Importance Of Fandom Subculture

Although traditional sports with testosterone high clashes and full grown men butting helmets are still popular across the country, their prominence has started to fade from the younger generation. This is perhaps a result of the decline in sport activities. Fifty years ago sports were played by almost every kid-regardless of whether that kid made it onto his high school basketball team, they were simply a way of life. Naturally, as the children of that generation grew up they took an interest in watching the sports they had loved during their childhood, now played by professional athletes. Watching sports is both an exciting, adrenaline pumping present day activity, as well as a reminiscent reminder of the long summers they spent playing baseball back in the sixties.

Popular culture reflects the past and continues to show the society how it has been created and influenced. Popular culture is a collective idea that is created by many individuals, not just one. In the society, culture is created by a collective group that believes a particular idea or thing should be a culture that spread to people. It allows new discoveries, projects, or ideas to make culture more popular among the people of the society. In addition, the article also explores why culture is popular since “popular” has different connotations attached to the word. It could mean that it is widely well liked by the society or people are able to recognize the figure or icon. For instance, Princess Diana is an icon that is easily recognized and many people know who she is and what happens in her life. With iconic figures, music, and media, it is unlikely for popular culture to go unnoticed in the society, especially if it is everywhere. Culture also refers to other ideas other than just beliefs and norms. Culture can be music, art history, or a way of life. As the audience of popular culture, we tend to draw on social identities and life experiences to understand media and popular

Sports of old were merely competitive activities rooted in heroism and romanticism. Sports activities today, however, have no such innocence or simplicity. Currently in America, the activities that make up our sports culture is not only the competitive events themselves but the processes and issues that underlie and surround them. Entwined in our sports culture is the giant business of mass broadcasting. Indeed, sports and the media go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly, like Mickey and Minnie, Darth Vader and Luke. They are intertwined and depend on each other to continue to grow. Sports media includes television, radio, magazines, newspapers, books, films, and, now, most importantly, social media devices provided by the

In Chapter 10 of Religion and Popular Culture in America, Joseph L. Price attempts to show sports as an example of popular culture as religion, because of its ability to shape the engagement of their fans and the fan’s environments. Although the majority of fans do not see sports as coming close to being a religion, Price gives several compelling reasons as to why sports are religion.

There has never been a time when popular culture has been more pervasive and influential in American society. With advances in technology and creative innovation, outlets for popular culture have expanded greatly and are virtually innumerable. Through the consumption of television, music, magazines, movies, newspapers, blogs, and memes to name a few, American citizens and others around the globe are inundated with ideals and images that work to mold their collective psyche by impacting every facet of their daily lives and by providing a critique of modern-day society. Perhaps much of the influence of popular culture lies in the fact that its primary function is to appeal to the masses;

Some may say that sports have always been an important aspect of the United States’ culture. Reviewing modern day society is relatively easy to see how this hypothesis could be proven. The majority of American’s watch one major sport with almost a pious devotion. In fact, even the percentage of the populace who do not enjoy watching various sports activity know at least something about the sports, team, and its players. However, in the world with many sports to participate and be a spectator of America seems very selective with their sports obsession. An obsession that has been known to take over their lives during the season.

Growing up in Atlanta, I was surrounded and engulfed with the culture of sports and fandom; I cheered for each of the hometown teams: The Hawks, The Falcons, and The Braves and I was proud of my association with these teams. I enjoyed (and still do) the camaraderie and family atmosphere that attending a game or watching the game on television with family and friends encompasses. As a young child, I believed that sports were a pastime that brought people of all races, genders, and creeds together. As a child, I attended many local collegiate and professional games, I believed that sports were an inclusive activity and that my experience with participating in sports and being ridiculed and ostracized was an isolated occurrence. Therefore, this

Sport fandom and how it can affect the life of the fan. Sport fans have the biggest impact in the sports world business and those fans alike are impacted substantially by the sports they decide to watch. There are various degrees as to how far fans will go for the team they choose to follow and be a part of. Team logos are very hard to miss when they are seen everywhere in everyday life on clothing, vehicles, and even the fan’s skin and this happens because fans will go to almost any extreme to show their devotion to their respective team. (Mullan, 2009)

As a theater artist, I’ve never had time for sports. I looked at the world and it’s people through the eyes of a Shakespeare geek, and thought throwing around a ball and cheering for people wearing certain colors was a waste of time. Never in my wildest dreams would I think of giving football the time of day, but that was before I became a mascot. By some kind of luck and desperation for a job I have ended up as the Piper: the red and grey sports mascot of Hamline. Through this job I have come to see how sports can help bring together diverse groups of people, and inspire the spectators to be their best selves.

Ultimately how does one develop into a sports fan? While every person is different when it comes to sports, in one way or another, we all have been lured to the spectacle of the game. But who ultimately influences a person’s choice of sports team to cheer for? Is it TV? Is it Geography? Is it peers? Teachers, coaches, family… what? The answer’s surprisingly simple! In an overwhelming number of public responses, it’s Dad! Dad decides and is how the creation of a sports fan is born.

Tailgating is that unique event of sports and leisure tourism. However, the bulk of the research on tailgating overlooks the social aspects of tailgating and focuses on the negatives of tailgating (i.e. Binge drinking) or the cost of tailgating. On the aspect of research on the social dynamics of tailgating little has been done. The intention of this ethnographic research is to understand the social dynamics of how people, tailgaters, interact with one another, whether the tailgaters are for the home or visiting team.

Everyone is a fan of something, whether it is a band, a sports team, a television show, or a certain brand of shoe. There is something for everyone. Fan studies is the study of fans and their cultures, looking at how fans interact with each other, how they express themselves and “‘secondary texts’ produced by fans, such as fan fiction, art-work inspired by a particular cultural object or performer, and other forms of cultural production” (Gasher Skinner Lorimer, 137).

I was raised in an environment where football was, and remains, a cultural staple. My family lives and breathes for Friday night lights. My passion for the game is bigger than that of the typical Texan’s. It has been a uniting force in my life. My first bonding experiences with my extended family involved

Fandom is one of the defining concepts in the modern society. But what exactly makes it so important? The answer is fairly simple. Fans. „It is fans who identify and build an audience“(Branston and Stafford, 2006). The people, who, out of their own free will participate and create communities which are based around a certain artefact of their choosing. These communities then proceed to debate and often create their own content, which is subordinate to their chosen text, such as any fan work – fanfiction and fan art- or memes (Slade, Narro and Givens-Carroll, 2015).

As one of the most popular and followed sports in the world, soccer is more than a pastime in many of world’s regions. The sport is often compared to a religion, with the fans at every match being the equivalent of a congregation. In most religions, the congregation typically feels a sense of commonality and a bond among them that is the result of their shared belief: This is the same with football. Although club football does inspire this sense of unity and oneness, its ability to do so does not quite compare to that of international soccer to do the same. Although the fans of an international soccer team usually share more than just their mutual support for the team, watching their team play often has the same effect among them as their ancestors