Sport and the Media Books

New and Published Books

1. Digital Media Sport

   Technology, Power and Culture in the Network Society

   Edited by Brett Hutchins, David Rowe

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Live broadband streaming of the 2008 Beijing Olympics accounted for 2,200 of the estimated 3,600 total hours shown by the American NBC-Universal networks. At the 2012 London Olympics, unprecedented multi-platforming embraced online, mobile devices, game consoles and broadcast television, with the...

   Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships

   The European Spectacle

   Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter, Georg Spitaler

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Over the past decade, European football has seen tremendous changes impacting upon its international framework as well as local traditions and national institutions. Processes of Europeanization in the fields of economy and politics provided the background for transformations of the production and...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe

   States, media and markets 1950-2010

   Edited by Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young, Richard Holt

   Series: CRESC

   In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globalization. In this fascinating, inter-disciplinary study, leading international scholars explore the making of modern sport in Europe, illuminating sport...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Watching Sport

   Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion

   By Stephen Mumford

   Series: Ethics and Sport

   Do we watch sport for pure dumb entertainment? While some people might do so, Stephen Mumford argues that it can be watched in other ways. Sport can be both a subject of high aesthetic values and a valid source for our moral education. The philosophy of sport has tended to focus on participation,...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. Sport and Film

   By Seán Crosson

   Series: Frontiers of Sport

   The sports film has become one of commercial cinema's most recognizable genres. From classic boxing films such as Raging Bull (1980) to soccer-themed box-office successes like Bend it Like Beckham (2002), the sports film stands at the interface of two of our most important cultural forms. This book...

   Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
6. Managing Sport Organizations

   Responsibility for Performance

   By Daniel Covell, Sharianne Walker

   Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Managing Sports Organizations is still the most interesting, challenging, and student-focused introduction to sport management currently available. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book explores every key topic, issue and concept...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
7. Global Perspectives on Football in Africa

   Visualising the Game

   Edited by Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher, Ciraj Rassool

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artefacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
8. Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication

   Edited by Paul M. Pedersen

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication is the only book to offer a fully comprehensive and in-depth survey of the contemporary discipline of sport communication. It explores communication within, through, and for sport in all its theoretical, conceptual, cultural, behavioral, practical and...

   Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Olympics, Media and Society

   Edited by Kim Bissell, Stephen Perry

   When the general public follow the Olympic Games on television, on the internet, even in the newspapers, they feel like they have themselves experienced the performances of the athletes. This book explores whether it is ever possible to experience the Olympic Games as an athletic event without...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
10. Twenty20 and the Future of Cricket

    Edited by Chris Rumford

    Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

    Cricket is a sport which is currently undergoing a rapid and dramatic transformation. Traditionally thought of as an English summer game, limited in appeal to Britain and its Commonwealth, cricket has, in the past a few years, achieved a global profile. This is largely due to the development of a...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge