Sports Fans 2.0: How Fans Are Using Social Media to Get Closer to the Game - Hardcover

Sutera, David M.

 
9780810890763: Sports Fans 2.0: How Fans Are Using Social Media to Get Closer to the Game
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0810890763 ISBN 13: 9780810890763
Verlag: Scarecrow Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

As of 2012, Twitter has over 100 million active users worldwide, generating close to 230 million Tweets per day. Encouraged by sports shows that incorporate social media as a major component of their programming strategies, sports fans and athletes have proven to be some of the most prolific and adept users of Twitter and other social media platforms. Social media has made it possible for fans to cross the virtual barrier that separates them from the teams they love and the athletes they follow, changing the way fans and athletes interact in the world of sports.

In Sports Fans 2.0: How Fans Are Using Social Media to Get Closer to the Game, David M. Sutera explores the increasingly participatory nature of contemporary sports fandom and spectatorship. He examines the ways in which digital media has created and facilitated new channels for sports fan engagement, and how technology has enhanced the fan's perception of participating in America's sports culture. In addition, Sutera shows how high-profile athletes are using social media to increase their fan base and promote their own celebrity status, creating the sense that they are more accessible to their fans.

Social media has forever altered the way sports fans and athletes engage with each other. Covering a wide range of sports and social media outlets, Sports Fans 2.0 is an accessible examination of how technology has changed-and will continue to change-the world of sports. Written for general readers and scholars alike, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the effects of social media on popular culture.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David M. Sutera is an assistant professor at Bridgewater State University. He is the author of Vaudeville on the Diamond: Minor League Baseball in Today's Entertainment World and Sports Fans 2.0: How Fans Are Using Social Media to Get Closer to the Game. He lives in Bridgewater, MA, outside of Boston.

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Verlag
Scarecrow Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0810890763
ISBN 13 
9780810890763
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
212
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