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The Reality of Fantasy Sports: Transforming Fan Culture in the Digital Age

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This dissertation analyzes the transformation of fantasy sports from a deviant, outside-the-mainstream fan culture to a billion-dollar industry that comprises almost 20 million North American participants. Fantasy sports are games in which participants adopt the simultaneous roles of owner, general manager, and coach of their own teams of real athletes...

Keyword:

sports, popular culture, audience studies, and fan culture

Subject:

Media, Technology and Society

Creator:

Ben Shields

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

09/06/2018

Date Modified:

09/06/2018

Date Created:

2008-04-22

Resource Type:

Dissertation