The Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio is the latest sports-media scholarship from the author of How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism, winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association s Communication and Sport Division.?
The book provides a descriptive analysis of the social interaction transpiring in what the author has conceptualized as the the hyper-mediated marketplace of sports narratives. It examines the social structures and processes that make sports-talk radio such a vibrant societal milieu, and seeks to identify the essential sociological dynamics that make all that endless chatter so vital to listeners. A qualitative, descriptive analytical focus on this remarkable platformwhere people come together to interact insistently, colorfully, and often with stunning ferocityhighlights key processes by which human communicators construct meaning.
1. Introduction: Why the Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio Matters
2. National Sports Talk
3. More Intensity in Major Regional Talk
4. Small Talk and a Perfect Example of Contested Narratives
5. Talk From Beyond the Male Gaze
6. Conclusion: What Matters Most Sociologically
Robert L. Kerr teaches media history and law at the University of Oklahoma, USA. He is a past winner of the National Communication Associations Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression. He has twice received his colleges teaching award.?
This book provides a descriptive analysis of the social interaction transpiring in what the author has conceptualized as the the hyper-mediated marketplace of sports narratives. It examines the social structures and processes that make sports-talk radio suchlãÉ
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