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Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-Century Liberal Political Writing - Political Zoologies of the French... Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-Century Liberal Political Writing - Political Zoologies of the French Enlightenment
Andrew Billing
R4,584 Discovery Miles 45 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Our tendency to read French Enlightenment political writing from a narrow disciplinary perspective has obscured the hybrid character of political philosophy, rhetoric, and natural science in the period. As Michèle Duchet and others have shown, French Enlightenment thinkers developed a philosophical anthropology to support new political norms and models. This book explores how five important eighteenth-century French political authors—Rousseau, Diderot, La Mettrie, Quesnay, and Rétif de La Bretonne—also constructed a "political zoology" in their philosophical and literary writings informed by animal references drawn from Enlightenment natural history, science, and physiology. Drawing on theoretical work by Derrida, Latour, de Fontenay, and others, it shows how these five authors signed on to the old rhetorical tradition of animal comparisons in political philosophy, which they renewed via the findings and speculations of contemporary science. Engaging with recent scholarship on Enlightenment political thought, it also explores the links between their political zoologies and their family resemblance as "liberal" political thinkers.

The Fantasy Sport Industry - Games within Games (Hardcover): Andrew Billings, Brody Ruihley The Fantasy Sport Industry - Games within Games (Hardcover)
Andrew Billings, Brody Ruihley
R4,436 Discovery Miles 44 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fantasy sport has become big business. Recent estimates suggest that there as many as 33 million fantasy sport participants in the US alone, spending $3bn annually, with many millions more around the world. This is the first in-depth study of fantasy sport as a cultural and social phenomenon and a significant and growing component of the contemporary sports economy. This book presents an overview of the history of fantasy sport and its close connection to innovations in sports media. Drawing on extensive empirical research, it offers an analysis of the demographics of fantasy sport, the motivations of fantasy sport players and their significance as heavy consumers of sport media and as ultra-fans. It also draws cross-cultural comparisons between fantasy sport players in the US, UK, Europe and beyond. The Fantasy Sport Industry examines the key commercial and media stakeholders in the production and development of fantasy sport, and points to new directions for the fantasy sport industry within modern sport business. It is therefore, fascinating reading for any student, scholar or professional with an interest in sports media, sports business, fandom, the relationship between sport and society, or cultural studies.

Olympic Media - Inside the Biggest Show on Television (Hardcover, New): Jennifer Hargreaves Olympic Media - Inside the Biggest Show on Television (Hardcover, New)
Jennifer Hargreaves; Andrew Billings; Series edited by Ian McDonald
R4,588 Discovery Miles 45 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Located in the United States, NBC (National Broadcasting Company) is the biggest and most powerful Olympic network in the world, having won the rights to televise both the Summer and the Winter Olympic Games. By way of attracting more viewers of both sexes and all ages and ethnicities than any other sporting event, and through the production of breathtaking spectacles and absorbing stories, NBC's Olympic telecasts have huge power and potential to shape viewer perceptions. Billings's unique text examines the production, content, and potential effects of NBC's Olympic telecasts. Interviews with key NBC Olympic producers and sportscasters (including NBC Universal Sports and Olympics President Dick Ebersol and primetime anchor Bob Costas) outline the inner workings of the NBC Olympic machine; content analyses from ten years of Olympic telecasts (1996-2006) examine the portrayal of nationality, gender, and ethnicity within NBC's telecast; and survey analyses interrogate the extent to which NBC's storytelling process affects viewer beliefs about identity issues. This mixed-method approach offers valuable insights into what Billings portrays as "the biggest show on television".

Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media (Hardcover, New): Andrew Billings, Marie Hardin Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media (Hardcover, New)
Andrew Billings, Marie Hardin
R6,412 Discovery Miles 64 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

New media technologies have become a central part of the sports media landscape. Sports fans use new media to watch games, discuss sports transactions, form fan-based communities, and secure minutiae about their favorite players and teams. Never before have fans known so much about athletes, whether that happens via Twitter feeds, fan sites, or blogs, and never before have the lines between producer, consumer, enactor, fan and athlete been more blurred. The Internet has made virtually everything available for sports media consumption; it has also made understanding sports media substantially more complex. The Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media is the most comprehensive and in-depth study of the impact of new media in sport ever to be published. Adopting a broad, interdisciplinary approach, the book explores new media in sport as a cultural, social, commercial, economic, and technological phenomenon, examining the profound impact of digital technologies on that the way that sport is produced, consumed and understood. There is no aspect of social life or commercial activity in general that is not being radically influenced by the rise of new media forms, and by offering a "state of the field" survey of work in this area, the Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media is important reading for any advanced student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in sports studies, media studies or communication studies.

The Fantasy Sport Industry - Games within Games (Paperback): Andrew Billings, Brody Ruihley The Fantasy Sport Industry - Games within Games (Paperback)
Andrew Billings, Brody Ruihley
R1,702 Discovery Miles 17 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fantasy sport has become big business. Recent estimates suggest that there as many as 27 million fantasy sport participants in the US alone, spending $1.5bn annually, with many millions more around the world. This is the first in-depth study of fantasy sport as a cultural and social phenomenon and a significant and growing component of the contemporary sports economy. This book presents an overview of the history of fantasy sport and its close connection to innovations in sports media. Drawing on extensive empirical research, it offers an analysis of the demographics of fantasy sport, the motivations of fantasy sport players and their significance as heavy consumers of sport media and as ultra-fans. It also draws cross-cultural comparisons between fantasy sport players in the US, UK, Europe and beyond. The Fantasy Sport Industry examines the key commercial and media stakeholders in the production and development of fantasy sport, and points to new directions for the fantasy sport industry within modern sport business. It is therefore, fascinating reading for any student, scholar or professional with an interest in sports media, sports business, fandom, the relationship between sport and society, or cultural studies.

Sports Media - Transformation, Integration, Consumption (Hardcover): Andrew Billings Sports Media - Transformation, Integration, Consumption (Hardcover)
Andrew Billings
R4,743 Discovery Miles 47 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Looking toward a future with increasingly hybridized media offerings, Sports Media: Transformation, Integration, Consumption examines sports media scholarship and its role in facilitating understanding of the increasingly complex world of sports media. Acknowledging that consumer demand for sports media content has influenced nearly every major technology innovation of the past several decades, chapters included herein assess existing scholarship while positing important future questions about the role sports media will play in the daily lives of sports fans worldwide. Contributions from well-known scholars are supplemented by work from younger researchers doing new work in this area. Developed for the Broadcast Education Association's Electronic Media Research series, this volume will be required reading for graduate and undergraduate students in media, communication, sociology, marketing, and sports management, and will serve as a valuable reference for future research in sports media.

Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media (Paperback): Andrew Billings, Marie Hardin Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media (Paperback)
Andrew Billings, Marie Hardin
R2,116 Discovery Miles 21 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

New media technologies have become a central part of the sports media landscape. Sports fans use new media to watch games, discuss sports transactions, form fan-based communities, and secure minutiae about their favorite players and teams. Never before have fans known so much about athletes, whether that happens via Twitter feeds, fan sites, or blogs, and never before have the lines between producer, consumer, enactor, fan and athlete been more blurred. The Internet has made virtually everything available for sports media consumption; it has also made understanding sports media substantially more complex. The Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media is the most comprehensive and in-depth study of the impact of new media in sport ever to be published. Adopting a broad, interdisciplinary approach, the book explores new media in sport as a cultural, social, commercial, economic, and technological phenomenon, examining the profound impact of digital technologies on the way that sport is produced, consumed and understood. There is no aspect of social life or commercial activity in general that is not being radically influenced by the rise of new media forms, and by offering a "state of the field" survey of work in this area, the Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media is important reading for any advanced student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in sports studies, media studies or communication studies.

