Communication and Sport (Handbooks of Communication Science [HoCS] Book 28)

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. -- Provided by publisher Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series Acknowledgments Contents I Introduction to communication and sport 1 Communication and sport: an emergent field 2 Playing on the communication and sport field: dispositions, challenges, and priorities II Communication studies of sport 3 Through the kaleidoscope: all the colors of sports fanship 4 Moving beyond the local: media, marketing, and “satellite” sports fans 5 The organizational processes of athletic coaching 6 Are children getting outplayed? Examining the intersection of children’s involvement in physical activity, youth sports, and barriers to participation 7 From the living room to the ball field: a communicative approach to studying the family through sport 8 The sports interpreter’s role and interpreting strategies: a case study of Japanese professional baseball interpreters 9 The ethos of the activist athlete 10 Forgivable blackness: Jack Johnson and the politics of presidential clemency 11 Haram hoops? FIBA, Nike, and the hijab’s half-court defense 12 “Ideology in practice”: conceptualizing the NCAA’s as an ideograph 13 Connecting local and global aspirations and audiences: communication in, around, and about Football Club Barcelona III Sport and media 14 MediaSport: over production and global consumption 15 Uber-sport 16 Sport, media and the promotion of militarism: theoretical inter-continental reflections of the United Kingdom and South Korea 17 Football, gender, and sexism: the ugly side of the world’s beautiful game 18 Communication, sport, disability, and the (able)national 19 NBC’s diversity Olympics: promoting gay athletes in PyeongChang 20 Greening media sport: sport and the communication of environmental issues 21 Legitimizing and institutionalizing eSports in the NBA 2K League IV Communicating nationalism(s) in sport 22 The biggest double-edged sword in sport media: Olympic media and the rendering of identity 23 “For the good of the world”: the innovations and influences of the UK’s early international televizing of sport 24 Sports and the media in Germany: lessons in nationhood and multiculturalism 25 Sport celebrity and multiculturalism in South Korea during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games 26 Communication and sport in Japan 27 Communicating Igbo sports nationalism under military dictatorship and democracy 28 Sport communication and the politics of identity in the MENA region 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 30 Colombian football: a national popular of pleasure, violence, and labor 31 Football, television, and the state in Argentina: a tale of monopolies, patrimonies, and populisms V Communicating in applied sport contexts 32 Crisis communication and sport: the organization, the players, and the fans 33 Communicating fantasy sport 34 The contemporary use of social media in professional sport 35 Social media and sport marketing 36 Sport media, sport journalism, and the digital era 37 The male and female sports journalists divide on the Twittersphere 38 #Rio2016 and #WorldCup2018: social media meets journalism 39 Ghosted gods: commodifying celebrities, decrying wraiths, and contesting graven images Contributors to this volume Index "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." -- Site de l'éditeur 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 captures a full range of methods, theories, and topics that have come to define the subfield of "communication and sport" or "sports communication". Chapters include contemporary case studies, historical analyses, and theoretical overviews of the most central issues in the field, written by an international array of scholars, from established experts to emerging specialists