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The internet and digital technologies have transformed sport and
the way that we research sport, opening up new ways to analyse
sport organisations, fan communities, networks, athletes, the
media, and other key stakeholders in the field. This engaging and
innovative book offers a complete introduction to online research
methods in sport studies, guiding the reader through the entire
research process, and bringing that process to life with
sport-related cases and examples. Covering both qualitative and
quantitative methods, the book introduces key topics such as
generating a research idea, implementing the research design,
maintaining good ethical standards, and collecting, analysing and
presenting data. It explains how to conduct online surveys, online
interviews, and online ethnography in practice, and every chapter
contains individual and group activities to encourage the reader to
engage with real online research, as well as further reading
suggestions to help them develop their knowledge. Online Research
Methods in Sport Studies is essential reading for undergraduate and
postgraduate students, academics, and researchers with an interest
in sport studies, and is a useful reference for practitioners
working in sport or sport media who want to improve their
professional research skills.
Football is the most widely played, watched and studied sport in
the world. It's hard to develop a full understanding of the
significance of sport in global society without understanding the
significance of football. Studying Football is the first book
designed specifically to guide and support the study of football on
degree-level courses, across the full range of social-scientific
perspectives. Written by a team of leading international football
experts, and considering themes of globalization, corporatization
and prejudice and discrimination throughout, it introduces key
topics in football studies, including: media and celebrity
identity, fandom and consumption gender violence racism corruption
Every chapter includes up-to-date case study material, a 'Research
in Action' section and features to aid student understanding and
bring theory to life. Studying Football introduces all the key
themes and facets of the social-scientific study of football, and
is therefore an essential text for students on football studies
courses and useful reading for any undergraduates studying the
sociology of sport more generally.
Consuming Football in Late Modern Life explores the phenomenon of
football (soccer) fandom as consumption in the age of late
modernity. By centralising fandom within the sociology of
consumption, the book examines how this phenomenon equates to a
fluid series of consumption activities that are practiced in the
course of everyday life. In turn, the work departs from much of the
existing literature that features exceptional properties of
fanatical fans, in order to emphasise the position that seemingly
trivial acts of consumption can have a profound influence on the
construction, maintenance and evolution of football fandom
cultures. Containing up to date research findings derived from a
programme of interviews with a sample of football fans, Kevin Dixon
examines the social, emotional, economic and technological
implications of consumption as fans participate in and respond to
the demands of consumer life.
Football is the most widely played, watched and studied sport in
the world. It's hard to develop a full understanding of the
significance of sport in global society without understanding the
significance of football. Studying Football is the first book
designed specifically to guide and support the study of football on
degree-level courses, across the full range of social-scientific
perspectives. Written by a team of leading international football
experts, and considering themes of globalization, corporatization
and prejudice and discrimination throughout, it introduces key
topics in football studies, including: media and celebrity
identity, fandom and consumption gender violence racism corruption
Every chapter includes up-to-date case study material, a 'Research
in Action' section and features to aid student understanding and
bring theory to life. Studying Football introduces all the key
themes and facets of the social-scientific study of football, and
is therefore an essential text for students on football studies
courses and useful reading for any undergraduates studying the
sociology of sport more generally.
The internet and digital technologies have transformed sport and
the way that we research sport, opening up new ways to analyse
sport organisations, fan communities, networks, athletes, the
media, and other key stakeholders in the field. This engaging and
innovative book offers a complete introduction to online research
methods in sport studies, guiding the reader through the entire
research process, and bringing that process to life with
sport-related cases and examples. Covering both qualitative and
quantitative methods, the book introduces key topics such as
generating a research idea, implementing the research design,
maintaining good ethical standards, and collecting, analysing and
presenting data. It explains how to conduct online surveys, online
interviews, and online ethnography in practice, and every chapter
contains individual and group activities to encourage the reader to
engage with real online research, as well as further reading
suggestions to help them develop their knowledge. Online Research
Methods in Sport Studies is essential reading for undergraduate and
postgraduate students, academics, and researchers with an interest
in sport studies, and is a useful reference for practitioners
working in sport or sport media who want to improve their
professional research skills.
Consuming Football in Late Modern Life explores the phenomenon of
football (soccer) fandom as consumption in the age of late
modernity. By centralising fandom within the sociology of
consumption, the book examines how this phenomenon equates to a
fluid series of consumption activities that are practiced in the
course of everyday life. In turn, the work departs from much of the
existing literature that features exceptional properties of
fanatical fans, in order to emphasise the position that seemingly
trivial acts of consumption can have a profound influence on the
construction, maintenance and evolution of football fandom
cultures. Containing up to date research findings derived from a
programme of interviews with a sample of football fans, Kevin Dixon
examines the social, emotional, economic and technological
implications of consumption as fans participate in and respond to
the demands of consumer life.
Screens have been with us since the eighteenth century, though we
became accustomed to staring at them only after the appearance of
film and television in the twentieth century. But there was nothing
in film or TV that prepared us for the revolution wrought by the
combination of screens and the internet. Society has been
transformed and this book asks how and with what consequences?
Screen Society's conclusions are based on an original research
project conducted by scholars in the UK and Australia. The
researchers designed their own research platform and elicited the
thoughts and opinions of nearly 2000 participants, to draw together
insights of today's society as seen by users of smartphones,
tablets and computers - what the authors call Screenagers. The book
issues challenges to accepted wisdom on many of the so-called
problems associated with our persistent use of screen devices,
including screen addiction, trolling, gaming and gambling.
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