Research blog 12

The website that I chose is yahoo fantasy football. This is an example of a subculture, because it's not in the social norms of people to sit on their computer for hours on end to look up stats about football players, or fantasize about what stats players might bring. This fantasy world is exactly what the word fantasy means. It's FAKE, anything that isn't real, and people religiously act in or on is a subculture. Fantasy football also has the space on the internet needed for it to be considered a subculture. Where members can pick up, drop, trade, cut, change positions, and bench players. They can also talk to other "owners" of teams in their league. Authenticity plays a crucial role in this subculture, it's role is that it's completley rid of authenticity. Everything in this subculture is fake the team names, the owners names, what teams the players play for, and many other things. My argument for fantasy football as a subculture is simple, it's not in the social norm and it has it's own "space" to meet or talk and still be in existance therefore it is a subculture.