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Sports and the Internet

By: Brad Schultz
In: The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet
Edited by: Barney Warf
Subject:Computer-Mediated Communication

Just as newspapers, radio, and television fundamentally changed the nature of sports and how they are consumed, so too has the Internet, and perhaps even more drastically. As with any facet of the media industry, the intersection of sports and the Internet can best be understood through the lenses of technology, economics, and culture.

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As the Internet began to emerge as a public platform in 1994, bandwidth and speed were extremely limited, meaning that the service was more suited to reference, storage, and databases. The early online audience was primarily male, the group that also heavily dominates sports consumption. The combination turned the Internet into a repository of sports news, lists, and discussion groups, and vendors advertising sports items for sale.

While the early days of the ...

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  Schultz, B. (2018). Sports and the internet. In B. Warf (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of the internet (pp. 823-825). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781473960367.n237
  
  Schultz, Brad. "Sports and the Internet." In The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet, edited by Warf, Barney, 823-25. Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473960367.n237.
  
  Schultz, B. 2018. Sports and the Internet. In: Barney Warf Editor, 2018. The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet, Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 823-825 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781473960367.n237> [Accessed 8 Mar 2021].
  
  Schultz, Brad. "Sports and the Internet." The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet. Edited by Barney Warf. Thousand Oaks,: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2018, pp. 823-25. SAGE Knowledge. 8 Mar 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781473960367.n237.
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