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Revolution of the Modern Sports Fan

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From the advent of social media to the rise of fantasy sport to the increased media platforms in which to consume sport, the sports fan has never had more options for consumption--and for the rendering of one's opinions. As such, Revolution of the Modern Sports Fan offers an opportunity to advance what we now know about American sports fandom.


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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Eccentric Yet Conforming, Irrational Yet Predictable: Anatomy of the Hyper Mediated Sports Fan
Kenon A. Brown, Andrew C. Billings and Melvin Lewis

Unit I: Antecedents and Outcomes of Fan Behavior

Chapter 1The Origins of Sport Fanship: Delineating Tipping Point Sports Identity Factors
J.C. Abdallah, Andrew C. Billings, Zachary W. Arth and Samuel D. Hakim

Chapter 2National Basketball Association (NBA) Social Platform Fan Desires: Attitudinal and Behavioral Intentions
Melvin Lewis, Kenon A. Brown, Andrew C. Billings and Bumsoo Park

Chapter 3Shaping the Shield: Exploring the Impact of Fan Attachment and Consumption towards the Perception of the NFL Brand
Kenon A. Brown, Melvin Lewis, Andrew C. Billings and Bumsoo Park

Chapter 4Loyalty and Locality: Contrasting Sport Fan Behaviors in the United States and China
Sitong Guo and Andrew C. Billings

Unit II: Media Impact on Building Fan Behavior
Chapter 5Resource Dependency Theory and Off-the-Field Behavior: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of the NFL's Ray Rice Saga
Mia Long Anderson, Josh Dickhaus and Kenon A. Brown

Chapter 6The Power of Love: Sport Celebrity, Fandom and the Influence of Mental Health Disclosures on Reducing Stigma
Nathan A. Towery, Nicholas R. Buzzelli, Scott Parrott, Andrew C. Billings and Danielle Sarver Coombs

Chapter 7That's the Ticket...Trend: College Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Ticketing Shifts and Differences
Melvin Lewis, Kenon A. Brown, Andrew C. Billings and Justin Rogers

Chapter 8Fandom in the Twitter World: Sentiment Analyses of the FBS College Football National Championship
Bumsoo Park, Nathan A. Towery and Andrew C. Billings

Chapter 9Machine Learning Insights within Gender-Enacted Social Media Content: The Case of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
Minghui Fan and Andrew C. Billings

Unit III: Fandom and the eSports Revolution
Chapter 10Understanding eSports I: Are Video Game Competitions Sporting Events? Comparing 30 eSport and Traditional Sport Spectatorship Motivations
Jue Hou and Andrew C. Billings

Chapter 11Understanding eSports II: Active Audiences, New Needs, and Comparisons of the Consumption Motivations of eSport and Traditional Sport Spectatorship
Jue Hou and Andrew C. Billings

Chapter 12Understanding eSports III: Construction of the Motivational Scale for eSport Spectatorship Consumption
Jue Hou and Andrew C. Billings
About the Authors


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Kenon A. Brown is associate professor and Reese Phifer Fellow in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Alabama.
Andrew C. Billings is executive director of the Alabama Program in Sports Communication and Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media at the University of Alabama.
Melvin Lewis is assistant professor in the Department of Human Nutrition and Hospitality Management and Fellow of the Alabama Program in Sports Communication at The University of Alabama.


Product details

Authors Kenon A. Billings Brown
Assisted by Andrew C. Billings (Editor), Billings Andrew C. (Editor), Kenon A. Brown (Editor), Melvin Lewis (Editor), Lewis Melvin (Editor)
Publisher Lexington Books
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.08.2021
 
EAN 9781793650627
ISBN 978-1-79365-062-7
No. of pages 256
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries

SPORTS & RECREATION / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sport: general, Communication Studies

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