Sport and Communication

Raymond Boyle University of Stirling

• VOLUME ONE: History and Context: Heroes and Villains′They Play in Your Home’: Cricket, Media and Modernity in Pre-War Australia - Frazer AndrewesLong before Arledge . . . Sports and TV: The Earliest Years: 1937–1947 – as Seen by the Contemporary Press - Dave BerkmanMedia Sport: Hot and Cool - Susan Birrell and John Loy, JrFrom Our Gaelic Fields: Radio, Sport and Nation in Post-Partition Ireland - Raymond BoyleDrama in Sports Commentary - Jennings Bryant, Paul Comisky and Dolf ZillmannSport and the Media in Ireland: An Introduction - Seán Crosson and Philip DineA Speculative Paradigm on the Birth of the Modern Sport Spectacular: The Real Madrid and Eintracht Frankfurt European Cup Final of 1960 - Scott CrawfordSport on Commercial Norwegian Radio 1988 to 2003 - P. Dahlen and R. ThomsenLocal Radio Sport from the Producer’s Point of View - Peter GilmoreHow Should We Theorize Sport in a Capitalist Patriarchy? - M. Ann HallA Pageant of Sound and Vision: Football’s Relationship with Television, 1936–60 - Richard Haynes‘Lobby’ and the Formative Years of Radio Sports Commentary, 1935–1952 - Richard HaynesThe BBC, Austerity and Broadcasting the 1948 Olympic Games - Richard HaynesBBC Radio and Sport 1922–39 - Mike HugginsThe Interdependence of Sport and Culture - Günther LüschenHero Crafting in Sporting Life, an Early Baseball Journal - Lori RoessnerMaking Soccer a ‘Kick in the Grass′: The Media′s Role in Promoting a Marginal Sport, 1975–1977 - Thom SatterleeAssessing the Sociology of Sport: On the Mediasport Interpellation and Commodity Narratives - Lawrence WennerThe Unholy Alliance: Notes on Television and the Re-making of British Sport - Garry WhannelPregnant with Anticipation: The Pre-History of Television Sport and the Politics of Recycling and Preservation - Garry WhannelFrom Plantation to Playing Field: Historical Writings on the Black Athlete in American Sports - D.K. WigginsVOLUME TWO: Sport, Media and Communicating IdentitiesSelective Representation of Gender, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Television Coverage of the 2000 Summer Olympics - Andrew Billings and Susan Tyler Eastman‘The Grand Old Game’: Football, Media and Identity in Scotland - Raymond Boyle and Richard HaynesItalian Television Sport Coverage during the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games: A Gender Perspective - Laura Capranica and Fabrizio AversaA Content Analysis of News Coverage of Asian Female Olympic Athletes - Chia-Chen YuWomen Play Sport, but Not on TV: A Longitudinal Study of Televised News Media - Cheryl Cooky, Michael Messner and Robin HextrumGendered Narratives in Spain: The Representation of Female Athletes in Marca and El País - Liz Crolley and Elena TesoWhich Nation, Which Flag? Boxing and National Identities in Ireland - Mike CroninThe Power of Stereotypes: Anchoring Images through Language in Live Sports Broadcasts - Fabrice Desmarais and Toni BruceLiberal and Radical Sources of Female Empowerment in Sport Media - Margaret Carlisle Duncan and Barry BrummettSeparating the Men from the Girls: The Gendered Language of Televised Sport - Michael Messner, Margaret Carlisle Duncan and Kerry JensenWomen’s Boxing and Related Activities: Introducing Images and Meanings - Jennifer HargreavesSport, National Identity and Public Policy - Barrie HoulihanRace Relations, Sociology of Sport and the New Politics of Race and Racism - Grant Jarvie and Irene ReidThe Death of a Female Boxer: Media, Sport, Nationalism, and Gender - Roy McCreeSports Spectacle as Drama: Image, Language, and Technology - Barbra Morris and Joel NydahlDallas with Balls: Televised Sport, Soap Opera and Male and Female Pleasures - Barbara O’Connor and Raymond BoyleMapping the Mythical: A Geopolitics of National Sporting Stereotypes - Hugh O’DonnellExamining Equity in Newspaper Photographs: A Content Analysis of the Print Media Photographic Coverage of Interscholastic Athletics - Paul Mark PedersenMediated Patriot Games: The Construction and Representation of National Identities in the British Television Production of Euro ’96 - Emma PoultonNegotiations and Mediations: Journalism, Professional Status and the Making of the Sports Text - D. Rowe and D. StevensonThe Gender Gap in the Enjoyment of Televised Sport - Stephanie Lee Sargent, Dolf Zillmann and James B. Weaver IIITelevising International Sport: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalistic Bias - Don Sabo, Sue Curry Jansen, Danny