1st Edition
Sports and Identity New Agendas in Communication
Sport and Race:
Chapter 1 Brawn, Brains, and the Dearth of Black NFL Quarterbacks, Luke Winslow
Chapter 2 Cullen Jones is my Friend!: Increasing Diversity in Swimming Through Parasocial Relationships on Facebook, Katherine L. Lavelle
Chapter 3 LeBron James as Cybercolonized Spectacle: A Critical Race Reading of Whiteness in Sport, Rachel Alicia Griffin and Joshua Daniel Phillips
Chapter 4 Jackie Robinson, Civic Republicanism, and Black Political Culture, Abraham Iqbal Khan
Chapter 5 "Grit and Graciousness": Sport, Rhetoric, and Race in Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign, Bonnie J. Sierlecki
Sport and Gender:
Chapter 6 Female Ballplayers as Feminine Tomboys and Citizens: A Progressive Concordance in American Culture, Korryn D. Mozisek
Chapter 7 Constructing Replay, Consuming Bodies: Sport Media and the Neoliberal Citizen, Thomas Patrick Oates
Chapter 8 ". . . dreams include pregnant bellies or being passed around the frat house": Investigating Heteronormativity in Sport, Marissa M. Yandall
Sport and Image Management:
Chapter 9 Managing Ideologies and Identities: Reporting the Penn State Scandal, Lindsey J. Meân
Chapter 10 Just Warming Up: Logan Morrison, Twitter, Athlete Identity, and Building the Brand, Jimmy Sanderson
Chapter 11 "Where My Falcons At?": The Stroh Center Rap and Representation of Organizational Identities in College Sports, Raymond I. Schuck
Sport Mediation and Simulation:
Chapter 12 Biopolitics, Algorithms, Identity: Electronic Arts and the Sports Gamer, Andrew Baerg
Chapter 13 Family (Sports) Television: Exploring Cultural Power, Domestic Leisure, and Fandom in the Modern Context, Marie Hardin
Chapter 14 Put Me In Boss: Ideological Fantasies in Cultural Discourse of Fantasy Football, Meredith Bagley
Biography
Barry Brummett is Chair of the department and Charles Sapp Centennial Professor in Communication at the University of Texas-Austin. Dr. Brummett's research interests turned early to the theories of Kenneth Burke and to epistemology and rhetoric. He is the author or coauthor of numerous scholarly essays and chapters.
Andrew Ishak completed his doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin before coming to Santa Clara University in 2012. Dr. Ishak has presented work on varied sports topics such as ethics in the B.C.S., goal-setting in women’s rugby, Burkean tropes and Michael Jordan, sports metaphors in the workplace, and social media use of athletes.
