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American Sport in the Shadow of a Pandemic

Communicative Insights

Herausgegeben: Billings, Andrew C.; Wenner, Lawrence A.; Hardin, Marie

Beschreibung

Warren Buffett once opined that "only when the tide rolls out do you discover who's been swimming naked." In a similar vein, American Sport in the Shadow of a Pandemic focuses on how communication practices, structures, and principles change when a key locus-sport-has much of its cultural and political-economic power disrupted. How intertwined is the economic viability of an American collegiate institution to the communicative enactment of the regular staging of collegiate sports? What proportion of a sports media contract is for the competition itself, as opposed to the documentation of fans being "fanatic" as they witness contests live and in-person? Who and what is deemed most disposable, and how do such decisions play out for athletes of different genders, races, and abilities? Questions such as these form the core foci of this volume. As many have observed, out of crisis comes opportunity. In this instance, this volume provides an opportunity for leading scholars of communication and sport to consider which principles should be rethought or reconceptualized based on the effects of the pandemic on our culture, politics, and economy.

Autor

Andrew C. Billings (Ph.D., Indiana University) is the Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He has published over 220 journal articles and book chapters along with 22 book projects, the majority of which pertain to issues of media content and effects. Lawrence A. Wenner (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is Von der Ahe Professor of Communication and Ethics at Loyola Marymount University. Founding editor of the research journal Communication and Sport, his most recent book is the Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society. Marie Hardin (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is Dean of the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State University. Her scholarship has focused on issues of gender, diversity, and ethics in sports journalism.

Produktdetails

• Communication, Sport, and Society 5
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 319191
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 150mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9781433191916
• ISBN-10: 1433191911
• Artikelnr.: 62642655

Rezensionen

"In American Sport in the Shadow of a Pandemic, prominent sports media scholars provide timely, insightful critiques of the sports industry's response and resilience in weathering the COVID- 19 pandemic. This important volume acknowledges how an unprecedented pause in live sport revealed key truths about the sports landscape and its structures, delineating the 'need to haves' (players, media contracts) from the 'nice to haves' (predefined game schedules, live fan involvement). This collection is required reading for sports media scholars to unpack the lessons gained from COVID- 19 and to reflect on how a year of disruption may prompt social, economic, political, and cultural ripples for years to come." - Natalie Brown- Devlin, University of Texas