Sports Fans 2.0: How Fans Are Using Social Media to Get Closer to the Game

by David M. Sutera

As of 2012, Twitter has over 100 million active users worldwide, and sports fans and athletes have proven to be some of the most prolific and adept users of Twitter and other social media platforms. In Sports Fans 2.0, David M. Sutera explores the increasingly participatory nature of contemporary sports fandom and spectatorship. He examines the ways in which digital media has created and facilitated new channels for sports fan engagement, and how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810890763
• ISBN13: 9780810890763
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"