Sports Knowledge is Power

Reinforcing Masculine Privilege Through Fantasy Sport League Participation

Bibliographic Data

ID2348964
AuthorsNickolas W Davis, Margaret Carlisle Duncan (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Year2006
Volume30
Issue3
Pages244-264
Publication date2006-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0193723506290324
OpenAlexW2149901889
LanguageEN
Citations received39
References cited24

As of August 2003, 15.2 million American adults participated in fantasy sports. Fantasy sport allows online participants to assume the roles of owners, managers, and coaches of professional teams, building franchises and experiencing every phase of the process (i.e., drafting athletes, trading players, signing free agents, submitting lineups). Despite its great popularity, there is a paucity of research investigating fantasy sports. Taking a pro-feminist approach, the current study examines the appeals and experiences of participants and the audience to whom fantasy sport leagues are directed. Using personal observations, textual analysis, and focus group responses of three male fantasy leaguers, the current study indicates that fantasy sports reinforce hegemonic ideologies in sport spectatorship, emphasizing authority, sports knowledge, competition, male-bonding, and traditional gender roles

Advertising · Art · Athletes · Fantasy · Hegemony · Ideology · League · Literature · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Power (physics · Digital Games and Media · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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