Defining Sport Communication [Hardcover]

Defining Sport Communication is a comprehensive resource addressing core topics and issues, including humanistic, organizational, relational, and mediated approaches to the study of sport communication. It provides foundational work in sport communication for students and scholars, reflecting the abundance of research published in recent years and the ever-increasing interest in this area of study.

Bringing together scholars from various epistemological viewpoints within communication, this volume provides a unique opportunity for defining the breadth and depth of sport communication research. It will serve as a seminal reference for existing scholarship while also providing an agenda for future research.

Table of Contents: DefiningSport Communication

Introduction. Andrew C. Billings, University of Alabama

Unit I. Humanistic Approaches to Sport

Chapter 1. Sport as rhetorical artifact (Michael L. Butterworth, Ohio University)

Chapter 2. Sport as critical/cultural studies (Daniel A. Grano, University of North Carolina-Charlotte)

Chapter 3. Sports and the communication of ethics (Lawrence A. Wenner, Loyola Marymount University)

Chapter 4. Sport and ethnography: An embodied practice meets an embodied method (Robert Krizek, St. Louis University)

Chapter 5. Sport and political communication/Political communication and sport: Taking the flame (Davis W. Houck, Florida State University)

Chapter 6. Sport as gender/feminist studies (Lindsey J. Me?n, Arizona State University)

Chapter 7. Sport and race: A disciplinary history and exhortation (Abraham I. Khan, Pennsylvania State University)

Chapter 8. Sport and GLBTQ issues (Edward M. Kian, Oklahoma State University)

Unit II. Organizational/Relational Approaches to Sport