scholarly journals Fantasy baseball: A new way to gamble or just another game?

2011 ◽  
pp. 126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Weiss ◽  
Robert M. Demski ◽  
George J. Backen

The controversy over whether fantasy sports should be considered a new form of gambling was investigated. The predominance rule was used to operationally define gambling. This rule states that an activity is gambling if outcomes are due more to chance than to skill. Individuals active in a fantasy baseball league (commonly referred to as "owners") and individuals who had never entered any type of fantasy league ("non-owners") participated. Perceptions of skill-to-chance ratios were assessed and a content analysis of the specific skill and chance features involved in fantasy baseball was conducted. The results showed that fantasy baseball owners and non-owners judged outcomes to be more the result of skill. In an attempt to determine whether these results were supported by actual outcomes, a second study analyzed the records of a fantasy baseball league over an extended period. The findings of this additional study also suggest that skill may predominant over chance.

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110369
Author(s):  
Maddalena Cannito ◽  
Eugenia Mercuri

In the last few years, the informal network – called manosphere – of forums, websites and blogs, where commentators are mainly men and focus on issues relating to masculinity, has been gaining members and visibility. The article’s objective is to explore the politics of fatherhood and masculinity that an Italian non-resident fathers’ online forum engages in to assess whether the claims for fathers’ rights are a move towards a new form of involved fatherhood or if they are only useful to rebuild a solid traditional male identity. By conducting an explorative content analysis on their Facebook group and page, we found that fatherhood is an ‘empty box’ and that fathers’ rights are used in a strategic way to justify hegemonic masculinity, gender-based violence, as well as antifeminist and antifeminine ideas, and to promote political advocacy cooperating with right-wing parties. The article also reflects on the connections between hegemony and power using the concept of hybrid masculinities.


SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824401987787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Süleyman Ahmet Menteş

The Internet has changed the ways and conditions of activism. Especially over the last three decades, online activism has been prevalently used for sharing information, connecting people, and mobilizing crowds to express their discontent. The Internet is often referred to as a new form of public sphere, which demonstrates many distinctive and advantageous features compared with traditional types of public spheres. By following public sphere theory, this study examines online activism in the context of environmental activism and aims to understand the potential of the Internet within online activism practices. The studied website “Save the Floodplain Forest” ( www.longozukoru.org ) is an environmentalist activist platform dedicated to saving the Iğneada floodplain forest. The study employed the five-dimensional content analysis scale developed by Kavada to evaluate and analyze the campaign website. The results exhibit inadequacies and point out the potential rooms for improvement for the campaign website.


2020 ◽  
pp. 239-250
Author(s):  
Я. А. Дударева ◽  
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А. А. Бедарев ◽  

This article is devoted to the consideration of the peculiarities of political tweeting as a new form of communication between the president and citizens. As a result of a comparative content analysis of the tweets of Russian President V. Putin and US President D. Trump, it was revealed that posts in the account of a Russian politician are constructed as a statement of any fact or news related to the President, and perform an informative function. D. Trump’s tweets are constructed as statements of the president’s personal opinion and often perform an imperative evaluative function. D. Trump, through political tweeting, makes an attempt to influence a potential audience.


Author(s):  
Ali Abedzadeh ◽  
Abdolhadi Daneshpour ◽  
Maryam Ostadi

Humanity settlement are formed as a result of decisions and actions of different people and become as a form of an identity of integrity. So urban form is influenced by desires, values, beliefs, and human activities, so the study of urban form is the study of its constituent human values and expression of physical aspects of their lifestyles. Before contemporary periods, urban form in Iran, continuity based on former patterns of changes, which was gradual, but after the beginning of the influence of west, one of the most important challenges of urban form in Iran is in the form of short-term changes. Changes occur in a cycle of destruction and construction. This paper use the way of content analysis investigate to texts, document to study form and typo-morphology of residential environment in the city of Mashhad. In the periods of one hundred years shows there is a direct and significant relationship between changes of Iranian lifestyle and metamorphosis of urban form, so that by sequential developments of Iranian lifestyle in a short time, the urban form is responded and metamorphosed and again is created in a new form.


