Sports and Identity: New Agendas in Communication
Role
Barry Brummett (Editor)
Andrew Ishak (Editor)
Files
Description
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.
ISBN
9780415711913
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Routledge
Disciplines
Critical and Cultural Studies | Journalism Studies | Mass Communication | Sports Studies
Recommended Citation
Brummett, Barry and Ishak, Andrew, "Sports and Identity: New Agendas in Communication" (2014). Faculty Book Gallery. 64.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/faculty_books/64