Pretty Disgusted Honestly

Exploring Fans’ Affective Responses on Facebook to the Modified Rules of Australian Football League Women’s

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7323973
AutoresAdele Pavlidis (0000-0002-9218-6572, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, autor de correspondencia), Kim Toffoletti (0000-0002-5672-9090, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), Kellie Sanders (0009-0004-7460-2730, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
Año2020
Volumen46
Número1
Páginas103-123
Fecha de publicación2020-10-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0193723520964969
OpenAlexW3093021088
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas50

In this article, we argue that the “turn to affect” can provide a generative framework for working through key sticking points for women in sport. Through an analysis of the rule changes and subsequent social media comments in the lead-up to the inaugural Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) competition, we demonstrate the power of emotions for intensifying and resisting discussion about women’s participation in male-dominated sport, as they accumulate through fan encounters on social media. Through a focus on the expression of emotions such as disappointment and contempt, we interrogate the collective workings of digital affects for constituting gendered knowledge production and subjectivity in sport contexts. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of feminist thinking for sport research and practice

Advertising · Affect (linguistics · Competition (biology · Contempt · Disappointment · Epistemology · Fandom · Football · League · Media studies · Political science · Power (physics · Social media · Sociology · Subjectivity · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society