TY - JOUR
T1 - Agency on Trial in Daily Fantasy Sport
AU - McLeod, Christopher M.
AU - Holden, John T.
AU - Newman, Joshua I.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2020/4/1
Y1 - 2020/4/1
N2 - The New York Attorney General filed a lawsuit against DraftKings and FanDuel in 2015 accusing them of operating illegal gambling platforms. Using actor–network theory, we show how DraftKings, FanDuel, the New York Attorney General, critics, and legislators were preoccupied with how much agency players possessed. They also understood agency as emerging from a sociomaterial arrangement of human and nonhuman entities and saw how agency could be enhanced or limited by introducing new rules, technologies, and constraints. We compare this perspective on agency with theories typically used in sociology of sport and we consider how sociologists can intervene in sport agency.
AB - The New York Attorney General filed a lawsuit against DraftKings and FanDuel in 2015 accusing them of operating illegal gambling platforms. Using actor–network theory, we show how DraftKings, FanDuel, the New York Attorney General, critics, and legislators were preoccupied with how much agency players possessed. They also understood agency as emerging from a sociomaterial arrangement of human and nonhuman entities and saw how agency could be enhanced or limited by introducing new rules, technologies, and constraints. We compare this perspective on agency with theories typically used in sociology of sport and we consider how sociologists can intervene in sport agency.
KW - Michel Callon
KW - actor–network theory
KW - gambling
KW - law
KW - structure
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075331119&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0193723519889342
DO - 10.1177/0193723519889342
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075331119
SN - 0193-7235
VL - 44
SP - 134
EP - 153
JO - Journal of Sport and Social Issues
JF - Journal of Sport and Social Issues
IS - 2
ER -