{"id":2139,"date":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/has-the-authenticity-of-football-been-diluted-due-to-the-commodification-of-the-game-in-our-contemporary-culture\/"},"modified":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"has-the-authenticity-of-football-been-diluted-due-to-the-commodification-of-the-game-in-our-contemporary-culture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2015\/01\/12\/has-the-authenticity-of-football-been-diluted-due-to-the-commodification-of-the-game-in-our-contemporary-culture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the authenticity of Football been diluted due to the commodification of the game in our contemporary culture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fundamental claims:<br \/>\nThe authenticity of Football has been diluted due to the commodification of the game in our contemporary culture. \u2022 The commodification of the game is a result of all imposing factors that serve to weaken the integrity of the game. \u2022 I have argued these imposing factors are: the effects of Mass Media, Fetishism of the game, and the reproducibility of the game.<br \/>\nPhilosophers used to support my claims:<br \/>\n1. Marx 2. Adorno  3. Debord, Benjamin<br \/>\nThrough exposing the make-up of our contemporary culture it is made possible to see how the game Football was never going to exist in the same nature as it did when it first originated. Our society has served to alter the existence of the game and how it functions. By integrating<br \/>\nAdorno and his theory of \u2018Mass Media\u2019 we will be able to see both the detrimental and beneficial effects that media has had on the game. I will also look at Debord\u2019s \u2018Society of the Spectacle\u2019, which will allow us to refute whether or not the game is merely a representation of itself. I believe Marx\u2019s theory of \u2018Commodity Fetishism\u2019 and Benjamin\u2019s theory on the \u2018Reproducibility of the Work of Art in the Mechanical Age\u2019 will make apparent the form of attachment a fan has to their club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Pearson, 2015, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,22,123],"tags":[183,238,239],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-233","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-authenticity","tag-commodification","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}