Communication and Sport

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2021

Communication and Sport

Edited by: Michael L. Butterworth

Volume 28 in the series Handbooks of Communication Science

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110660883

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About this book

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.

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Michael L. Butterworth, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
I Introduction to communication and sport
1 Communication and sport: an emergent field Michael L. Butterworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Playing on the communication and sport field: dispositions, challenges, and priorities Lawrence A. Wenner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
II Communication studies of sport
3 Through the kaleidoscope: all the colors of sports fanship Walter Gantz, Nicky Lewis and Irene I. van Driel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4 Moving beyond the local: media, marketing, and “satellite” sports fans Danielle Sarver Coombs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
5 The organizational processes of athletic coaching Gregory A. Cranmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
6 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
7 From the living room to the ball field: a communicative approach to studying the family through sport Jimmy Sanderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
8 The sports interpreter’s role and interpreting strategies: a case study of Japanese professional baseball interpreters Hatsuko Itaya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
9 The ethos of the activist athlete Abraham I. Khan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
10 Forgivable blackness: Jack Johnson and the politics of presidential clemency Daniel A. Grano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
11 Haram hoops? FIBA, Nike, and the hijab’s half-court defense Courtney M. Cox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
12 “Ideology in practice”: conceptualizing the NCAA’s <student-athlete> as an ideograph Katie Lever Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
13 Connecting local and global aspirations and audiences: communication in, around, and about Football Club Barcelona Jeffrey W. Kassing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
III Sport and media
14 MediaSport: over production and global consumption David Rowe and Toby Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
15 Uber-sport David L. Andrews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
16 Sport, media and the promotion of militarism: theoretical inter-continental reflections of the United Kingdom and South Korea John Kelly and Jung Woo Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
17 Football, gender, and sexism: the ugly side of the world’s beautiful game Lindsey J. Meân and Beth Fielding-Lloyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
18 Communication, sport, disability, and the (able)national Michael Silk, Emma Pullen and Daniel Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
19 NBC’s diversity Olympics: promoting gay athletes in PyeongChang Jennifer McClearen and Brett Siegel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
20 Greening media sport: sport and the communication of environmental issues Brett Hutchins, Libby Lester and Toby Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
21 Legitimizing and institutionalizing eSports in the NBA 2K League Markus Stauff and Travis Vogan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
IV Communicating nationalism(s) in sport
22 The biggest double-edged sword in sport media: Olympic media and the rendering of identity Andrew C. Billings and Elisabetta Zengaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
23 “For the good of the world”: the innovations and influences of the UK’s early international televizing of sport Richard Haynes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
24 Sports and the media in Germany: lessons in nationhood and multiculturalism Karsten Senkbeil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
25 Sport celebrity and multiculturalism in South Korea during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Younghan Cho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
26 Communication and sport in Japan Lee Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
27 Communicating Igbo sports nationalism under military dictatorship and democracy Chuka Onwumechili Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
28 Sport communication and the politics of identity in the MENA region Mahfoud Amara and Kamal Hamidou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	515
29 “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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527
30 Colombian football: a national popular of pleasure, violence, and labor Toby Miller and Alfredo Sabbagh Fajardo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543
31 Football, television, and the state in Argentina: a tale of monopolies, patrimonies, and populisms Pablo Alabarces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	561
V Communicating in applied sport contexts
32 Crisis communication and sport: the organization, the players, and the fans Natalie Brown-Devlin and Sabitha Sudarshan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	579
33 Communicating fantasy sport Brody J. Ruihley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	597
34 The contemporary use of social media in professional sport Norm O’Reilly and Gashaw Z. Abeza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	615
35 Social media and sport marketing Ann Pegoraro and Katie Lebel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	633
36 Sport media, sport journalism, and the digital era Galen Clavio and Brian Moritz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	651
37 The male and female sports journalists divide on the Twittersphere Haim Hagay and Alina Bernstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	669
38 #Rio2016 and #WorldCup2018: social media meets journalism Thomas Horky and Robin Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	693
39 Ghosted gods: commodifying celebrities, decrying wraiths, and contesting graven images Amber Roessner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	709
Contributors to this volume Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	729
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	737

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 751
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Tables: 11
Keywords: Communication and Sport; Sports Communication; Sports Media; Sports Culture

eBook

Published: July 19, 2021
ISBN: 9783110660883

Hardcover

Published: July 19, 2021
ISBN: 9783110657074

Paperback

Published: May 8, 2023
ISBN: 9783111257839