Author
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- André Luiz Maranhão de Souza-Leão
- Bruno Melo Moura
- Fernando Sacic Carneiro-Leão
Abstract
Purpose - Sports leagues have stood out in the entertainment industry due to their great economic value and cultural impact. This is the case of the American sports leagues, with emphasis on the National Basketball Association (NBA), whose largest Latin American market lies on Brazil. The aforementioned league’s audience is constantly growing, a fact that can be partially explained by the encouragement provided for its viewers to interact through social media, in a phenomenon called social TV. Accordingly, the aim of the present study is to investigate how social TV works as a means for Brazilian fans to coproduce their NBA broadcasting enjoyment through social media interactions. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conducted a netnography on the community of fans engaged in Twitter hashtag #NBAnaESPN, which was released by ESPN to promote audience integration during NBA games' broadcasting. Findings - A theorization about the role played by social TV in the way fan culture articulates through social media to enjoy broadcasting media products was herein presented. The findings of this study have evidenced three categories concerning the role played by television broadcasting, social media and the fandom in NBA consumption by Brazilian fans. Based on these findings, the authors got to the conclusion that social TV establishes a mediatized environment where fan culture can be articulated through social media to enable interactions about television broadcasting. Research limitations/implications - The study was limited to members of the Brazilian NBA audience who engage in the official social media of the league’s broadcasting. Originality/value - The study heads toward a theoretical generalization based on the research results.
Suggested Citation
André Luiz Maranhão de Souza-Leão & Bruno Melo Moura & Fernando Sacic Carneiro-Leão, 2022.
"Bouncing between screens: social TV and Brazilian NBA audience,"
Revista de Gestão, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 31(3), pages 275-290, November.
Handle:
RePEc:eme:regepp:rege-12-2021-0206
DOI: 10.1108/REGE-12-2021-0206
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