Full Description
This volume of essays examines the ways in which sports have become a means for the communication of social identity in the United States. The essays included here explore the question, How is identity engaged in the performance and spectatorship of sports? Defining sports as the whole range of mediated professional sports, and considering actual participation in sports, the chapters herein address a varied range of ways in which sports as a cultural entity becomes a site for the creation and management of symbolic components of identity.
Originating in the New Agendas in Communication symposium sponsored by the University of Texas College of Communication, this volume provides contemporary explorations of sports and identity, highlighting the perspectives of up-and-coming scholars and researchers. It has much to offer readers in communication, sociology of sport, human kinetics, and related areas.
Contents
Sport and Race:
Chapter 1 Brawn, Brains, and the Dearth of Black NFL Quarterbacks
Chapter 2 Cullen Jones is my Friend!: Increasing Diversity in Swimming Through Parasocial Relationships on Facebook
Chapter 3 LeBron James as Cybercolonized Spectacle: A Critical Race Reading of Whiteness in Sport
Chapter 4 Jackie Robinson, Civic Republicanism, and Black Political Culture
Chapter 5 "Grit and Graciousness": Sport, Rhetoric, and Race in Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign
Sport and Gender:
Chapter 6 Female Ballplayers as Feminine Tomboys and Citizens: A Progressive Concordance in American Culture
Chapter 7 Constructing Replay, Consuming Bodies: Sport Media and the Neoliberal Citizen
Chapter 8 ". . . dreams include pregnant bellies or being passed around the frat house": Investigating Heteronormativity in Sport
Sport and Image Management:
Chapter 9 Managing Ideologies and Identities: Reporting the Penn State Scandal
Chapter 10 Just Warming Up: Logan Morrison, Twitter, Athlete Identity, and Building the Brand
Chapter 11 "Where My Falcons At?": The Stroh Center Rap and Representation of Organizational Identities in College Sports
Sport Mediation and Simulation:
Chapter 12 Biopolitics, Algorithms, Identity: Electronic Arts and the Sports Gamer
Chapter 13 Family (Sports) Television: Exploring Cultural Power, Domestic Leisure, and Fandom in the Modern Context
Chapter 14 Put Me In Boss: Ideological Fantasies in Cultural Discourse of Fantasy Football
