Search results for "stadium"

Youth perceptions of violence against women through a sexist chant in the football stadium: an exploratory analysis

2017

Gender-based violence and violence against women (VAW) refers to any violation of fundamental rights. However, some forms of VAW are viewed as unproblematic, acceptable and deserved. Taking into account that sexist chants in football stadiums reinforce VAW, the purpose of the study is to determine how a group of adolescents can normalize or challenge an example of sexist chants. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted and the participants were asked to discuss to what extent the actions could be considered as gender-based violence. Most of the youth were highly unconscious of the sexist nature of the video and only a few recognized it as gender-based violence. Such awareness i…

Global and local interactions in football : the changing field of professional football stadiums in Finland and Hungary in the 2000s

2018

This article aims to increase understanding of the global-local contexts in football by exploring the changing field of professional football stadiums in Finland and Hungary in the 2000s. More specifically, the cases of two clubs, HJK (Finland) and Ferencvárosi TC (Hungary) are studied. We employ concepts of sport and globalization. The research data consist of semi-structured expert interviews with Finnish and Hungarian football practitioners, media and club documents, and data from observation. The results suggest that interactions of global and local forces are reflected in the development and operation of stadiums. On the one hand, international and national governing bodies have streng…

RF-based node system for blind navigation in running activities

2008

The system presented is oriented for use by blind adults or children in running activities at a stadium or an analogical large space. The system dynamically provides a blind person with navigation related information. Radio signal strength measurements are used in localization task. The system makes a blind person more independent in sport, eliminating the need in explicit human assistance.

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.

The impact of corruption on sport demand

2020

PurposeThe article presents an empirical analysis that evaluates the effects of a systemic corruption scandal on the demand in the short and the long run. In 2006, the Calciopoli scandal uncovered the match rigging in the Italian soccer first division. The exemplary sportive sanction of relegating the primary culprit to the second division imposed further negative externalities on the other clubs. Should we prefer the sportive sanction on the team or the monetary fines for the club?Design/methodology/approachWe estimated two log-linear models of the demand side (stadium attendance) using a fixed effect estimator, on two panel data set made of all the Italian soccer clubs in the first and se…

Does the crowd matter in refereeing decisions? Evidence from Spanish soccer

2016

This paper analyses referee home bias with data from the First Division of the Spanish Football League between the 2002/03 and 2009/10 seasons. The aim is to assess the behaviour of the referee in relation to two decisions, namely free kicks awarded and players booked. The main contribution of this paper is the way in which it analyses referee bias; free kicks and bookings are not considered independent elements, instead it is presumed that the number of free kicks awarded has an impact on the cards shown. Regarding methodology, two random effects panel-data regression models are estimated. The results obtained do not confirm, at least in the period under analysis, that Spanish soccer refer…

Hungary:Filling the Gaps in the Strategic State Sector

2017

The aim of this article is to introduce the evolution of the private sport sector in Hungary. First, taking a historical viewpoint into account, the emergence of the private sport sector will be sketched from the 1800s to date. It is reasonable to say that with some exceptional periods such as the state socialist era, the private sport sector in Hungary has always been present, but its scope and forms of function have been adapted to the current social, political, and economic environments. Second, statistical data will be presented to show the structure and volume of the private sport sector using data from 2013. Third, the ‘development path’ of sport acts, which reflects the professionali…

Global and local interactions in football: Comparing the development paths of Finland and Hungary

2018

The aim of this study is to increase understanding of football’s global and local contexts. More specifically, the development paths of Finnish and Hungarian football are explored and compared in four research articles from different perspectives within a global framework. These viewpoints, in addition to a historical-sociological overview in the article I, cover closely interrelated phenomena observable in the landscape of top-level football: the organization of elite youth football, the professionalization of players and the development of football stadiums. The main research question of the study is as follows: In what way have glocal interactions in men’s football shaped the development…

Real-space quantum transport in two-dimensional nanostructures in magnetic fields

2013

Musik i svenskundervisning på högstadiet

2012

Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena oli selvittää, käyttävätkö yläkoulun ruotsinopettajat musiikkia opetuksessaan ja millaisia kokemuksia heillä on musiikin liittämisestä ruotsinopetukseen. Tarkoituksena oli myös kartoittaa, millä tavoin ja kuinka usein he käyttävät musiikkia opetuksessa sekä millaisia hyviä ja huonoja puolia he näkevät sen käytössä olevan. Tutkimuksen hypoteesi oli, että musiikin rooli ruotsinopetuksessa ei ole erityisen suuri. Tutkimuksen aineisto koostui 46 sähköisestä kyselylomakkeesta, jotka kerättiin ruotsinopettajilta Suomen ruotsinopettajat ry:n sähköpostilistan kautta. Kysely sisälsi sekä väittämiä että avoimia kysymyksiä, joten vastaukset analysoitiin osittain kvantita…