Fanchoreografien als koordinierte Formen kommunikativen Kollektivhandelns

Beobachtungen aus semiotischer Perspektive

Abstract

In this contribution fan choreographies are understood as coordinated mul¬timodal forms of communicative collective action. Fan choreographies in sports stadi¬ums owe their existence to the fact that a large on-site-audience is involved in the coor¬dinated execution of a communicative action. From a semiotic and media-theoretical perspective, this type of communication has to be categorized specifically. And it offers a wealth of conceptual and theoretical challenges that have so far received little atten¬tion in audience research. These include questions of authorship as well as the meaning of physical and social space.