This book examines the political debates over the access to live telecasts of sport in the digital broadcasting era. It outlines the broad theoretical debates, political positions and policy calculations over the provision of live, free-to-air telecasts of sport as a right of cultural citizenship. In so doing, the book provides a number of comparative case studies that explore these debates and issues in various global spaces.
Using a range of national case studies from Europe and beyond, this book analyses the political, economic, social and regulatory issues raised in relation to the buying and selling of television sports rights.
Sports' connection to citizenship arose late in the nineteenth century at a time when the nation was plagued by fears over the feminizing of men.15 As Michael S. Kimmel notes, sports were seen as a way for the nation to respond to its ...
Writing from a variety of perspectives, the contributors to this collection set out to explore the impact of the media on our reception of, and attitudes toward, sports—to unpack the meanings that sports have for us as citizens and ...
Public Space in the World-Class City , Toronto : UniHarvey , D. ( 2003 ) The New Imperialism , Oxford : Oxford University Press . versity of ... McLaren , P. ( 2008 ) “ This fist called my heart: Pedagogy in the belly of the beast .
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The contributors to this volume take a sociological approach to discussing women in sports by questioning dominant assumptions surrounding notions of women's biological athletic inferiority and by examining other social constructs that ...
Defensive end Erasmus James stated in an interview with Silberman that members of his team play Madden together regularly, explaining that 'how your player is and how you play in Madden is a bragging right' (Silberman 2009, p. 174).
On the other hand, the politico-economic dynamics of international rugby render formal national allegiance a highly consequential act, ... Frank, 'Development of Underdevelopment'; Wallerstein, Introduction to World-Systems Analysis.
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Sports. Events,. Society. and. Culture. This innovative and timely volume moves beyond existing operational and pragmatic approaches to events studies by exploring sports events as social, cultural, political and mediatised phenomena.