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There has always been a close connection between football, fan cultures and media. In contemporary media culture, this connection has expanded to a wide range of media — digital, in particular — and to a wider range of users, children included. Through their networked media practices, children form and perform their identities, related to specific communities of practice or fan cultures as social practices of interpretive reproduction (Reckwitz, 2002; Frykman and Gilje, 2003; Corsaro, 2005). Media form the basis of our interactions, and mediatisation must be seen as a prerequisite for children’s play today (Hepp, 2012; Hjarvard, 2013). Children’s fan cultures cover a wide range of topics; yet football is a field with specific explanatory power due to its structural and cultural specificities.
Frederik (11): ‘…it’s like there is football in everything. It’s kind of a core, where everything begins, almost. It’s like… How can I explain it…? (…) It’s the starting point. Also, there is something that keeps you going. For example, if you only sat there, looking at each other, and like … “How are you doing?” “Yeah, the weather is nice” … But then, in FIFA, you can sit and play and “wow, goal!” instead of just “ooh, ooh”. You can keep yourselves going more, so to speak.’
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Johansen, S.L. (2016). Being a Football Kid. Football as a Mediatised Play Practice. In: Schwell, A., Szogs, N., Kowalska, M.Z., Buchowski, M. (eds) New Ethnographies of Football in Europe. Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137516985_9
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