Use of Twitter usage by club fans

Authors

  • Selami Özsoy Abant İzzet Baysal University

Keywords:

Social Networks, communication, Twitter, media, sport.

Abstract

Social networking sites which are Web 2.0 applications have become widespread and there are of usage has increased. The study aims to investigate the purpose of using the social networking site, Twitter by club fans. The sample of the study is composed of fans from Spor Toto (Turkish football pool) Football Super League Clubs Galatasaray and Trabzonspor with registered official Twitter accounts. A 20-item data collection tool was developed in line with the literature and expert views and was published in an internet site for a whole month in August. The views of the 452 fans that filled in the form were analyzed. Results show that the new social networking site Twitter has been mostly followed by males between 18-24 ages that are fans of sports clubs. Fans have stated that they mostly follow Twitter in order to learn about the views of footballers and sports managers. Its interactive features and provision of direct and reliable information by Twitter have been stated as the reasons of high preferences for Twitter compared with the other medias.

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Author Biography

Selami Özsoy, Abant İzzet Baysal University

Selami Özsoy was born in Bolu in 1969. He graduated from Faculty of Communications, İstanbul University in 1991. He received his M.A (2003) and the Ph. D degree (2007) in the field of sports management from Abant İzzet Baysal University, Turkey. Since 2007 he is an Assistant Professor at School of Physical Education and Sports, AİBU. His research interests are sports media, sport communication and sport history.

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Published

2012-09-19

How to Cite

Özsoy, S. (2012). Use of Twitter usage by club fans. Journal of Human Sciences, 9(2), 1132–1152. Retrieved from https://www.j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/2372

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2012)

Section

Applied Communication

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