Search results for "spectator"

Segmenting the spectators of national team sports: the case of a pre-competition match

2015

It has become common for academics and sports marketing professionals to study and explain the heterogeneity and complexity of sports spectators' behaviours and attitudes, with numerous works addressing this topic But these surveys are more about fans of professional sports clubs (soccer, basketball, baseball, hockey, etc) who attend regular season games in their favourite teams' home stadium or arena. To our knowledge, very few studies have been conducted into spectators of national teams. It is these spectators who are of the focus of this paper.

Reflexive Modernization and the Disembedding of Jūdō from 1946 to the 2000 Sydney Olympics

2004

This article considers some of the sociologically significant changes to jūdō in its process of transformation from a Budō based martial art into a modern competitive spectator sport. Taking the period of time from 1946 until the Sydney Olympics, an examination is undertaken using Giddens’s notion of reflexive modernization in which key aspects of the original jūdō are disembedded or ‘lifted out’ of the practice. They are then re-embedded with western structures, practices and meanings. Central themes to emerge from this analysis are the social forces of internationalization, institutionalization and commodification of jūdō over this period, each of which contributes to a reflexive moderni…

Spectators'identification with French sports teams: a French adaptation of the sport spectator identification scale

2007

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Kurioza w polskim teatrze współczesnym

2016

Współczesny polski teatr opiera się na zmianie kierunku relacji: od komunikacji z tradycją ku komunikacji z odbiorcą. Katarzyna Fazan widzi jej początki w inscenizacji Iwony, księżniczki Burgunda Grzegorza Jarzyny z 1997 r. Dalsze działania są konsekwencją m.in. wprowadzenia kategorii kuriozum. Rozpatrywane jest ono na dwóch polach: w obrębie sceny i poza nią. Dla Mai Kleczewskiej kurioza są krzywym zwierciadłem dla zbiorowości i widzów, ustanawiającym granicę między „swoim” a „obcym”. Radosław Rychcik rozumie kuriozum dosłownie, nawiązując do postaci z amerykańskiego kina. Natomiast Krzysztof Garbaczewski inscenizuje zachowania i reakcje widzów; jego eksperymenty oscylują wokół kategorii t…

Współczesny folkloryzm

2018

Carnival stands not only for the festive time set by the religious calendar, but also for all games and shows which are part of the urban pop culture. Theoretical reflection on carnivalisation, i.e. a specific model of participation in culture, was initiated by Mikhail Bakhtin. The process of progressive carnivalisation of the urban space is associated with the development of spectator folklorism on the one hand and desementisation of the folk rituals on the other, i.e. with the expansion of festive events, which create common festive activity. The author brings up examples of carnivalisation of the public space in Polish towns from the Middle Ages until the contemporary times when the said…

Positioning the Supply of Live Performance: Innovative Managerial Practices Relating to the Interaction of Spectator, Performance and Venue

2006

Because of the abundance of offerings, the question of positioning with regard to live performances is becoming increasingly crucial for managers in the cultural sector. The authors address this issue by proposing original means of differentiation that managers can use in order to reinforce the identity of their offerings. The authors point to the need for analysis of the relationship between the public and the spectacle (central focus of positioning), highlighting the various facets that structure this positioning. They then examine the interaction between the public and the cultural venue (peripheral focus of positioning). Such a framework of consumption experiences offers promising solut…

Chiral symmetry and pi-pi scattering in the Covariant Spectator Theory

2014

The pi-pi scattering amplitude calculated with a model for the quark-antiquark interaction in the framework of the Covariant Spectator Theory (CST) is shown to satisfy the Adler zero constraint imposed by chiral symmetry. The CST formalism is established in Minkowski space and our calculations are performed in momentum space. We prove that the axial-vector Ward-Takahashi identity is satisfied by our model. Then we show that, similar to what happens within the Bethe-Salpeter formalism, application of the axial-vector Ward-Takahashi identity to the CST pi-pi scattering amplitude allows us to sum the intermediate quark-quark interactions to all orders. The Adler self-consistency zero for pi-pi…

Mehr als Musik: Die sieben Dimensionen des Eurovision Song Contests

2008

"Der Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) ist der weltweit größte internationale Wettbewerb für populäre Musik und das erfolgreichste Fernsehunterhaltungsprogramm in Europa. Obwohl der ESC ursprünglich das Ziel verfolgte, die Entstehung neuer Lieder zu fördern, handelte es sich doch stets um ein von den Fernsehanstalten inszeniertes Medienereignis, das erst nachrangig musikökonomischen Zwecken dient. Für das Publikum ist der ESC auf Grund seiner Periodizität, seiner spezifischen Programmstruktur und nicht zuletzt des Zugehörigkeitsgefühls der Zuschauer, das auf Schemata nationaler und kultureller Identifikation beruht, zu einem hochgradig ritualisierten Medienereignis geworden. Seine Bedeutung geh…

"Ritorno al futuro": cinema e tempo libero nella riflessione sociologica, inseguendo il piacere della visione

2012

Karnawalizacja przestrzeni miejskiej

2017

Carnival stands not only for the festive time set by the religious calendar, but also for all games and shows which are part of the urban pop culture. Theoretical reflection on carnivalisation, i.e. a specific model of participation in culture, was initiated by Mikhail Bakhtin. The process of progressive carnivalisation of the urban space is associated with the development of spectator folklorism on the one hand and desementisation of the folk rituals on the other, i.e. with the expansion of festive events, which create common festive activity. The author brings up examples of carnivalisation of the public space in Polish towns from the Middle Ages until the contemporary times when the said…