Turner, Mark. (2012). Modern ‘live’ football: moving from the panoptican gaze to the performative, virtual and carnivalesque. Sport in Society, 1 June 2012, ifirst, pp. 1-9
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Abstract
Drawing on Redhead's discussion of Baudrillard as a theorist of hyperreality, the paper considers the different ways in which the mediatized ‘live’ football spectacle is often modelled on the ‘live’ however eventually usurps the ‘live’ forms position in the cultural economy, thus beginning to replicate the mediatized ‘live’. The blurring of the ‘live’ and ‘real’ through an accelerated mediatization of football allows the formation of an imagined community mobilized by the working class whilst mediated through the sanitization, selling of ‘events’ and the middle classing of football, through the re-encoding of sporting spaces and strategic decision-making about broadcasting. A culture of pub supporting then allows potential for working-class supporters to remove themselves from the panoptican gazing systems of late modern hyperreal football stadia and into carnivalesque performative spaces, which in many cases are hyperreal and simulated themselves.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology SPORT AND TOURISM > Sport Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE > Cultural Studies ARTS, MEDIA AND HUMANITIES > Media Production SPORT AND TOURISM > Tourism and Leisure |
Faculties: | Faculty of Business Sport & Enterprise > Sport, Tourism & Languages |
Depositing User: | Mark Turner |
Date Deposited: | 08 Jan 2013 10:28 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jun 2014 07:53 |
URI: | https://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/id/eprint/2334 |
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