Description
Book SynopsisStories of Sports: Critical Literacy in Media Production, Consumption, and Dissemination discusses how media demonstrates privilege, policing, stereotypes, confirmation bias, and objectification in a world where the role of athletics in Western society speaks to privilege and power. Contributors use a critical media lens to analyze texts, including newspapers, magazines, film, television, social media, and sportscasts to demonstrate to readers the ways in which sports stories reinforce or disrupt patterns of power and the ways that power is enacted. This book questions the role of the sports-industrial complex in our society and argues that, while healthy competition and physical health can come from bodily exertion, corruption can contaminate these benefits with the wielding of influence and the acquisition of cultural and financial capital. Contributors examine how the ways that resources are allocated, the coverage of certain sports and athletes, and how viewers view competitive arenas speak to power and privilege in ways that can affect both athletes and athletic stakeholders, highlighting the importance of critically examining sports media. Scholars of media studies and sports will find this book particularly useful.
Table of ContentsForeword
Andraya N. Carter
Introduction
Katie Dredger, Crystal L. Beach, Katherin Garland, and Cathy Leogrande
Chapter 1: Using Critical Media Literacy Pedagogy to Analyze Colin Kaepernick’s Athletic Activism
Katherin Garland
Chapter 2: Selling Patriotism On and Off the Field: Media Connections Between Baseball, the Military, and the Government
Brian Sheehy
Chapter 3: Relationships Between Youth-Sports Coaches and Athletes: Messages from the “Best” Sports-Related Films
Luke Rodesiler, Mark A. Lewis, and Alan Brown
Chapter 4: Truth Be Told: The Mutual Responsibilities of Artists and Consumers
Mark A. Fabrizi
Chapter 5: Telling the Story of Youth, Sports, and Disability in Friday Night Lights
Ewa McGrail, J. Patrick McGrail, and Alicja Rieger
Chapter 6: Transforming Diabetes Stigma: The Role of Counternarrative in Sports Media
Cynthia Martin
Chapter 7: Languaging Actions in Sports Media and Students’ Writing About Sports
Richard Beach and Limarys Caraballo
Chapter 8: Performance, Style, and Substance: The Female Athlete
Crystal L. Beach and Katie Dredger
Chapter 9: Booth, Sidelines or Studio: How Place Defines Women Sports Broadcasters on Television
Cathy Leogrande
About the Contributors
