You Had to Be There: Extending Intergroup Contact Theory to Positive Contexts through a Participant-Centered Analysis of Fans’ Experiences at the Olympics

You Had to Be There: Extending Intergroup Contact Theory to Positive Contexts through a Participant-Centered Analysis of Fans’ Experiences at the Olympics

abstract: This dissertation investigated positive intergroup contact and communication in the experiences of fans at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Guided by concepts from Intergroup Contact Theory (ICT), formerly Allport’s (1954) Contact Hypothesis, I asked fans to identify and...

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Other Authors: Brenneman, Luke (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2017
Subjects:
Communication
Social psychology
Sports management
Intercultural communication
Intergroup Contact Theory
Intergroup relations
Interpretive Structural Modeling
Olympics
Sports fans
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44200

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http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44200

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