Sports Media - Transformation, Integration, Consumption (Paperback): Andrew Billings Sports Media - Transformation, Integration, Consumption (Paperback)
Andrew Billings
R1,530 Discovery Miles 15 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Looking toward a future with increasingly hybridized media offerings, Sports Media: Transformation, Integration, Consumption examines sports media scholarship and its role in facilitating understanding of the increasingly complex world of sports media. Acknowledging that consumer demand for sports media content has influenced nearly every major technology innovation of the past several decades, chapters included herein assess existing scholarship while positing important future questions about the role sports media will play in the daily lives of sports fans worldwide. Contributions from well-known scholars are supplemented by work from younger researchers doing new work in this area. Developed for the Broadcast Education Association's Electronic Media Research series, this volume will be required reading for graduate and undergraduate students in media, communication, sociology, marketing, and sports management, and will serve as a valuable reference for future research in sports media.

Olympic Media - Inside the Biggest Show on Television (Paperback, New): Jennifer Hargreaves Olympic Media - Inside the Biggest Show on Television (Paperback, New)
Jennifer Hargreaves; Andrew Billings; Series edited by Ian McDonald
R1,702 Discovery Miles 17 020 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Located in the United States, NBC (National Broadcasting Company) is the biggest and most powerful Olympic network in the world, having won the rights to televise both the Summer and the Winter Olympic Games. By way of attracting more viewers of both sexes and all ages and ethnicities than any other sporting event, and through the production of breathtaking spectacles and absorbing stories, NBC's Olympic telecasts have huge power and potential to shape viewer perceptions. Billings's unique text examines the production, content, and potential effects of NBC's Olympic telecasts. Interviews with key NBC Olympic producers and sportscasters (including NBC Universal Sports and Olympics President Dick Ebersol and primetime anchor Bob Costas) outline the inner workings of the NBC Olympic machine; content analyses from ten years of Olympic telecasts (1996-2006) examine the portrayal of nationality, gender, and ethnicity within NBC's telecast; and survey analyses interrogate the extent to which NBC's storytelling process affects viewer beliefs about identity issues. This mixed-method approach offers valuable insights into what Billings portrays as "the biggest show on television".

Up From The Ashes - Forty Lessons of Faith Towards Victorious Christian Living (Paperback): Andrew Bills Up From The Ashes - Forty Lessons of Faith Towards Victorious Christian Living (Paperback)
Andrew Bills
R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a 40 day inspirational devotional for inner healing, recovery, restoration, deliverance, strength and providing answers that has been tried by fire. From a homeless, jobless, back-slidden, convicted & divorced position, God forgave, restored and placed His hand upon his life and took him from living on the streets to having a thriving worldwide ministry. Now Pastor Andrew Bills presents this inspiring book where you'll learn that the hardest spots in life can also become the place of new revelation and a new beginning for you. You too will be healed, delivered, restored, inspired and blessed from the spiritual principles within this book.

Fantasy Sports and the Changing Sports Media Industry - Media, Players, and Society (Hardcover): Nicholas David Bowman, John S.... Fantasy Sports and the Changing Sports Media Industry - Media, Players, and Society (Hardcover)
Nicholas David Bowman, John S. W. Spinda, Jimmy Sanderson; Contributions by Shaun Anderson, Andrew Baerg, …
R3,853 Discovery Miles 38 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited collection examines how fantasy sports play has established a prominent and promising foothold in the larger sports ecology. Often considered an isolated activity for the hardcore sports fan, fantasy sports play have since been incorporated into sports broadcasting and editorial coverage, sports marketing and promotions, and even into the very sports themselves with athletes and teams using the activities to draw fans further into the sports experience. This edited collection invites leading scholars and sports professionals from several different fields to share historical and emerging perspectives on the importance of fantasy sports as an artifact of theoretical and empirical importance to larger issues of sport and society. \

Over Here, Over There-The Andrews Sisters (Paperback): Maxene Andrews, Bill Gilbert Over Here, Over There-The Andrews Sisters (Paperback)
Maxene Andrews, Bill Gilbert
R480 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R54 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The upbeat, three-part harmony of the Andrews Sisters brightened the spirits of Americans at home and abroad during the dark years of World War II. This book makes those years come alive again in a richly nostalgic, warmly affectionate look back at a country at war--and the talented men and women who entertained the troops fighting it.

