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The Future of Disc Golf
In this chapter, I review the book’s key ideas and use them to theorize the future of the sport. In the next two decades, disc golf will likely...
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Social Media and the Growth of Disc Golf
While experiences in online communities produced both integrative and disruptive social forces, as shown in the previous chapter and other studies,...
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Group Integration and Disruption in Disc Golf Social Media
The evolution of disc golf culture depends greatly on what happens inside local clubs. With the rise of social media in the 2010s, much of this life...
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The Framing of Disc Golf in News Media
Ultimately, the future of a sport depends on people’s perceptions of it. Even a sport movement with promising internal characteristics—a cohesive...
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Neglect, Trivialization, and Stigmatization: Disc Golf in Popular Movies and Television
Although the disc golf movement has generally benefited from coverage in traditional news media, as well as insider media, prosumers, and social...
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Chapter 2: Of Tennis Dresses, Golf Sweaters and Bicycling Shorts; College Women and the Making of the American Sportswear Industry, 1890–1960
This paper presents in tandem a history of bicycling shorts and golf sweaters, and the cultural contexts that took these garments from gym garb to...
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„Du, es regnet nicht mehr.“ Kommunikative Aushandlung von Identität
Es ist schon einige Jahrzehnte her, dass ich mit einem befreundeten Pärchen im Auto nach Kassel fuhr. Das Auto war ein (fast) neuer Golf GTI und war...
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Growth without Commercialization: Regional Patterns in Participation Rates and Media Coverage
The previous chapter dovetails into this chapter, where I examine the relationship between the framing of disc golf in the news media and its...
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Change the Game: Sport and Leisure Responses to COVID-19
At a global scale COVID-19 has impacted virtually every single one of us. For many people one of the most significant impacts has been the changes to...
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Chapter 12: “I’m Too Sexy for My Shirt”; The LPGA Dress Code
Women competing on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour recently began wearing clothing that diverted from historic norms. Some LPGA...
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Chapter 1: “Exercise Requires the Greatest Freedom”; Athletic Clothing for American Women, 1880–1920
As women took up athletics between 1880 and 1920, popular periodicals provided guidance to them on how to dress for activities such as bicycling,...
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A Lifestyle
Many disc golfers gravitate toward the lifestyle domain, where commitment to the sport is high, but players tend to be less focused on winning or...
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Die Generationen der Seefahrer: Babyboomer, „Generation Golf“, Millennials und Digital Natives in einem Team
Nachdem Sie Ihre Crew, Schiffslotsen sowie blinden Passagiere in Einklang gebracht und die Piraten eliminiert haben, schauen Sie auf Good Practices...
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Introduction
In the introduction, I explain why disc golf merits attention from scholars, parks departments, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. Next, I disclose and...
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Sustainable Travel and Leisure
People around the world have more leisure time and thus there is a growing impact on our planet from travel and leisure activities. In the last...
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Spatial Visualization: Community-Level Effects of Sport Industry on Community Resilience
The heightened occurrence and escalation of both natural and human-induced hazards, such as hurricanes, floods, and industrial accidents, have had...
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Trickle-out Urbanism: Are Johannesburg’s Gated Estates Good for Their Poor Neighbours?
In 2015, the billionaire Douw Steyn launched a mixed-use megaproject 27 km north of downtown Johannesburg. Plans for Steyn City include 10,000...
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Movement Commercialization and Disc Golf’s Closed Economy
A sport movement with strong leadership, an attractive social identity, and a cohesive culture is more likely to take root and grow than a movement...
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Hainan (Island) Province
Once linked by land to mainland China in its geological past, Hainan Province was long ago inhabited by the local Li people. With signs of...