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Characteristics of a British ice hockey audience: major findings of the 1998 and 1999 Manchester Storm Ice Hockey Club supporter surveys (2001)
Journal Article
Crawford, G. (2001). Characteristics of a British ice hockey audience: major findings of the 1998 and 1999 Manchester Storm Ice Hockey Club supporter surveys. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 36(1), 71-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/101269001036001007

This paper presents a consideration of the major findings from over one and a half thousand respondents to two large-scale questionnaire based surveys of supporters of the British ice hockey club Manchester Storm conducted in 1998 and 1999. It is th... Read More about Characteristics of a British ice hockey audience: major findings of the 1998 and 1999 Manchester Storm Ice Hockey Club supporter surveys.

Freak scene? Narrative, audience & scene
Presentation / Conference
Crawford, G., & Gosling, V. Freak scene? Narrative, audience & scene. Presented at The [Player] Conference, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

This paper develops, and expands upon, ideas first set out in both Crawford (2006) and Crawford and Rutter (2007), which posits the
idea of considering gamers as a (media) audience — enabling parallels to be drawn with wider literatures and debates... Read More about Freak scene? Narrative, audience & scene.

British football on television
Other
Crawford, G., & Williams, J. British football on television. Leicester

Whannel and Williams (1993:2) have suggested that in recent years television has increasingly drawn other cultural and leisure pursuits, including football, into its domain. Moreover, it is evident that throughout this century in Western - if arguabl... Read More about British football on television.

Passagen des Spiels II
Book

At the turn of the century it became apparent that games cannot be seen as marginal to a work and information society, but have taken a central position in society. Economy, sport, music, and architecture are all said to be influenced by play and our... Read More about Passagen des Spiels II.