Gary Sinclair
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 233398 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gary Sinclair |
| NOMBRES | Gary |
| APELLIDO | Sinclair |
| FIRMA | SINCLAIR G |
| AFILIACIONES | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2181-7736 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
How do football fans experience online abuse? Impacts, responses and implications
Online abuse, especially in the context of sport and leisure, is a growing and required area of study. Athletes, journalists and officials have been notably subject to various forms of abuse on major social media platforms, and this, in turn, has prompted responses from scholars, media organisations and sports authorities. One stakeholder who’s experience of online abuse has gone largely unexamined, however, is fans. In existing research, fans ha…
SeAcabó
The victory of the Spanish national women’s football team at the 2023 FIFA World Cup was marred by the mass-mediated non-consensual kiss on midfielder, Jennifer Hermoso, by Luis Rubiales, then President of the Royal Spanish Football National Federation. The kiss sparked general outrage worldwide and led to the prosecution of Rubiales for sexual assault and coercion. Drawing on the concepts of “moral shock” and “social drama,” this article explore…
Exploring online sexism and misogyny in women’s professional English football
The increased professionalization of women’s football means that women players are now competing in front of sold-out capacity crowds with millions of viewers watching. This enhanced popularity has increased online traffic relating to women’s football. Some of these discussions are abusive, and potentially harmful. Nonetheless, while a growing body of research has investigated online harms in football, most of the attention has centred on men’s f…
Online Abuse, Emotion Work and Sports Journalism
This article generates new insights into the changing profession of journalism. Empirically, we present the findings of 21 interviews with journalists working in the Irish and UK sports beats on their experiences of online abuse. Conceptually, we address the under-theorising of emotions in journalism by extending the utility and entanglement of emotion work and emotional labour. In doing so, we posit future lines of theoretical enquiry about indi…
[K]neeling only goes to highlight your ignorance. England is NOT! a #racist country’
Drawing on theories of aversive racism and colour-blindness, which stress the invisibility of contemporary racism, this article analyses online discussions on taking the knee (TTK) during EURO2020 men’s football tournament. While highly visible racist abuse directed at Black English players after losing the final to Italy (dominative racism) received most public attention and repudiation, based on 6,850 English language tweets published on Twitte…
Let the tournament for the woke begin
Exploring online criticisms of the “take the knee” protest during “Euro 2020”, \nthis article examines how alt- and far-right conspiracies were both \nconstructed and communicated via the social media platform, Twitter. By \nproviding a novel exploration of alt-right conspiracies during an international \nfootball tournament, a qualitative thematic analysis of 1,388 original tweets \nrelating to Euro 2020 was undertaken. The findings reveal how, …
Best run club in the world
The term sportswashing has been discussed and analysed within academic circles, as well as the mainstream media. However, the majority of existing research has focused on one-off event-based sportswashing strategies (such as autocratic states hosting major international sports events) rather than longer term investment-based strategies (such as state actors purchasing sports clubs and teams). Furthermore, little has been written about the impact …
The Fetishization of Sport
Is it possible to remain a sports fan when prominent sports teams and events are utilized to 'sportswash' human rights abuses and other controversies? Indeed, while there is an abundance of analyses critiquing different instances of sportswashing, the exploration of the role of sportswashing and its connection to the 'sports fan' presents an essential and necessary area of investigation and theoretical inquiry. To unpick this dilemma, this articl…
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport
The rise of online hate speech in sports is a growing concern, with fans, players and officials subject to racist, sexist and homophobic abuse (in addition to many other prejudices) via social media platforms. While hate speech and discrimination have always been problems in sports, the growth of social media has seen them exacerbated exponentially. As a consequence, policy makers, sport governing bodies and grassroots anti-hate organisations are…
Two Brexits on Twitter
England’s ‘shock’ exit from the Euro 2016 Football Championship and the UK electorate’s decision to (Br)exit from the EU occurred almost simultaneously, providing an interesting lens through which to examine unfolding tensions in the UK and its component identities – all the more so given the presence of two of the three other component countries of the UK, Wales and Northern Ireland, at the Championship. Our analysis of 34,324 original tweets fe…
The broken record
As the recording music industry entered the digital era, significant turmoil emerged due to piracy and illegal downloading, and royalty payments to artists via streaming platforms. To date, the previous research examining the industry shift focused on consumer‐based decisions such as whether to download music illegally, and, more recently, experiences with streaming services. Using sensemaking as our lens, we examine changes and challenges throug…
Music in the time-spectrum
Music streaming, structured by an expanding network of social interdependencies (e.g. musicians, sound engineers, computer scientists and distributors) has made it easier to consume music in a wider number of social and \nprivate spaces and to a greater degree. This paper examines the emotional \nexperience of contemporary music consumption by drawing from an \nEliasian perspective, specifically Elias and Dunning’s sociology of leisure. \nWe expl…
Retreating Behind the Scenes
