Description:
This is the first book to bring together key contemporary debates at the intersection of football studies, leisure studies and digital cultural studies. Presenting cutting edge theoretical and empirical work, Digital Football Cultures argues that we are witnessing the hyper-digitalization of the world's most popular sport.
Review Quotes:
"a volume that will serve as a foundational reference for future studies in digital fandom and culture for years to come ... Summing Up: Highly recommended." - J. R. Mitrano, Central Connecticut State University, CHOICE May 2019
"This book provides interesting and critical insights into an immensely complex social technology which affects all cultures in our modern world, and each chapter provides a launching point for further research or discussion. It offers valuable contributions to an underrepresented area of focus within digitalisation and football studies." - Lise Joern, University of Southern Denmark " [This book] points to an experience of supporters which today is more genuinely international, following the game online, building fan communities, expressing a cultural ownership of club, team, and players, in a manner not always welcome." -Mark Perryman, Philosophy Football