Being a footy fan is not mainly about the glory of a premiership – it is much more about enjoying the gravel-shovelling entailed in each and every season your club goes without success.
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Just as with all the earlier versions of the iPhone, rumours abound about what Apple will announce this week in relation to iPhone 6 – new screens, different sizes, powerful chips, faster processing and…
Transfer deadline day is over for another year. As always, it brought drama galore, with deals thrown together at the last minute, like the “shock” announcement three hours before the deadline that Danny…
Why are we so loyal to our national and club football teams? Whatever the results, we tend to support them week in week out, through thick and thin. They can cause us nothing but misery and heartache and…
At some point, you’ve no doubt heard someone say “football is my religion”. And if we follow French sociologist Emile Durkheim’s famous building blocks for religion, we will find that football is not far…
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Assistant Professor, Department of English, Lakehead University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, James Cook University
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Associate Professor (Korean Society and Culture), Dean International (Korea), Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Murdoch University
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Professor and Research Chair in New Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Federation University Australia
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Principal Lecturer in Journalism, University of Brighton
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Deakin University
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PhD researcher in the fields of Popular Culture and Postcolonialism, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Psychology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
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Interim Director, UWA Public Policy Institute; Associate Professor & Programme Co-ordinator (Masters of Public Policy), The University of Western Australia
