Not Playing Around

Andrew M. Colombo-Dougovito; Tracy Everbach; Karen Weiller-Abels

doi:10.5771/9781793654687

Summary

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title

This book provides an accessible space for interdisciplinary scholarship and narrative through an analysis of the power of media and sports, focusing on the intersectionality of identity, politics, social justice, and social movements within this context. Contributors examine how identities coalesce in sports and discuss the ways in which sports provide spaces for marginalized communities and create unique platforms that shift how society defines identity. Athletes’ identities and actions—and mass media’s representation thereof—can influence both the perceptions of society as a whole and how individuals view themselves, contributors argue. Each chapter delves into how different aspects of identity, including race, gender, disability, and sexuality, have developed and influenced social change, with a strong focus on lived experiences of both scholars and athletes from marginalized communities. Scholars of media studies, communication, sociology, and kinesiology may find this book particularly useful.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5467-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5468-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 328
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Politics and Sport: The Venn Diagram Is a Circle No access
2. Through the Looking Glass: Media as a Mirror of Society No access
3. A Need to Explore Our Interconnectedness No access
4. Our Praxis No access
5. What This Collection Is (and Isn’t) No access
6. Let Us Begin No access
7. References No access
1. 1. The Value of Athlete Voices No access
  2. Leave Your Constitutional Rights in the Locker Room? No access
  3. “Prior Restraints” and the First Amendment No access
  4. Degrees of Censorship: The First Amendment on Campus No access
  5. A Path Forward: Unchaining Athlete Voices No access
  6. References No access
2. 1. Tautological Definitions and Contextual Being in the Rules of the NFL No access
  2. The Flatness of the Rulebook’s Ontology No access
  3. Touch, Ontography, and Disinterested Discernment in Flat Ontologies No access
  4. The Terms and Conditions of Object Agency, in the Rulebook and Beyond No access
  5. Conclusion: Political Declarations in Football’s Flat Ontology No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
3. 1. Katie Sowers’s Story No access
  2. Coverage of Women’s Sports and of Lesbian Athletes No access
  3. Journalism Routines No access
  4. Framing as a Routine of Journalism No access
  5. Research Questions and Analysis No access
  6. Time and Space Frame Findings No access
  7. Conclusion: Progress But Not Parity No access
  8. References No access
4. 1. LGBTQ+ Recreation and Leisure No access
  2. Competencies for Recreation Managers: Serving Queer Populations in Mainstream Recreation No access
  3. LGBTQ+-Specific Recreational Sports No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. References No access
5. 1. Defining “Ability”: Disablism within Sport No access
  2. A Critical Disability Lens No access
  3. A Thematic Meta-Synthesis No access
  4. Findings: “Houston, We Have a Problem” No access
  5. Conclusion: We All Have Responsibility No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
1. 1. Black Women Athletes and Activism No access
  2. Black Feminist Thought and Intersectionality No access
  3. Lesbian Athletes, Activism, and Queer Theory No access
  4. Women’s Sports as Secondary to Men’s No access
  5. WNBA Athletes and Social Media Activism No access
  6. WNBA Athletes: Making History, Making Progress No access
  7. References No access
2. 1. Perspectives on Sports and Race No access
  2. Discourse Analysis of Videos No access
  3. Social Media Analysis No access
  4. Social Media Engagement No access
  5. NBA Players Key to Social Justice Discussions No access
  6. References No access
3. 1. Celebrity Athlete Influence No access
  2. Responding to Athlete Activism No access
  3. Exploring Audience Responses During 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests No access
  4. Athlete Celebrities and Anti-Racism Activism No access
  5. References No access
1. 1. Positionality, Reflexivity, and Theoretical Framework No access
  2. Sports and the Construction of Gender No access
  3. Media Representation and Discourse of Transgender People No access
  4. Methodology No access
  5. News Coverage of Transgender Bans No access
  6. New Wave of (Un)Fairness and Exclusion No access
  7. References No access
2. 1. Friday Night Prime Time No access
  2. Authentic Experience No access
  3. Beyond School Translation No access
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3. 1. Migratory Phenomena and the School System No access
  2. School and Double Belonging No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
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4. 1. Media and Paralympic Games Research No access
  2. Method No access
  3. Paralympic Narratives No access
  4. Evolution of Paralympic Sports Journalism in Latin America No access
  5. Conclusion and Discussion No access
  6. Note No access
  7. References No access
1. References No access
1. Organizations No access
2. Books and Other Writing No access
3. Media No access
4. Guides No access
Index No access Pages 311 - 318
1. Editors No access
2. Contributors (Alphabetically) No access