Author(s):  
Donald P. Roy ◽  
Benjamin D. Goss

The explosion of fantasy sports and the dearth of research about it create a need for investigation in this relatively new form of sport spectatorship. This chapter proposes a conceptual framework for marketers to utilize in their examinations of influences on the consumption of fantasy sports by postmodern sports fans. The framework is based on literature from psychology, sociology, sport management/marketing, general management/marketing, and consumer behavior. It leads to the proposition that fantasy sports consumption is impacted by the interplay of psychological characteristics internal to consumers, social interactions, and external influences controlled by fantasy sports marketers.


2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasios Kaburakis

CBC Distribution and Marketing, Inc. (CBC), operator of CDMsports.com (CDM), offering fantasy-sports products and services, brought this action against Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. (MLBAM), to establish its right to use without license the names and, inherently crucial for fantasy-sports operators, statistical records of Major League Baseball (MLB) players. MLBAM, the interactive media and Internet company of MLB, counterclaimed that CBC’s fantasy-baseball products violated MLB players’ rights of publicity, which were licensed through the MLB Players’ Association (MLBPA) to MLBAM. The MLBPA intervened in the suit, joining in MLBAM’s claims and further asserting a breach-of-contract claim against CBC. The district court granted summary judgment to CBC—see C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P., 443 F. Supp. 2d 1077 (E.D. Mo. 2006)—and MLBAM and the MLBPA appealed.


Author(s):  
Riyan Ramdani ◽  
M. Najib Karim

The purpose of this study was to explore severe persecution as the reason the barrier inherits in a compilation of Islamic law section 173 the letter A. the topic of “Severe Persecution” isan interesting topic both academic and general quarters about it can be highlighted in both the book and the legacy. Nextaya persecution heavy is the new form of inherited law Indonesia included in a compilation of Islamic law under section 173 of the lette A the view of cleric 4 of madzhab category of severe persecution is not through research. Using the yuridis normative and yuridis empiris method in the form of content analysis. After heavy mayhem is categorized as the reason for the obstacle inheriting acquired knowledge and understanding the data is then analyzed comprehensive to find the basis of his KHI’s law makes the persecution tough as an excuse for inheritable rule, the istinbath of KHI chapter 173 of the relationship between section 173 and the opinions of Indonesian scholars. The study found a result in a compilation of Islam law not given a clear, concrete understanding of what constitutes severe persecution. The priest hanafi argued that murder was not entitled to an inheritance by the one whom he killed whether intentionally or imbued, and then in this context the combination of Islamic law used the three methods of ushul fiqh in determining the renewal of the barrier, first, maslahah mursalah, second, sad dzariah, third, qiyas. And interrelated to the scholars’ opinion that a grouping of heiress in KHI chapter 173 is a legal renewal of heiress according to the code “law can change accourding to the circumstances.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi penganiayaan berat sebagai alasan penghalang mewarisi dalam Kompilasi Hukum Islam pasal 173 huruf A. Topik mengenai “penganiayaan berat” merupakan topik menarik dikalangan akademik maupun dikalangan umum. Diskursus mengenai hal tersebut dapat disorot dari aspek hukum maupun kewarisan. Selanjutnya penganiayaan berat merupakan bentuk pembaharuan hukum kewarisan di Indonesia yang termaktub dalam Kompilasi Hukum Islam Pasal 173 huruf A sedangkan dalam pandangan Ulama 4 madzhab kategori penganiayaan berat tidak termasuk dalam pandangan para Ulama. Data penelitian ini diperoleh melalui penelitian yang menggunakan metode yuridis normatif dan yuridis empiris dengan bentuk content analysis. Setelah konsep penganiayaan berat yang dikategorikan sebagai alasan penghalang mewarisi dipelajari dan di fahami, data kemudian dianalisa secara komprehensif untuk menemukan dasar hukum KHI menjadikan penganiayaan berat sebagai alasan penghalang mewarisi, proses istinbath hukum KHI pasal 173 dan Hubungan antara pasal 173 dengan pendapat para Ulama Indonesia. Penelitian ini menemukan sebuah hasil Dalam Kompilasi Hukum Islam tidak diberikan pengertian yang jelas dan konkret tentang apa yang dimaksud dengan penganiayaan berat. Imam Hanafi berpendapat bahwasanya pembunuhan tidak berhak mendapatkan warisan dari seseorag yang ia bunuh baik dibunuh secara sengaja atau tidak sengaja, kemudian Dalam konteks ini Kompilasi Hukum Islam menggunakan tiga metode ushul fiqh dalam menentukan pembaharuan penghalang kewarisan, pertama, maslahah mursalah, kedua, sad dzariah, ketiga, qiyas. Dan Hubungan antar pasal dengan pendapat para ulama bahwasa­nya pengelompokkan penghalang waris dalam KHI pasal 173 adalah pembaharuan hukum waris sesuai dari sebuah kaidah “Hukum bisa berubah sesuai dengan keadaan tempat dan waktu”


