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Stephanie Orme - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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“Just watching”: A qualitative analysis of non-players’ motivations for video game Spectatorship:
New Media & Society, 2021Co-Authors: Stephanie OrmeAbstract:This study explores the phenomenon of video game Spectatorship from the perspective of a population I refer to as “just watchers.” Previous studies have tended to focus on game Spectatorship from t...
Graham Cairns - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The hybridization of sight in the hybrid architecture of sport: the effects of television on stadia and Spectatorship
Sport in Society, 2014Co-Authors: Graham CairnsAbstract:A year after the 2012 Olympics in London, and as the authorities of Brazil prepare for the forthcoming Olympics and football's World Cup, this paper examines the influence of the televised media image on the development and design of sports stadia, and the nature of contemporary sports Spectatorship. Arguing that globalized television has turned sport into an international media event, it will suggest that its architecture has mutated into a semi-real, semi-virtual phenomenon in which the difference between the physical structure and its mediated image has definitively blurred. Drawing upon the ideas of Paul Virilio, we suggest that a concomitant blurring in terms of Spectatorship is one of the results. In this new mediated realm the nature of vision human itself threatens to morph and evolve as it merges with mediated visualization.
Neil Armitage - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Football Theatre: the socio-psychological mechanisms and significance of football Spectatorship
2013Co-Authors: Neil ArmitageAbstract:Research on football Spectatorship initially developed in response to football hooliganism and crowd disorder as a social problem in Britain. More recently the literature has attempted to outline changing patterns in Spectatorship stemming from increased commodification under the dynamics of globalization. Yet very little research has actually attempted to understand and theorise the socio-psychological mechanisms at play and the significance of football or sports Spectatorship for those involved. Using autoethnography in football stadia and focus groups with rival football spectators in Seville and Manchester, the paper outlines the importance of socialisation, inside and outside the stadia, in shaping the emotional significance of sports Spectatorship for those involved. ‘The Football Theatre’ is used as a metaphor and as a model to analyse the behaviour of actors entering, engaging in, and exiting the stadia. This includes a revision of Giulianotti’s (2002) taxonomy of spectator identities. The paper illustrates that the persuasion and contagion of emotions in stadia rests on actors ability to suspend ambivalence. The paper also argues that the continued commodification of football is likely to increase ambivalence both on and off match days for spectators.
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Flag waving and breaking : A study into the Socio-Psychological Mechanisms and Significance of Football Spectatorship
2006Co-Authors: Neil ArmitageAbstract:Flag waving and breaking : A study into the Socio-Psychological Mechanisms and Significance of Football Spectatorship
Nica Siegel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Scenes of Execution: Spectatorship, Political Responsibility, and State Killing in American Film
Law & Social Inquiry, 2014Co-Authors: Austin Sarat, Madeline Chan, Maia Cole, Melissa Lang, Nicholas Schcolnik, Jasjaap Sidhu, Nica SiegelAbstract:For as long as there have been motion pictures, scenes of execution have appeared in American film. This article examines those scenes over the course of the twentieth century and suggests that Spectatorship, and what it means to watch, is central to scenes of execution in film. We are interested less in the intentions and politics of a filmmaker and more in what those scenes offer viewers. We argue that three central motifs of Spectatorship characterized death penalty films during the more than 100-year period that we studied. First, viewers are often positioned as members of an audience and many scenes of execution are presented in a highly theatrical fashion and, as a result, the line between Spectatorship and witnessing is blurred. Second, in many scenes of execution viewers are brought “backstage” and provided chilling, intimate views of the machinery of death, privileged views unavailable outside of film. The third motif shifts the positioning of the viewer such that we stand in the shoes of those who are to be executed. We conclude by asking whether and how scenes of execution in American film provoke in viewers an awareness of the political responsibility inherent in their identities as democratic citizens in a killing state.
Brian Wilson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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distinctions in the stands an investigation of bourdieu s habitus socioeconomic status and sport Spectatorship in canada
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 1999Co-Authors: Philip White, Brian WilsonAbstract:In this article a study of sport Spectatorship in Canada is presented, along with an argument for reconsidering the employment of quantitative methodology in the critical study of social inequalities in sport. Both Bourdieu's theoretical position on class distinction and sport and his methodological approach (the statistical analysis of survey data) are adopted in this study. Our multivariate analysis of the 1992 General Social Survey of Canada (n=9815) afforded controlled tests of hypotheses on the effects of income and education on both amateur and professional sport Spectatorship. The findings showed, in general, positive relationships between socioeconomic status and attendance at both professional and amateur events. The effects of income and education work independently, however, and differ according to gender and whether Spectatorship was at professional or amateur events. An ancillary set of findings showed that residents of western Canada spectate more at amateur sport than those in eastern Canad...
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DISTINCTIONS IN THE STANDS: An Investigation of Bourdieu's `Habitus', Socioeconomic Status and Sport Spectatorship in Canada
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 1999Co-Authors: Philip White, Brian WilsonAbstract:In this article a study of sport Spectatorship in Canada is presented, along with an argument for reconsidering the employment of quantitative methodology in the critical study of social inequalities in sport. Both Bourdieu's theoretical position on class distinction and sport and his methodological approach (the statistical analysis of survey data) are adopted in this study. Our multivariate analysis of the 1992 General Social Survey of Canada (n=9815) afforded controlled tests of hypotheses on the effects of income and education on both amateur and professional sport Spectatorship. The findings showed, in general, positive relationships between socioeconomic status and attendance at both professional and amateur events. The effects of income and education work independently, however, and differ according to gender and whether Spectatorship was at professional or amateur events. An ancillary set of findings showed that residents of western Canada spectate more at amateur sport than those in eastern Canad...
