Sports and identity : new agendas in communication

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Author:

Brummett, Barry, 1951-

ISBN:

9780415711920

9780415711913

Physical Description:

xv, 312 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

New agendas in communication

New agendas in communication.

Contents:

PART I. Sport and Race -- -- Brawn, Brains, and the Dearth of Black NFL Quarterbacks / Luke Winslow -- Cullen Jones is My Friend! : Increasing Diversity in Swimming through Parasocial Relationships on Facebook / Katherine L. Lavelle -- LeBron James as Cybercolonized Spectacle : A critical Race Reading of Whiteness in Sport / Rachel Alicia Griffin and Joshua Daniel Phillips -- Jackie Robinson, Civic Republicanism and Black Political Culture / Abraham Khan -- "Grit and Graciousness" : Sport, Rhetoric, and Race in Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign / Bonnie J. Sierlecki -- -- PART II. Sport and Gender -- -- Female Ballplayers as Feminine Tomboys and Citizens : A Progressive Concordance in American Culture / Korryn D. Mozisek -- Constructing Replay, Consuming Bodies : Sport Media and Neoliberal Citizenship / Thomas Patrick Oates -- "Dreams Include Pregnant Bellies or Being Passed around the Frat House": Investigating Heteronormativity in Sport / Marissa M. Yandall -- -- PART III. Sport and Image Management -- -- Managing Ideologies and Identities : Reporting Penn State Scandal / Lindsey J. Mean -- Just Warming Up : Logan Morrison, Twitter, Athlete Identity, and Building the Brand / Jimmy Sanderson -- "Where My Falcons At?" : The Stroh Center Rap and Representation of Organizational Identites in College Sports / Raymond I. Schuck -- -- PART IV. Sport Mediation and Simulation -- -- Biopolotics, Algorithms, Identity : Electronic Arts and the Sports Gamer / Andrew Baerg -- Family (Sports) Television : Exploring Cultural Power, Domestic Leisure, and Fandom in the Modern Context / Maric Hardin -- Coaching Neoliberal Citizen/Subjects, Fulfilling Fundamental Fantasies : Cultural Discourse of Fantasy Football / Meredith M. Bagley.

Abstract:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Sports -- Psychological aspects.

Identity (Psychology)

Group identity.

Communication in sports.

Added Author:

Brummett, Barry, 1951-

Electronic Access:

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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. 　