[Commlist] Transformative Works and Cultures Volume #45, Sports Fandoms published

/Transformative Works and Cultures/ has released No. 45, “Sports Fandoms 
<https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/89>”, 
guest edited by Jason Kido Lopez and Lori Kido Lopez.

This issue “explore[s] both unconventional sports fan objects and 
underexaminedsports fan expressions.” As the editors of the special 
issue explain:

“When sports fandom is understood from the center outward, hegemonic 
assumptions about who fans are and how they engage with sports often go 
unquestioned. By shifting our focus to the boundaries, we uncover 
insights that complicate and expand our understanding of sports fandom 
as a whole. With this approach, this issue demonstrates that the 
intersections of sport, media, and fandom continue to evolve in 
unexpected and dynamic ways.”

Some examples from the issue include:

  * Fandom, speculation, and capitalist space-time at the Crypto.com
    Arena
 <https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2665>
  * The historical marginalization of Black fans at Major League
    Baseball games
 <https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2649>
  * Institutionally appointed fan-athletes: The hegemonic
    performativity, commodification, and consumption of scholastic dance
    teams
 <https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2661>
  * Fanception on ice!!!: Cycles of choreographic adaptation and fandom
    in figure skating
 <https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2705>
  * The commodification of affections among Taylor Swift's and Travis
    Kelce's fan communities and the Cetaphil Super Bowl 2024
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 <https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/management/settings/The%20commodification%20of%20affections%20among%20Taylor%20Swift's%20and%20Travis%20Kelce's%20fan%20communities%20and%20the%20Cetaphil%20Super%20Bowl%202024%20advertisement>


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