Communication and Sport

Surveying the Field

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• New coauthor Nicky Lewis introduces fresh new insights, perspective, and experience  from mass media and professional experience as a former sports producer. 
• Extensive reorganization of units and chapters in response to changes in the sporting landscape.
• New Chapters include Sports Storytelling, Theoretical Approaches to Communication and Sport, and Social and User-Generated Media Interactions. 
• Updated examples in addition to coverage of new developments, current controversies, and language practices. 
• New interviews, including insights from experts such as agent Leigh Steinberg, Denver Broncos President Damani Leech, and NBA Vice President Joe Dumars.
• Updated citations bring the text up to date with the latest information available in the communication and sport marketplace.

• A comprehensive focus on communication scholarship gives attention to the ways that sport produces, maintains, or resists cultural attitudes about race, gender, sexuality, class, and politics.
• Interviews with a range of experts in communication and sport help to contextualize and extend the ideas that are developed in each chapter.
• Case studies draw from specific chapter aspects to facilitate discussion about the communicative nature of sport.
• A Matter of Ethics boxes prompt readers to consider various cultural, political, and social consequences of sport.
• Theoretically Speaking boxes encourage readers to apply their knowledge of important concepts introduced in each chapter.