Sport, Media, Culture : Global and Local Dimensions

✍ Scribed by Alina BERNSTEIN; Neil Blain

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 272
Series: Sport in the Global Society Ser.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

An examination of the central features of the sport-media phenomenon, focusing on Europe and the USA. The book analyses such issues as new media technology; gender, ethnicity and local dimensions of collective identity; women in American basketball advertising; and cult football radio in Scotland.

✦ Subjects

Mass media and sports; NON000000; NON000000; SPO000000

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