Negocio de Ensino Secundario arriscado (Portuguese, Paperback): Andrew Bills Negocio de Ensino Secundario arriscado (Portuguese, Paperback)
Andrew Bills
R1,309 Discovery Miles 13 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Un'attivita scolastica secondaria rischiosa (Italian, Paperback): Andrew Bills Un'attivita scolastica secondaria rischiosa (Italian, Paperback)
Andrew Bills
R1,307 Discovery Miles 13 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Les risques de l'enseignement secondaire (French, Paperback): Andrew Bills Les risques de l'enseignement secondaire (French, Paperback)
Andrew Bills
R1,309 Discovery Miles 13 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Riskantes Geschaft in der Sekundarstufe (German, Paperback): Andrew Bills Riskantes Geschaft in der Sekundarstufe (German, Paperback)
Andrew Bills
R1,310 Discovery Miles 13 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports (Hardcover, New edition): Andrew Billings, Leigh Moscowitz Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports (Hardcover, New edition)
Andrew Billings, Leigh Moscowitz
R4,306 Discovery Miles 43 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Never before have we lived in a time in which sport and gay identity are more visible, discussed, debated-and even celebrated. However, in an era in which the sports closet is heralded as the last remaining stronghold of heterosexuality, the terrain for the gay athlete remains contradictory at best. Gay athletes in American team sports are thus living a paradox: told that sport represents the "final closet" in American culture while at the same time feeling ostracized, labeled a "distraction" for teams, dubbed locker room "problems," and experiencing careers which are halted or cut short altogether. Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports is the first of its kind, building upon the narratives of athletes and how their coming out experiences are shaped, transmitted and received through pervasive, powerful, albeit imperfect commercial media. Featuring in-depth interviews with out-athletes such as Jason Collins, Dave Kopay, Billy Bean and John Amaechi; media gatekeepers from outlets like ESPN and USA Today; and league representatives from Major League Baseball and the National Football League, this book explores one of the starkest juxtapositions in athletics: there are no active out players in the NFL, NBA, MLB, or NHL, yet the number of athletes coming out at virtually every other level of sport is unprecedented. Interviews are fused with qualitative media analysis of coming out stories and informed by decades of literature on the unique intersection of sport, media, and sexual identity.

Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports (Paperback, New edition): Andrew Billings, Leigh Moscowitz Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports (Paperback, New edition)
Andrew Billings, Leigh Moscowitz
R1,729 Discovery Miles 17 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Never before have we lived in a time in which sport and gay identity are more visible, discussed, debated-and even celebrated. However, in an era in which the sports closet is heralded as the last remaining stronghold of heterosexuality, the terrain for the gay athlete remains contradictory at best. Gay athletes in American team sports are thus living a paradox: told that sport represents the "final closet" in American culture while at the same time feeling ostracized, labeled a "distraction" for teams, dubbed locker room "problems," and experiencing careers which are halted or cut short altogether. Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports is the first of its kind, building upon the narratives of athletes and how their coming out experiences are shaped, transmitted and received through pervasive, powerful, albeit imperfect commercial media. Featuring in-depth interviews with out-athletes such as Jason Collins, Dave Kopay, Billy Bean and John Amaechi; media gatekeepers from outlets like ESPN and USA Today; and league representatives from Major League Baseball and the National Football League, this book explores one of the starkest juxtapositions in athletics: there are no active out players in the NFL, NBA, MLB, or NHL, yet the number of athletes coming out at virtually every other level of sport is unprecedented. Interviews are fused with qualitative media analysis of coming out stories and informed by decades of literature on the unique intersection of sport, media, and sexual identity.

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