Handbook of sports and media

Raney, Arthur A. (Added Author). Bryant, Jennings. (Added Author).

Summary: Handbook covers the breadth of sports and media scholarship. For scholars/researchers/students in media entertainment, media psych, mass media/mass comm, sports mktg/mgmt, popular comm, popular culture & cultural studies.

Record details

ISBN: 0805851895
ISBN: 9780805851892
ISBN: 020387367X
ISBN: 9780203873670
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 633 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Sports economics and the media / Michael Mondello -- Sports sponsorship / Lance Kinney -- Why we watch and enjoy mediated sports / Arthur A. Raney -- Causes and consequences of sport team identification / Daniel L. Wann -- Sport, violence, and the media / Barrie Gunter -- Televised NFL games, the family, and domestic violence / Walter Gantz, Samuel D. Bradley, Zheng Wang -- Fantasy sports: history, game types, and research / Richard G. Lomax -- Untapped field: exploring the world of virtual sports gaming / David Leonard -- New online arena: sport, marketing, and media converge in cyberspace / Joseph E. Mahan, Stephen R. McDaniel -- Sport and globalization: key issues, phases, and trends / Joseph Maguire -- Sport, the media, and the construction of race / Andrew Grainger, Joshua I. Newman, David L. Andrews -- Crouching tiger, hidden blackness: Tiger Woods and the disappearance of race / Davis W. Houck -- Women, team sports, and the WNBA: playing like a girl / Daniela Baroffio-Bota, Sarah Banet-Weiser -- Thinking through power in sport and sport media scholarship / Mary G. McDonald -- World of criminals or a media construction? Race, gender, celebrity, and the athlete/criminal discourse / David Leonard -- Sporting bodies / Davis W. Houck -- Sports mascots and the media / C. Richard King, Laurel Davis-Delano, Ellen Staurowsky, Lawrence Baca -- Disability and sport: (non)coverage of an athletic paradox / Marie Hardin.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.