Playing Fans

Playing Fans
Author: Paul Booth
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-03-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1609383192

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"From Gifs to vids, from tourist attractions to digital costuming, from Trekkers to Inspector Spacetime, Media Play illuminates the multiple economic, cultural, and social links between fans and the media industries"--

Female Fans of the NFL

Female Fans of the NFL
Author: Anne Cunningham Osborne
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2015-09-16
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1317663780

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In the past, sport, particularly football, has been defined as a male domain. Women’s interest stereotypically ranges from gentle tolerance to active resistance. But increasingly, women are proudly identifying themselves as supporters of their teams, and have become highly desirable audiences for sport organizations and merchandisers. Football provides a unique site at which to examine the complex interplay between three theoretical areas: identity formation and maintenance, commercialization of cultural practices, and gender hegemony. This book explores how women experience their fandom, and what barriers exist for the female fan.

Playing Nice

Playing Nice
Author: Mary Jo Festle
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1996
Genre: Sex differences (Psychology)
ISBN: 9780231101622

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Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.

Introduction to 2023 World Baseball Classic

Introduction to 2023 World Baseball Classic
Author: Gilad James, PhD
Publisher: Gilad James Mystery School
Total Pages: 78
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 4359807066

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The World Baseball Classic (WBC) is an international baseball tournament featuring national teams from around the world. The tournament was first held in 2006 and has since been held every four years. The upcoming WBC will take place in 2023 and will be the fifth edition of the tournament. It will feature 20 teams from around the world, including 16 teams from the previous edition, and four teams that will qualify through regional tournaments. The WBC is organized by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) and is one of the most prestigious baseball tournaments in the world, with millions of fans tuning in to watch the games. The tournament is designed to showcase the best of international baseball and promote the growth of the sport around the world. The upcoming WBC promises to be a thrilling tournament with high-quality baseball, intense rivalries, and a chance for countries to showcase their national pride on the global stage.

REQUIEM FOR A GAME

REQUIEM FOR A GAME
Author: Robert Williams
Publisher: Robert Williams
Total Pages: 181
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Satirical and raunchy look at football in which a former NFL linebacker looks back on his life after realizing he has a head injury caused by playing football.

The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed.

The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed.
Author: Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 1112
Release: 2016-03-25
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476617449

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More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America's culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues' decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.

Playing to the Crowd

Playing to the Crowd
Author: Nancy K. Baym
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018-07-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1479803030

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Explains what happened to music—for both artists and fans—when music went online. Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms has transformed artist-fan relationships into something closer to friendship or family. Through in-depth interviews with musicians such as Billy Bragg and Richie Hawtin, as well as members of the Cure, UB40, and Throwing Muses, Baym reveals how new media has facilitated these connections through the active, and often required, participation of the artists and their devoted, digital fan base. Before the rise of social sharing and user-generated content, fans were mostly seen as an undifferentiated and unidentifiable mass, often mediated through record labels and the press. However, in today’s networked era, musicians and fans have built more active relationships through social media, fan sites, and artist sites, giving fans a new sense of intimacy and offering artists unparalleled information about their audiences. However, this comes at a price. For audiences, meeting their heroes can kill the mystique. And for artists, maintaining active relationships with so many people can be both personally and financially draining, as well as extremely labor intensive. Drawing on her own rich history as an active and deeply connected music fan, Baym offers an entirely new approach to media culture, arguing that the work musicians put in to create and maintain these intimate relationships reflect the demands of the gig economy, one which requires resources and strategies that we must all come to recognize and appreciate.

The Sixth Man

The Sixth Man
Author: Andre Iguodala
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0525533982

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**The Instant National Bestseller** The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth man of the Golden State Warriors. Fresh off the Warriors’ fourth Finals win in eight years, Andre Iguodala long has been one of the most admired players in the NBA. Off the court, Iguodala has earned respect, too—for his successful tech investments, his philanthropy, and increasingly for his contributions to the conversation about race in America. It is no surprise, then, that in his first book, Andre, with his cowriter Carvell Wallace, has pushed himself to go further than he ever has before about his life, not only as an athlete but about what makes him who he is at his core. The Sixth Man traces Andre’s journey from childhood in his Illinois hometown to his Bay Area home court today. Basketball has always been there. But this is the story, too, of his experience of the conflict and racial tension always at hand in a professional league made up largely of African American men; of whether and why the athlete owes the total sacrifice of his body; of the relationship between competition and brotherhood among the players of one of history’s most glorious championship teams. And of what motivates an athlete to keep striving for more once they’ve already achieved the highest level of play they could have dreamed. On drive, on leadership, on pain, on accomplishment, on the shame of being given a role, and the glory of taking a role on: This is a powerful memoir of life and basketball that reveals new depths to the superstar athlete, and offers tremendous insight into most urgent stories being told in American society today.