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The media and football supporters: a changing relationship
journal contribution
posted on 2013-04-16, 13:34 authored by Jamie ClelandThe research presented in this article The development of ‘new’ media at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s has radically
changed the relationship between the media and football supporters. Firstly, a growth in
media sources created a very competitive media environment and, secondly, led to greater
interaction between the media and its audience. Drawing on forty seven semi-structured
interviews with media personnel and eight hundred and twenty seven questionnaires
completed by supporters at four football clubs, this article assesses how fans consume the
many media sources that now exist and the level of involvement for supporters in the media.
The results indicated a balance of consumption between ‘old’ and ‘new’ media as well as
highlighting the contrasting strategies each media source had put in place to involve
supporters. The article concludes by suggesting that there remains a place for those media
sources which involve their target audience.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Citation
CLELAND, J., 2011. The media and football supporters: a changing relationship. Media Culture and Society, 33 (2), pp. 299 - 315.Publisher
Sage © The AuthorVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2011Notes
This article was published in the journal, Media, Culture & Society [SAGE © The Author] and the definitive version is available at: htpp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443710393866ISSN
0163-4437Publisher version
Language
- en