Abstract:Reflecting on preparations for his 1989 review of existing sports media research, Lawrence A. Wenner notes that (at that time) “there were only about a dozen works by scholars that had communication o...Reflecting on preparations for his 1989 review of existing sports media research, Lawrence A. Wenner notes that (at that time) “there were only about a dozen works by scholars that had communication or media studies as a home discipline” (1998, p. 7). Though subsequent decades saw sports media entrench themselves even more thoroughly in our social and cultural fabric, major scholarly organizations have only recently made steps toward structural support for sport-oriented communications research. Despite this arrival “after tip-off,” scholars pursuing sports media research agendas have contributed mightily to understandings of this quintessential entertainment/cultural institution, and, in doing so, communicative social processes more generally. As Andrew C. Billings notes in his new edited book, Sports Media: Transformation, Integration, Consumption, “the amount of seminal sport communication scholarship produced over the past three decades is astounding and, moreover, exceeds the overarching systemic structures that should support it” (p. 181). Billings' edited collection is the most recent work to contribute meaningfully to this research agenda's collective memory, intellectual development, and future trajectory.Read More
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
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