2021 ◽  
pp. 166-202
Author(s):  
Jenna Supp-Montgomerie

This chapter explores the promises and failures of communication through an analysis of what was sent on the Atlantic Telegraph Cable of 1858. It is a strange sort of content analysis, however, since most of the communication on the cable consisted of mere signals before the cable was capable of transmitting code, and even much of the code the cable could transmit consisted of a single letter. The V—a Beethovenian dot-dot-dot-dash in Morse code—became the primary way to reestablish connection after failure. These transmissions read more like babble than meaning, more like a stutter than speech. As such, they help to illustrate the constitutive disconnections that make communication possible and, in particular, highlight the telegraph’s inauguration of a new form of language that neither represented things in the world nor referenced a system of meaning: the signal. With particular attention to the work of Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Lacan, and James Carey, this chapter turns to infrastructure as a supplement to structural and poststructural theories of communication and argues that the creative, affective force of religion made these essentially meaningless signals matter. Even before the Atlantic Telegraph Cable could transmit speech, it carried the hefty imaginary of a divinely sanctioned global unity.


2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Dwyer ◽  
Joris Drayer ◽  
Stephen L. Shapiro

Following a mega-advertising blitz in the late summer of 2015, daily fantasy sports (DFSs) entered a maturing fantasy sports market as a new, highly accessible, and potentially lucrative alternative to traditional, season-long fantasy sports. The two activities share a name but represent substantially different business models. In the view of some policy makers and state legislatures, DFS appeared to resemble a new form of sports wagering and as a result, several U.S. states banned the activity. The current study examined the consumption behavior differences and gambling-related dispositions of those fantasy participants who play DFS and those who do not. A total of 314 fantasy football participants were surveyed, and the results contribute to what we know about gambling and DFS participation. Although distinct differences were found between the two groups, the overall assessment of the findings suggest DFS participation appears to align more with highly involved traditional, season-long fantasy sports participation than other forms of gambling.


Author(s):  
Juta Žvira

With changes in the media environment, theatre critics are not only responsible for communicating with theatre visitors, but also any individual who decides to publish in the media, whether it is a professional media or a self-created platform – blog. The aim of the research of the article “Theatre blogs in Latvia: content features” is to find out what are the most characteristic features of the content and the most frequently used functions of theatre criticism in the most active theatre blogs in Latvia. Qualitative and quantitative content analysis was used to analyse the content of the five most active theatre blogs in Latvia in the period from 2018 to 2019. The study found that the content of all five blogs correspond to descriptive material about the content of the performance, actors, and scenography and are supplemented by the author’s personal assessment, which is mainly highly emotional. Among the most frequently used functions of theatre criticism in blogs are documentation, evaluation, interpretation, sharing experiences, commenting, and motivating readers to attend the show. It was concluded that the theatre criticism appearance into the contentof blogs provides a new form of reviews, providing both benefits and risks to the criticism. More attention should be paid to the arrangement and development of blog culture in Latvia and the use of the advantages of digital platforms for both professionals and bloggers to improve their material and attract an audience.


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