Including the work of top sports communication researchers, Examining Identity in Sports Media explores identity issues, including gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and (dis)ability, as well as the intersections within these various identity issues. This co-edited, twelve-chapter book investigates how various identity groups are framed, treated, affected, and shaped by a ubiquitous sports media, including television, magazines, film, the Internet, and newspapers. While other books may devote a chapter or section to issues of identity in sports media, this book offers a complete examination of identity from cover to cover, allowing identity variables to be both isolated and intermingled to capture how identity is negotiated within sports media platforms. Far more than a series of case studies, this book surveys the current state of the field while providing insight on future directions for identity scholarship in sports communication.
Examining Identity in Sports Media is ideal for undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Sports Communication, Sports Media, Media Criticism, Sports Sociology, Gender Communication, and Identity Politics.
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Acknowledgments
1. Examining Identity in Sports Media – Andrew C. Billings, Heather L. Hundley
2. The Rene Portland Case: New Homophobia and Heterosexism in Women′s Sports Coverage – Marie Hardin, Erin Whiteside
3. Exploring the Influence of Mediated Beauty: Competitive Female Athletes′ Perceptions of Ideal Beauty in Athletes and Other Women – Kim L. Bissell
4. Making Masculinity and Framing Femininity: FIFA, Soccer, and World Cup Web Sites – Lindsay Mean
5. Gendered Sports Dirt: Interrogating Sex and the Single Beer Commercial – Lawrence A. Wenner
6. Hegemonic Masculinity and the Rogue Warrior: Lance Armstrong as (Symbolic) American – Bryan E. Denham, Andrea Duke
7. Do You Believe in Nationalism? American Patriotism in Miracle – Michael L. Butterworth
8. The Whiteness of Sport Media/Scholarship – Mary G. Mc Donald
9. A Content Analysis of Racial Representations of NBA Athletes on Sports Illustrated Magazine Covers, 1970-2003 – Benjamin D. Goss, Andrew L. Tyler, Andrew C. Billings
10. Sporting Images of Disability: Murderball and the Rehabilitation of Masculine Identity – James L. Cherney, Kurt Lindemann
11. The Effects of Outcome of Mediated and Live Sporting Events on Sports Fans′ Self- and Social Identities – Jennings Bryant, R. Glenn Cummins
12. The Institutional(ized) Nature of Identity in and Around Sport(s) – Kelby K. Halone
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About the Editors
About the Contributors
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Dr. Andrew C. Billings (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1999) is the Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting, Executive Director of the Alabama Program in Sports Communication, and Professor in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media at the University of Alabama. His research interests lie in the intersection of sport, mass media, and consumption habits. With 20 books and over 200 journal articles and book chapters, he is one of the most published sports media scholars in the world. His books include Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Television (Routledge, 2008), Mascot Nation: The Controversy Over Native American Mascots in Sports (with Jason Edward Black, University of Illinois Press, 2019), Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports (with Leigh M. Moscowitz, Peter Lang, 2019) and The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication (with William L. Benoit, Peter Lang, 2020). His journal outlets include the Journal of Communication, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Communication & Sport, Mass Communication & Society, and the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. His writings have been translated into five languages. He has lectured in nations around the world, from Spain to China to Austria. He serves as Associate Editor for both Communication & Sport and Journal of Global Sport Management as well as a book series, “Communication, Sport, and Society” with Peter Lang Press. His work in the classroom has also earned him many teaching awards. He has been interviewed over 600 times by media outlets ranging from The New York Times to The Los Angeles Times to ESPN. Billings has also consulted with many sports media agencies and is a past holder of the Invited Chair of Olympism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Before joining the faculty at Alabama, he was at Clemson University (1999-2001). He is an avid Green Bay Packers fan and pop culture watcher.