ABSTRACT
This volume of essays examines the ways in which sports have become a means for the communication of social identity in the United States. The essays included here explore the question, How is identity engaged in the performance and spectatorship of sports? Defining sports as the whole range of mediated professional sports, and considering actual participation in sports, the chapters herein address a varied range of ways in which sports as a cultural entity becomes a site for the creation and management of symbolic components of identity.
Originating in the New Agendas in Communication symposium sponsored by the University of Texas College of Communication, this volume provides contemporary explorations of sports and identity, highlighting the perspectives of up-and-coming scholars and researchers. It has much to offer readers in communication, sociology of sport, human kinetics, and related areas.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction
part |109 pages
Sport and Race
chapter |16 pages
Cullen Jones is My Friend!
chapter |23 pages
Lebron James As Cybercolonized Spectacle
chapter |20 pages
“Grit and Graciousness”
part |62 pages
Sport and Gender
chapter |19 pages
Female Ballplayers as Feminine Tomboys and Citizens
chapter |25 pages
“Dreams Include pregnant bellies or being passed around the frat House”
part |53 pages
Sport and Image Management
chapter |19 pages
“Where My Falcons at?”
part |62 pages
Sport Mediation and Simulation