The Social Mediatization of Lifestyle Sport: Continuity and Novelty in the Online Skate Subculture

Based on mediatization theory, this article tracks how skateboarders experience and negotiate the entry of social media into their subculture. Building on existing scholarship, I show how social media and digital devices retain existing values within the culture while simultaneously introducing new...

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Main Author: L. Dugan Nichols
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2022-06-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221107632