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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. \
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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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.
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