Heavy metal is a global subculture, developing from its origins in Birmingham city in the 1960s and 1970s. Whilst it incorporates a distinct sound, an easily identifiable style and unique rituals, it has still evolved into a series of subgenres that have incorporated a variety of meanings across the globe. The fact that heavy metal and its fans have been described as 'uncivilized' and that their behaviour has been positioned as 'morally dubious' …
Involvement and Detachment
The macro-micro dichotomy prevalent in consumer research has led to methodological issues this article explores. Drawing from figurational theory and using a three-year participant-observation of heavy metal fans as a case study, this article puts forward a potential route for synthesis between dominant micro and macro perspectives. Merging contemporary consumer research methods with broader figurational theories of historical change and figurati…
Heavy Metal Rituals and the Civilising Process
This research posits that heavy metal music is part of what Elias refers to as a ‘civilising process’. He argues that as society becomes increasingly integrated we are faced with an increasing web of interdependencies and relationships where a growing intricacy is needed in order to manage one’s emotions. Elias and Dunning argue that a result of increasing restraints and the routinisation of social relationships, sport and leisure have attained a…
Development and validation of a self-completed HIV symptom index
Involvement and Detachment
The macro-micro dichotomy prevalent in consumer research has led to methodological issues this article explores. Drawing from figurational theory and using a three-year participant-observation of heavy metal fans as a case study, this article puts forward a potential route for synthesis between dominant micro and macro perspectives. Merging contemporary consumer research methods with broader figurational theories of historical change and figurati…
The Fetishization of Sport
Is it possible to remain a sports fan when prominent sports teams and events are utilized to 'sportswash' human rights abuses and other controversies? Indeed, while there is an abundance of analyses critiquing different instances of sportswashing, the exploration of the role of sportswashing and its connection to the 'sports fan' presents an essential and necessary area of investigation and theoretical inquiry. To unpick this dilemma, this articl…
Let the tournament for the woke begin
Exploring online criticisms of the “take the knee” protest during “Euro 2020”, \nthis article examines how alt- and far-right conspiracies were both \nconstructed and communicated via the social media platform, Twitter. By \nproviding a novel exploration of alt-right conspiracies during an international \nfootball tournament, a qualitative thematic analysis of 1,388 original tweets \nrelating to Euro 2020 was undertaken. The findings reveal how, …
Best run club in the world
The term sportswashing has been discussed and analysed within academic circles, as well as the mainstream media. However, the majority of existing research has focused on one-off event-based sportswashing strategies (such as autocratic states hosting major international sports events) rather than longer term investment-based strategies (such as state actors purchasing sports clubs and teams). Furthermore, little has been written about the impact …
Music in the time-spectrum
Music streaming, structured by an expanding network of social interdependencies (e.g. musicians, sound engineers, computer scientists and distributors) has made it easier to consume music in a wider number of social and \nprivate spaces and to a greater degree. This paper examines the emotional \nexperience of contemporary music consumption by drawing from an \nEliasian perspective, specifically Elias and Dunning’s sociology of leisure. \nWe expl…
[K]neeling only goes to highlight your ignorance. England is NOT! a #racist country’
Drawing on theories of aversive racism and colour-blindness, which stress the invisibility of contemporary racism, this article analyses online discussions on taking the knee (TTK) during EURO2020 men’s football tournament. While highly visible racist abuse directed at Black English players after losing the final to Italy (dominative racism) received most public attention and repudiation, based on 6,850 English language tweets published on Twitte…
SeAcabó
The victory of the Spanish national women’s football team at the 2023 FIFA World Cup was marred by the mass-mediated non-consensual kiss on midfielder, Jennifer Hermoso, by Luis Rubiales, then President of the Royal Spanish Football National Federation. The kiss sparked general outrage worldwide and led to the prosecution of Rubiales for sexual assault and coercion. Drawing on the concepts of “moral shock” and “social drama,” this article explore…
Online Abuse, Emotion Work and Sports Journalism
This article generates new insights into the changing profession of journalism. Empirically, we present the findings of 21 interviews with journalists working in the Irish and UK sports beats on their experiences of online abuse. Conceptually, we address the under-theorising of emotions in journalism by extending the utility and entanglement of emotion work and emotional labour. In doing so, we posit future lines of theoretical enquiry about indi…
Development and validation of a self-completed HIV symptom index
Heavy Metal Rituals and the Civilising Process
This research posits that heavy metal music is part of what Elias refers to as a ‘civilising process’. He argues that as society becomes increasingly integrated we are faced with an increasing web of interdependencies and relationships where a growing intricacy is needed in order to manage one’s emotions. Elias and Dunning argue that a result of increasing restraints and the routinisation of social relationships, sport and leisure have attained a…
Involvement and Detachment
The macro-micro dichotomy prevalent in consumer research has led to methodological issues this article explores. Drawing from figurational theory and using a three-year participant-observation of heavy metal fans as a case study, this article puts forward a potential route for synthesis between dominant micro and macro perspectives. Merging contemporary consumer research methods with broader figurational theories of historical change and figurati…
Retreating Behind the Scenes
