Communication and sport / edited by Michael Butterworth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butterworth, Michael L., editor.

Series:

Handbooks of communication science ; 28.

Handbooks of communication science [HoCS] ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and sports.

Sports in popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 751 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Sport is a universal feature of global popular culture. It shapes our identities, affects our relationships, and defines our communities. It also influences our consumption habits, represents our cultures, and dramatizes our politics. In other words, sport is among the most prominent vehicles for communication available in daily life. Nevertheless, only recently has it begun to receive robust attention in the discipline of communication studies. The Handbook of Communication and Sport attends to the recent and rapid growth of scholarship in communication and media studies that features sport as a central site of inquiry. The book attempts to capture a full range of methods, theories, and topics that have come to define the subfield of "communication and sport" or "sports communication." It does so by emphasizing four primary features. First, it foregrounds "communication" as central to the study of sport. This emphasis helps to distinguish the book from collections in related disciplines such as sociology, and also points readers beyond media as the primary or only context for understanding the relationship between communication and sport. Thus, in addition to studies of media effects, mediatization, media framing, and more, readers will also engage with studies in interpersonal, intercultural, organizational, and rhetorical communication. Second, the handbook presents an array of methods, theories, and topics in the effort to chart a comprehensive landscape of communication and sport scholarship. Thus, readers will benefit from empirical, interpretive, and critical work, and they will also see studies drawing on varied texts and sites of inquiry. Third, the Handbook of Communication and Sport includes a broad range of scholars from around the world. It is therefore neither European nor North American in its primary focus. In addition, the book includes contributors from commonly under-represented regions in Asia, Africa, and South America. Fourth, the handbook aims to account for both historical trajectories and contemporary areas of interest. In this way, it covers the central topics, debates, and perspectives from the past and also suggests continued and emerging pathways for the future. Collectively, the Handbook of Communication and Sport aspires to provide scholars and students in communication and media studies with the most comprehensive assessment of the field available.

Contents:

Walter Gantz, Nicky Lewis and Irene I. van Driel

Moving beyond the local: media, marketing, and "satellite" sports fans / Danielle Sarver Coombs

The organizational processes of athletic coaching / Gregory A. Cranmer

Are children getting outplayed? Examining the intersection of children's involvement in physical activity, youth sports, and barriers to participation / Kim Bissell and Tyana Ellis

From the living room to the ball field: a communicative approach to studying the family through sport / Jimmy Sanderson

The sports interpreter's role and interpreting strategies: a case study of Japanese professional baseball interpreters / Hatsuko Itaya

The ethos of the activist athlete / Abraham I. Khan

Forgivable blackness: Jack Johnson and the politics of presidential clemency / Daniel A. Grano

Haram hoops? FIBA, Nike, and the hijab's half-court defense / Courtney M. Cox

"Ideology in practice": conceptualizing the NCAA's as an ideograph / Katie Lever

Connecting local and global aspirations and audiences: communication in, around, and about Football Club Barcelona / Jeffrey W. Kassing

III. Sport and media

MediaSport: over production and global consumption / David Rowe and Toby Miller

Uber-sport / David L. Andrews

Sport, media and the promotion of militarism: theoretical inter-continental reflections of the United Kingdom and South Korea / John Kelly and Jung Woo Lee

Football, gender, and sexism: the ugly side of the world's beautiful game / Lindsey J. Meân and Beth Fielding-Lloyd

Communication, sport, disability, and the (able)national / Michael Silk, Emma Pullen and Daniel Jackson

NBC's diversity Olympics: promoting gay athletes in PyeongChang / Jennifer McClearen and Brett Siegel

Greening media sport: sport and the communication of environmental issues / Brett Hutchins, Libby Lester and Toby Miller

Legitimizing and institutionalizing eSports in the NBA 2K League / Markus Stauff and Travis Vogan

IV. Communicating nationalism(s) in sport

The biggest double-edged sword in sport media: Olympic media and the rendering of identity / Andrew C. Billings and Elisabetta Zengaro

"For the good of the world": the innovations and influences of the UK's early international televizing of sport / Richard Haynes

Sports and the media in Germany: lessons in nationhood and multiculturalism / Karsten Senkbeil

Sport celebrity and multiculturalism in South Korea during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games / Younghan Cho

Communication and sport in Japan / Lee Thompson

Communicating Igbo sports nationalism under military dictatorship and democracy / Chuka Onwumechili

Sport communication and the politics of identity in the MENA region / Mahfoud Amara and Kamal Hamidou

"Even when the angel of death will come I will still wear yellow-blue": Israeli soccer fans' chants as a window for understanding cultural and sports reality / Ilan Tamir

Colombian football: a national popular of pleasure, violence, and labor / Toby Miller and Alfredo Sabbagh Fajardo

Football, television, and the state in Argentina: a tale of monopolies, patrimonies, and populisms / Pablo Alabarces

V. Communicating in applied sport contexts

Crisis communication and sport: the organization, the players, and the fans / Natalie Brown-Devlin and Sabitha Sudarshan

Communicating fantasy sport / Brody J. Ruihley

The contemporary use of social media in professional sport / Norm O'Reilly and Gashaw Z. Abeza

Social media and sport marketing / Ann Pegoraro and Katie Lebel

Sport media, sport journalism, and the digital era / Galen Clavio and Brian Moritz

The male and female sports journalists divide on the Twittersphere / Haim Hagay and Alina Bernstein

#Rio2016 and #WorldCup2018: social media meets journalism / Thomas Horky and Robin Meyer

Ghosted gods: commodifying celebrities, decrying wraiths, and contesting graven images / Amber Roessner.

Notes:

Issued also in print.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110657159

3110657155

9783110660883

3110660881

OCLC:

1262308143