Description
Communication and Sport: Surveying the Field examines a wide array of topics necessary for students to understand sports media, rhetoric, culture, and organizations from micro to macro-level issues. Everything from youth to amateur to professional sports is addressed through varied useful lens such as mythology, community, and identity.
Communication and Sport introduces readers to the traditions and vocabulary found in communication scholarship as it then explains what distinguishes communication from related disciplinary approaches, such as sociology, anthropology, history, and cultural studies. Subsequent chapters explore such issues as: fan cultures; racial identity and gender in sports media; politics and nationality in sports; parent/child relationships and player/coach interactions in sports; sports and religion; and crisis communication in sports organization. In response to changes in the sporting landscape, the Fifth Edition features an extensive structural change and reorganization with newly designed units and chapters in addition to introducing a new coauthor Nicky Lewis.
Table of Contents
Preface
About the Book
New for the Fifth Edition
Features of the Book
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction to Communication and Sport
Communication and Sport
Perspectives and Approaches
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Communication & Sport
Communication Theory Defined
Theories of Media and Society
Theories of Sport Professions
Theories of Language and Symbols
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 3: Interpersonal Interactions
Sport Culture: Game Versus Sport
Sport Socialization
Family Sports Interaction
Coaching and Sport Outcomes
Parent–Coach Interactions
Peer Interactions
Other Communication Contexts
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 4: Small Group and Team Interactions
Team/Group Cohesion
Group/Team Processes in Sport
Sport and Communication Cultures
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 5: Legacy Media Interactions
Legacy Media in Society
Legacy Media and Sport Professions
Language and Symbols in Legacy Media
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 6: Social and User-Generated Media Interactions
Social Media and UGC in Society
Coaching and Sport Outcomes
Parent–Coach Interactions
Peer Interactions
Other Communication Contexts
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 4: Small Group and Team Interactions
Team/Group Cohesion
Group/Team Processes in Sport
Sport and Communication Cultures
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 5: Legacy Media Interactions
Legacy Media in Society
Legacy Media and Sport Professions
Language and Symbols in Legacy Media
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 6: Social and User-Generated Media Interactions
Social Media and UGC in Society
Social Media, UGC, and Sport Professions
Language and Symbols in Social Media and UGC
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 7: Sports Storytelling
Sport as Entertainment
The Practice of Sports Storytelling
The Practice of Sports Storytelling
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 8: Sport and Mythology
The Language of Myth
Sport Myth
Sport and Ritual
Sport Heroes
Sport as Religion
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 9: Media Representations of Sports Identity
Gender Representations in Sports Media
Racial Representations in Sports Media
Additional Identity Representations in Sports Media
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 10: Performing Identity in Sports
Performance of Gender and Sexuality
Performance of Race and Ethnicity
Performance and Disability
Performance and Disability and Mental Health
Performance and Disability and Mental Health
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 11: Sport and Politics
Sport as a Political Resource
Sport and the Language of Politics and War
Sport and Globalization
Sports Diplomacy and Sportswashing
Sports and Activism
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Readin
Chapter 12: Sport & National Identity
Facets of National Identity
Nation Branding
Sport and National Identity
Sport and Globalization
Transnational and Multinational Identity
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 13: Commericalism and Sport
The Sports/Media Complex
Corporate Sponsorship
Nostalgia
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 14: Reputation and Crisis Management in Sport
Situational Crisis Communication Theory
Image Repair and Apologia
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
Chapter 15: Sports Gaming
Fantasy Sports
Sports Gambling
Conclusion
Suggested Additional Reading
