From marginality to mainstream: reflections on the MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) and contemporary capitalist societies
Our main objective in this paper is to discuss the deep relation between the main charac-teristics of the contemporary capitalist societies and one of the sports/shows that reaches a bigger number of persons not only in the Brazilian media but also in the international one: the MMA, Mixed Martial Ar...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Associação Nacional dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação |
| Repositorio: | E-Compós |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.e-compos.org.br:article/965 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.e-compos.org.br/e-compos/article/view/965 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Esportes Comunicação MMA Globalização |
| Sumario: | Our main objective in this paper is to discuss the deep relation between the main charac-teristics of the contemporary capitalist societies and one of the sports/shows that reaches a bigger number of persons not only in the Brazilian media but also in the international one: the MMA, Mixed Martial Arts. Far beyond the mostly rapidly identifiable aspects – the violence or aggressiveness -, this sport/show is paradigmatic, because it embodies a huge amount of politics, economics and cultural aspects that are highly valorized in the contemporary develop-ment stage of the capitalists societies, characterized mainly by the expansion of the flow of information and goods globally, specially driven by the new communication technologies. |
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