Tate, Margaret Carlisle Duncan and Susan LeggettConstructing Racial/Ethnic Difference In and Through Dutch Televised Soccer Commentary - Jacco van Sterkenburg, Annelies Knoppers and Sonja de Leeuw‘Impossible Is a Fact’: Greek Nationalism and International Recognition in Euro 2004 - Rodanthi Tzanelli‘Good Blacks’ and ‘Bad Blacks’: Media Constructions of African-American Athletes in Canadian Basketball - Brian WilsonVOLUME THREE: The Sports Communication IndustriesTwenty20 as Media Event - Nick Anstead and Ben O’LoughlinBe Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire - Michael Eric DysonThe Hungry Games: Television at the Atlanta Olympics - S. Feldman“You Gotta Appease the People Who Run This Place”: Corporate Ownership and Its Influence on Sports Television Production - Jason GenoveseThe Globalization of Sports, the Rise of Non-Western Nations, and the Impact on International Sporting Events - Amit GuptaAssessing the Sociology of Sport: On Media, Advertising and the Commodification of Culture - Steven JacksonUnimagined China: Media, Technologies and the Fragmentation of National Olympic Audiences - Kevin LathamThe Global Sport Mass Media Oligopoly: The Three Usual Suspects and More - Alan Law, Jean Harvey and Stuart KempPublic Relations and Sport in Promotional Culture - Jacquie L’EtangMass Media and the Experience of Sport - Janet Lever and Stanton WheelerSports Page: A Case Study in the Manufacture of Sports News for the Daily Press - M.D. LowesMore Than a Sporting Touchdown: The Making of American Football in England, 1982–1990 - J. MaguireThe Global Media Sports Complex: Key Issues and Concerns - Joseph MaguireThe Marketing of the Women’s National Basketball Association and the Making of Postfeminism - Mary McDonaldSport as Kitsch: A Case Study of The American Gladiators - Robert RinehartThe Global Love-Match: Sport and Television - David RoweAssessing the Sociology of Sport: On Media and Power - David RoweOlympic Spectacle: Opening Ceremonies and Some Paradoxes of Globalization - Alan TomlinsonThe Structure of Televised Football - Brien R. WilliamsThe Local and the Global in English Soccer and the Rise of Satellite Television - J. William‘It’s Gotta Be the Shoes’: Youth, Race and Sneaker Commercials - B. Wilson and R. SparksVOLUME FOUR: Sports and the Digital AgeSoccer, Broadcasting, and Narrative: On Televising a Live Soccer Match - Andrew BarnfieldLive-Streaming: Will Football Fans Continue To Be More Law Abiding than Music Fans? - Jack Birmingham and Matthew DavidNew Media, Professional Sport and Political Economy - Jon DartTwitter’s Diffusion in Sports Journalism: Role Models, Laggards and Followers of the Social Media Innovation - Peter EnglishSpain: Media Focus on the Geopolitical Issues of a Major Sporting Event - Emilio Fernández Peña and Miquel de MoragasWomen Reporting Sport: Still a Man’s Game? - Suzanne Franks and Deirdre O’NeillSports on Traditional and Newer Digital Media: Is There Really a Fight for Fans? - Walter Gantz and Nicky LewisFrom Broadcast Scarcity to Digital Plenitude: The Changing Dynamics of the Media Sport Content Economy - Brett Hutchins and David RoweSport on the Move: The Unfolding Impact of Mobile Communications on the Media Sport Content Economy - Brett HutchinsTales of the Digital Sublime: Tracing the Relationship between Big Data and Professional Sport - Brett HutchinsMediating the Olympics - P. David Marshall, Becky Walker and Nicholas RussoFootball′s Coming Home? Digital Reterritorialization, Contradictions in the Transnational Coverage of Sport and the Sociology of Alternative Football Broadcasts - Matthew David and Peter MillwardSports Journalism: Still the ‘Toy Department′ of the News Media? - David RoweBill Simmons, Grantland.com, and ESPN’s Corporate Reinvention of Literary Sports Writing Online - Travis Vogan and David DowlingThe Paradoxical Character of Live Television Sport in the Twenty-First Century - Garry WhannelEstablishing a Typology of Social Media Uses in the Sport Industry: A Multidimensional Scaling Study - Chad Witkemper, Matthew Blaszka and Jinwook ChungThe EPL Drama – Paving the Way for More Illegal Streaming? Digital Piracy of Live Sports Broadcasts in Singapore - Donna Wong

Boyle astutely navigates the many layers of sport and communication, navigating the historical with the contemporary, the empirical with thehumanistic, and the local with the global. This collection is a must-have for anyone seeking core underpinnings of the blending of communication with sport.