Heavy metal is a global subculture, developing from its origins in Birmingham city in the 1960s and 1970s. Whilst it incorporates a distinct sound, an easily identifiable style and unique rituals, it has still evolved into a series of subgenres that have incorporated a variety of meanings across the globe. The fact that heavy metal and its fans have been described as 'uncivilized' and that their behaviour has been positioned as 'morally dubious' …
Music in the time-spectrum
Music streaming, structured by an expanding network of social interdependencies (e.g. musicians, sound engineers, computer scientists and distributors) has made it easier to consume music in a wider number of social and \nprivate spaces and to a greater degree. This paper examines the emotional \nexperience of contemporary music consumption by drawing from an \nEliasian perspective, specifically Elias and Dunning’s sociology of leisure. \nWe expl…
The broken record
As the recording music industry entered the digital era, significant turmoil emerged due to piracy and illegal downloading, and royalty payments to artists via streaming platforms. To date, the previous research examining the industry shift focused on consumer‐based decisions such as whether to download music illegally, and, more recently, experiences with streaming services. Using sensemaking as our lens, we examine changes and challenges throug…
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport
The rise of online hate speech in sports is a growing concern, with fans, players and officials subject to racist, sexist and homophobic abuse (in addition to many other prejudices) via social media platforms. While hate speech and discrimination have always been problems in sports, the growth of social media has seen them exacerbated exponentially. As a consequence, policy makers, sport governing bodies and grassroots anti-hate organisations are…
Two Brexits on Twitter
England’s ‘shock’ exit from the Euro 2016 Football Championship and the UK electorate’s decision to (Br)exit from the EU occurred almost simultaneously, providing an interesting lens through which to examine unfolding tensions in the UK and its component identities – all the more so given the presence of two of the three other component countries of the UK, Wales and Northern Ireland, at the Championship. Our analysis of 34,324 original tweets fe…
[K]neeling only goes to highlight your ignorance. England is NOT! a #racist country’
Drawing on theories of aversive racism and colour-blindness, which stress the invisibility of contemporary racism, this article analyses online discussions on taking the knee (TTK) during EURO2020 men’s football tournament. While highly visible racist abuse directed at Black English players after losing the final to Italy (dominative racism) received most public attention and repudiation, based on 6,850 English language tweets published on Twitte…
Let the tournament for the woke begin
Exploring online criticisms of the “take the knee” protest during “Euro 2020”, \nthis article examines how alt- and far-right conspiracies were both \nconstructed and communicated via the social media platform, Twitter. By \nproviding a novel exploration of alt-right conspiracies during an international \nfootball tournament, a qualitative thematic analysis of 1,388 original tweets \nrelating to Euro 2020 was undertaken. The findings reveal how, …
Best run club in the world
The term sportswashing has been discussed and analysed within academic circles, as well as the mainstream media. However, the majority of existing research has focused on one-off event-based sportswashing strategies (such as autocratic states hosting major international sports events) rather than longer term investment-based strategies (such as state actors purchasing sports clubs and teams). Furthermore, little has been written about the impact …
The Fetishization of Sport
Is it possible to remain a sports fan when prominent sports teams and events are utilized to 'sportswash' human rights abuses and other controversies? Indeed, while there is an abundance of analyses critiquing different instances of sportswashing, the exploration of the role of sportswashing and its connection to the 'sports fan' presents an essential and necessary area of investigation and theoretical inquiry. To unpick this dilemma, this articl…
SeAcabó
The victory of the Spanish national women’s football team at the 2023 FIFA World Cup was marred by the mass-mediated non-consensual kiss on midfielder, Jennifer Hermoso, by Luis Rubiales, then President of the Royal Spanish Football National Federation. The kiss sparked general outrage worldwide and led to the prosecution of Rubiales for sexual assault and coercion. Drawing on the concepts of “moral shock” and “social drama,” this article explore…
Exploring online sexism and misogyny in women’s professional English football
The increased professionalization of women’s football means that women players are now competing in front of sold-out capacity crowds with millions of viewers watching. This enhanced popularity has increased online traffic relating to women’s football. Some of these discussions are abusive, and potentially harmful. Nonetheless, while a growing body of research has investigated online harms in football, most of the attention has centred on men’s f…
Online Abuse, Emotion Work and Sports Journalism
This article generates new insights into the changing profession of journalism. Empirically, we present the findings of 21 interviews with journalists working in the Irish and UK sports beats on their experiences of online abuse. Conceptually, we address the under-theorising of emotions in journalism by extending the utility and entanglement of emotion work and emotional labour. In doing so, we posit future lines of theoretical enquiry about indi…
How do football fans experience online abuse? Impacts, responses and implications
Online abuse, especially in the context of sport and leisure, is a growing and required area of study. Athletes, journalists and officials have been notably subject to various forms of abuse on major social media platforms, and this, in turn, has prompted responses from scholars, media organisations and sports authorities. One stakeholder who’s experience of online abuse has gone largely unexamined, however, is fans. In existing research, fans ha…
Sociology (11 obras) · Sports, Gender, and Society (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Media studies (6 obras) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (6 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Football (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras)