Digital Football Cultures: Fandom, Identities and Resistance

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 The hyperdigitalization of football cultures
Part 1 Theorizing digital football cultures and fandom
	2 “Feel it closing in”: digital football cultures in a claustropolitan age
	3 Transnational digital fandom: club media, place, and (networked) space
	4 Between old and new traditions: transnational solidarities and the love for Liverpool FC
Part 2 Football and social media
	5 From backstage to frontstage: exploring football and the growing problem of online abuse
	6 Gender trouble in digital football fandom: a Swedish perspective
	7 Shifting patterns of football fandom and digital media cultures: YouTube, Fifa videogames, and AFC Wimbledon
Part 3 Football (sub)cybercultures
	8 Exploring the digitalization of football violence: ultras, disembodiment, and the Internet
	9 Football videogames: re-shaping football and re-defining fandom in a postmodern era
	10 Restoring “the Football Kingdom of the Far East”: the limited potential of videogames for the development and promotion of Hong Kong football
	11 “Good morning beautiful people . . . I love you but I’ll beat your arse in Fifa 17”: the negotiation of social capital and Fifa 17 match-making of Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson Twitter
	12 Football 2.0? the (un)changing nature of football and its possible futures
Index