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Sport, Racism and Social Media book cover

1st Edition

Sport, Racism and Social Media

By Neil Farrington, Lee Hall, Daniel Kilvington, John Price, Amir Saeed Copyright 2015
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge
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Racist abuse may at one time have been hurled across the sports stadium or scrawled on a wall. But in today’s social media world it can be published to millions, from almost anywhere, in an instant. Sport, Racism and Social Media provides the first significant, academic account of how social media is shaping the nature of racisms in sport. Among the questions it addresses are: How,... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Rise of Social Media Chapter 3. Managing Social Media Chapter 4. ‘Race’ and Racisms in a Digital World Chapter 5. Football, Racism and Social Media Chapter 6. Cricket, Racism and Social Media Chapter 7. Boxing, Racism and Social Media Chapter 8. US Sport, Racism and Social Media Chapter 9. The Way Forward

Biography

Neil Farrington was a multi award-nominated UK sports journalist with 18 years’ experience of covering international, national and regional sport, including the Olympic Games and football World Cup. He is now a Senior Lecturer in Sports Journalism at the University of Sunderland, UK.

Lee Hall is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Sunderland, UK. He was formerly digital editor at the Sunderland Echo after a long spell working in magazines which included editing national newsstand videogames titles. He continues to write about the games industry for publications such as Edge.

Daniel Kilvington is Associate Lecturer in Media at the University of Sunderland, UK. His recent PhD analysed the reasons for the lack of Asian professional footballers playing in the UK today.

John Price is Senior Lecturer and programme leader for BA (hons) Sports Journalism at the University of Sunderland, UK. He is a former regional newspaper journalist.

Amir Saeed is an online tutor at the University of Leicester, UK and was until recently the Programme Leader of BA (Hons) Media, Culture and Communication at the University of Sunderland, UK. His research interests are in ‘race’, racism and Islamophobia.

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