Creating and consuming content: exploring member engagement and role acceptance within an online tennis forum
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Technology continues to find new ways influence how sport is consumed and experienced. Online forums, for example, offer fans the opportunity spectate, debate, celebrate their favourite sports, competitions, athletes. Sport enthusiasts can use them post information, ask questions, opinions, or share comments as they seek communicate with like-minded individuals. We were interested in interpersonal dynamics within a popular international online tennis forum. used systems theory explore posters sought create consume content an inherently dynamic environment. Utilizing netnography approach, we observed group 19,782 messages posted 54 discussion threads. focused on daily discussions concerning professional (players, matches, equipment). Results revealed interpreted, critiqued, debated events forum practices. Social often complex fulfill various emergent roles goals simultaneously harmonious adversarial
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عنوان ژورنال: Leisure/loisir
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2151-2221', '1492-7713']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2021.1910069