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Communication and Sport
Surveying the Field
Fourth Edition
- Andrew C. Billings - University of Alabama, USA
- Michael L. Butterworth - University of Texas at Austin, USA
March 2021 | 368 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Communication and Sport: Surveying the Field provides students with an understanding of sports media, rhetoric, culture, and organizations through an examination of a wide range of topics. Authors Andrew C. Billings and Michael L. Butterworth address everything from youth to amateur to professional sports through varied lenses, including mythology, community, and identity. A comprehensive focus on communication scholarship gives attention to the ways that sports produce, maintain, or resist cultural attitudes about race, gender, sexuality, class, and politics. The Fourth Edition includes new interviews with prominent figures in the field and new discussions on current events like the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1. Introduction to Communication and Sport
Chapter 2. Community in Sport
Chapter 3. Sport Media: Navigating the Landscape
Chapter 4. Sport Fan Cultures
Chapter 5. Sport and Mythology
Chapter 6. Gender in Sport
Chapter 7. Race and Ethnicity in Sport
Chapter 8. Politics and Nationalism in Sport
Chapter 9. Performing Identity in Sport
Chapter 10. Interpersonal Communication in Sport
Chapter 11. Small Groups/Teams in Sport
Chapter 12. Crisis Communication in Sport Organizations
Chapter 13. The Commodification of Sport
Chapter 14. Sport Gaming
Index
Contemporary and extensive subject matter relevant to today's student experiences. Although, I would like to see at least a few instructor aids provided to supplement teaching to undergraduates.
Journalism and Mass Communication, San Jose State University
March 23, 2022
Still considering because our department is doing a curriculum rewrite and we're not sure of the composition of what we want of our sports reporting program
Communication, Lamar University
March 30, 2021