Keep Your Fans to Yourself: The Disjuncture between Sport Studies' and Pop Culture Studies' Perspectives on Fandom

This essay explores different understandings of fans and fandom between sport studies and pop culture studies through presentation of survey data originally collected for a study on global fandom/global fan studies. Email surveys from 65 fan scholars around the world reveal important distinctions be...

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Published in:Sport in society 2007-07, Vol.10 (4), p.580-600
Main Authors: Schimmel, Kimberly S., Harrington, C. Lee, Bielby, Denise D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clients
Popular Culture
Sports Participation
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Summary:This essay explores different understandings of fans and fandom between sport studies and pop culture studies through presentation of survey data originally collected for a study on global fandom/global fan studies. Email surveys from 65 fan scholars around the world reveal important distinctions between sport scholars and pop culture scholars in terms of their basic understandings of fans and fandom, the role of self-reflexivity in fan research, and the location of sport and other pop culture scholarship in the academy. Analysis points to a disjuncture between sport and pop culture fan studies that ultimately limits the ability to fully understand the range of fan experiences and fandoms.
ISSN:1743-0437
1743-0445
DOI:10.1080/17430430701388764