Communication and Sport

Surveying the Field

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• New content discusses prominent figures and current events, such as LeBron James, the Black Lives Matter movement, connections between sport and the Trump presidency, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
• New interviews provide valuable insights from people such as sports reporter Sarah Spain and Chicago Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts.
• Half of all case studies and ethical examples have been updated with content students will recall from the last several years in the sports world.
• A streamlined structure combines chapters on parent/child and player/coach interactions into one chapter focusing on interpersonal elements in sport, and eliminates the concluding chapter on the future of sport.
• Updated citations bring the text up to date with the latest information available in the communication and sport marketplace.

• A comprehensive focus on communication scholarship gives attention to the ways that sport produces, maintains, or resists cultural attitudes about race, gender, sexuality, class, and politics.
• Interviews with a range of experts in communication and sport help to contextualize and extend the ideas that are developed in each chapter.
• Case studies draw from specific chapter aspects to facilitate discussion about the communicative nature of sport.
• A Matter of Ethics boxes prompt readers to consider various cultural, political, and social consequences of sport.
• Theoretically Speaking boxes encourage readers to apply their knowledge of important concepts introduced in each chapter.