Being a football kid: football as a mediatised play practice
Publication details
| Year: | 2016 |
| Issued: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Start Page: | 161 |
| End Page: | 175 |
| Editors: | Schwell A.; Buchowski A.; Kowalska M.; Szogs N. |
| Authors: | Johansen S. L. |
| Type: | Book chapter |
| Book title: | New ethnographies of football in Europe : people, passions, politics |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Topics: | Other |
| Sample: | empirical fieldwork among Danish children aged 8 to 13 |
Abstract
Media and mediatization must be seen as a prerequisite for children’s play today. Children’s fan cultures cover a wide range of topics; yet, football is a field with specific explanatory power due to its structural and cultural specificities. In this chapter, football is seen as a specific play practice, carried out both physically and through engagements with a diverse range of traditional and new media. The chapter draws on empirical fieldwork among Danish children aged 8 to 13, describing football kids as active users of media, active play practitioners, and active performers of identity projects in relation to friends and family. For these children, football as a mediatized play practice is their point of departure, forming the grounds of their everyday practices.
Outcome
describing football kids as active users of media, active play practitioners, and active performers of identity projects in relation to friends and family. For these children, football as a mediatized play practice is their point of departure, forming the grounds of their everyday practices