Sports Events, Society and Culture
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780415826754
Subjects: Sports, social aspects; Sports, psychological aspects; Mass media and sports
Description: "This innovative volume moves beyond existing operational approaches to events studies by exploring sports events as social, cultural, political, and mediatised phenomena. The core themes of consumption, media technologies, representation, identities and culture are discussed to offer new insight into how sports events contribute to generation of individual and shared meaning over personal, community and national identities as well as the issues of conflict and power associated with these. The book takes a multi-disciplinary approach with contributions from areas including sports studies, media studies, sociology, cultural studies, communications, politics, tourism and gender studies"--