Social Identity Theory in Sports Fandom Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 172-191
Author(s):  
Nicholas Hirshon
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Sports Fandom ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Football Team ◽  
The University ◽  
Group Memberships

Sports fans are known to engage in BIRGing, or basking in reflected glory after their team wins, and CORFing, cutting off reflected failure following a team loss. These phenomena are related to social identity theory, which examines how group memberships shape a person's self-image. This chapter explores how media-attentive sports fans internalize victory and externalize defeat by charting the simultaneous developments in the 1970s of social identity theory, advanced by European social psychologists, and BIRGing and CORFing, which are rooted in a landmark study on college students wearing school-identifying apparel after the university football team won. The chapter also examines how social identity has served and can continue to be utilized as the theoretical backbone for research on mass-mediated sports fandom.

Sports Fans’ Discourse: Metaphors They Live by (Based on M. Andrack’s «Lebenslänglich Fußball. Vom Wahnsinn, Fan zu sein»)

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
Roman Belyutin
Keyword(s):  
Reference Source ◽  
Distributional Analysis ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Common Reference ◽  
Sports Communication ◽  
Cognitive Metaphor ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Football Fans ◽  
Erotic Art ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

The article is devoted to the analysis of sports fans’ discourse which is an important part of sports communication. This discourse is examined in the light of the cognitive metaphor as an object for world cognition and modelling. The research is based on one of the most popular works of the new genre (fan diary) – the book written by M. Andrack, a journalist, writer and TV presenter who has a status of an experienced football fan apart from his vocation. Research methods comprise cognitive and discourse analysis, modelling, classification, distributional analysis applied to reveal collocations of certain lexemes. On the basis of the results of the empirical analysis, the article reveals metaphoric representations of key concepts in fans’ subculture built round «rooting »; metaphors having a common reference source (religion, magic, theatre, vehicles, medicine, erotic art, gender, etc.) are united into bigger groups – metaphoric models. The work demonstrates classic and specific (via precedent facts of life and intradiscourse import of concepts) variants for conceptualization of reality by football fans through the metaphoric reference system.

A Social Influence Perspective on Uses of Online Football Forums

2021 ◽  
pp. 373-390
Author(s):  
Anıl Sayan ◽  
Vehbi Gorgulu ◽  
Itır Erhart ◽  
Yonca Aslanbay
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Football Fans ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Shed Light

This study aims to shed light on Turkish football forum users on the Internet from a social identity and uses and gratifications (U&G) perspective in order to reveal joint intentions among football fans online. The research model of the current study applies a uses and gratifications approach to examine whether fan motivations while using online football forums determine we-intentions among forum members. Social influence processes are also essential in the context of research on online forums, since they determine changes in attitudes and actions produced by the virtual social influence that may occur at different levels. Findings reveal uses and gratifications of football forum participation as maintaining interpersonal interconnectivity, generating entertainment and purposive value along with affective social identity construct determined we-intention among forum users.

scholarly journals Beliefs about the Consequences of the Establishment of Betting Terminals on Attendance and the Promotion of Youth's Gambling

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Aboagye ◽  
Joseph Anthony Yawson
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Financial Benefits ◽  
Football Fans ◽  
The Future

The increase in the number of betting terminals over the years has attracted many people to watch matches and stake odds. Since live matches have been found to provide more money for betting companies, betting companies are providing more options for people to stake live bets by establishing many terminals. Sports fans have also taken the opportunity to watch free live matches in the betting terminals. The current study examined the reasons why football fans prefer watching live matches in betting terminals instead of at the stadia. Using an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) the views of six football fans (bettors) were examined in betting terminals. Findings revealed that fans are attracted to watch matches at betting terminals based on cost-effectiveness and financial benefits, socialisation/atmosphere, watching many matches at the same time, and proximity (nearness of betting terminals to their homes). While the respondents foresaw the establishment of betting terminals as a threat to promote gambling among the youths they don’t support the ban on the establishment of betting terminals as they see it as an avenue to generate extra revenue. Suggestions and discussions for the future can be found in the appropriate section in this paper.

scholarly journals Beers and blurred boundaries: The spatial and gendered organisation of pre-match venues for English football fans

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 647-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Richards ◽  
Keith D. Parry
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Football Club ◽  
Sports Fandom ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Football Fans ◽  
New Space ◽  
The Creation

Academic research into sports fans has grown in recent years with studies examining a variety of aspects associated with fandom. However, recent changes in the professionalisation and commercialisation of sport have resulted in the creation of new spaces for fan experiences. In this article, we examine one of these created spaces, the fan zone. Through a case study on matchgoing fans from Everton Football Club we explore how this new space sits alongside traditional pre-match gathering places such as the ‘pub’ and examine the gendered organisation of these spaces. Drawing on Bale’s concept of boundaries within sports fan communities we show that traditional venues for pre-match activities enhance, maintain and legitimise masculine boundaries within sports fandom. We argue that fan zones provide an alternative match day atmosphere and experience that is centred on a family-friendly or at least family-inclusive culture.

A Social Influence Perspective on Uses of Online Football Forums

2017 ◽  
pp. 271-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anıl Sayan ◽  
Vehbi Gorgulu ◽  
Itır Erhart ◽  
Yonca Aslanbay
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Football Fans ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Shed Light

This study aims to shed light on Turkish football forum users on the Internet from a social identity and uses and gratifications (U&G) perspective in order to reveal joint intentions among football fans online. The research model of the current study applies a uses and gratifications approach to examine whether fan motivations while using online football forums determine we-intentions among forum members. Social influence processes are also essential in the context of research on online forums, since they determine changes in attitudes and actions produced by the virtual social influence that may occur at different levels. Findings reveal uses and gratifications of football forum participation as maintaining interpersonal interconnectivity, generating entertainment and purposive value along with affective social identity construct determined we-intention among forum users.

scholarly journals LEGAL STATUS OF SPORTS FANS IN UKRAINE

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Svitlana Poliarush ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Historical Aspect ◽  
Sports Organizations ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
Football Fans ◽  
The Status ◽  
Fruitful Cooperation

The article attempts to characterize the legal status of sports fans in Ukraine using the experience of foreign countries. Attention is paid to the historical aspect of the formation of sports fans in the world. The author dwelled on the movement of football fans in the twentieth century. Based on modern research by Ukrainian scientists, a classification of certain categories of football fans is presented. The article argues that sports fans are a kind of challenge to government agencies, and sometimes to society as a whole, so the ability to work with such informal entities, where the composition is dominated by young people, is a key task of government agencies. Examples of fruitful cooperation between the state, local governments and volunteers in the form of fan projects with football fans in Germany and Belgium are given. It was stated that cooperation in Ukraine is still carried out at the level of the football club and fans. The introduction of the position of the Officer for work with football fans in football clubs is positively assessed. The specifics of the Ukrainian fan football movement are pointed out - it is strongly influenced by politics. It is emphasized that in Ukraine, so far, there is no law that would regulate the legal status of sports fans. A number of international agreements, acts of international sports organizations and Ukrainian legislative, by-laws and local regulations are analyzed in the context of clarifying the set of rights and obligations of sports fans (mostly football). It is established that the status of sports fans is determined only within the limits of achieving the goal of ensuring the safety of sports competitions. It is proposed to develop a special law in the future, which would establish the legal status of sports fans and the fan movement in general. Particular attention is paid to the clear wording of the rights of sports fans.

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