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Examining identity in sports media

Hundley, Heather L. (Added Author). Billings, Andrew C. (Added Author).

Summary: Communication issues involving sports media permeate myriad levels of society. Using a wide variety of theoretical and methodological constructs, this book examines various media to expose how the intersection of sport and media construct reinforce, and perpetuate perceptions of human identities.

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ISBN: 1412954606
ISBN: 9781412954600
ISBN: 1412954592
ISBN: 9781412954594
ISBN: 1452274908
ISBN: 9781452274904
ISBN: 1483302091
ISBN: 9781483302096
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 279 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Los Angeles : Sage Publications, ©2010.

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General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Examining identity in sports media / Andrew C. Billings and Heather L. Hundley -- The Rene Portland case : new homophobia and heterosexism in women's sports coverage / Marie Hardin and Erin Whiteside -- Exploring the influence of mediated beauty : competitive female athletes' perceptions of ideal beauty in athletes and other women / Kim L. Bissell -- Making masculinity and framing femininity : FIFA, soccer, and World Cup websites / Lindsey J. Meân -- Gendered sports dirt : interrogating sex and the single beer commercial / Lawrence A. Wenner -- Hegemonic masculinity and the rogue warrior : Lance Armstrong as (symbolic) American / Bryan E. Denham and Andrea Duke -- Do you believe in nationalism? : American patriotism in miracle / Michael L. Butterworth -- The whiteness of sport media/scholarship / Mary G. McDonald -- A content analysis of racial representations of NBA athletes on sports illustrated magazine covers : 1970-2003 / Benjamin D. Goss, Andrew L. Tyler, and Andrew C. Billings -- Sporting images of disability : murderball and the rehabilitation of masculine identity / James L. Cherney and Kurt Lindemann -- The effects of outcome of mediated and live sporting events on sports fans' self- and social identities / Jennings Bryant and R. Glenn Cummins -- The institutional(ized) nature of identity in and around sport(s) / Kelby K. Halone.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Access restricted by subscription. Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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Source of Description Note:	Print version record.