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The transition of second screen devices to first screen status in sport viewing

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posted on 2019-04-02, 13:12 authored by Hibai Lopez-Gonzalez, Constantino Stavros, Aaron SmithAaron Smith
It has been generally argued that, despite the emergence and wide adoption of second screen devices (SSD) as ancillary tools, television screens continue to be the medium of choice for watching live sport. In this article, however, we maintain that a transition of SSD to first screen status is already underway. First, we dispute that SSD content and screen size present barriers to use. Second, we suggest that a first screen transition of SSD is a fact in many emerging economies. Finally, we argue that the transformation of screens as payment and tracking devices, to which we intimately relate, has been largely overlooked when assessing the likelihood of SSD becoming first screens, and that the replacement of television by SSD is symptomatic of a broader transition from collective to individual consumption devices.

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  • Loughborough University London

Published in

Sport in Society

Volume

22

Issue

12

Pages

2077 - 2088

Citation

LOPEZ-GONZALEZ, H., STAVROS, C. and SMITH, A.C., 2018. The transition of second screen devices to first screen status in sport viewing. Sport in Society, 22 (12), pp.2077-2088.

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© Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2018-12-30

Notes

This paper is closed access.

ISSN

1743-0437

eISSN

1743-0445

Language

  • en

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