Garry Crawford

Sports fan culture is an area where Garry Crawford continues to work and publish, such as his edited collection with Stefan Lawrence on Digital Football Cultures (2019).

Another area where Garry Crawford has made significant and important contributions to is the study video game culture. Significantly, his early work here focused most notably on sports video games, but beyond this his work expanded to explore the sociology of video games in his book Video Gamers (2012), and then (with Daniel Muriel) the growing social and cultural significance of video game culture in their book Video Games as Culture (2018). Video Games as Culture not only considers contemporary video game culture, but also explores how video games provide important insights into the modern nature of digital and participatory culture, patterns of consumption and identity formation, later modernity and contemporary political rationalities.

His first book Consuming Sport (2004) was the first book to offer a detailed consideration of how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks, and consumer patterns of its followers which Martin Johnes in the International Journal of the History of Sport described as "a very important contribution to the field of sports studies".