Table of Contents: Defining Sport Communication Introduction. Andrew C. Billings, University of Alabama Unit I. Humanistic Approaches to Sport Chapter 1. Sport as rhetorical artifact (Michael L. Butterworth, Ohio University) Chapter 2. Sport as critical/cultural studies (Daniel A. Grano, University of North Carolina-Charlotte) Chapter 3.
Sports and the communication of ethics (Lawrence A. Wenner, Loyola Marymount University) Chapter 4. Sport and ethnography: An embodied practice meets an embodied method (Robert Krizek, St. Louis University) Chapter 5. Sport and political communication/Political communication and sport: Taking the flame (Davis W. Houck, Florida State University) Chapter 6. Sport as gender/feminist studies (Lindsey J. Me'n, Arizona State University) Chapter 7.
Sport and race: A disciplinary history and exhortation (Abraham I. Khan, Pennsylvania State University) Chapter 8. Sport and GLBTQ issues (Edward M. Kian, Oklahoma State University) Unit II. Organizational/Relational Approaches to Sport Chapter 9. Sport as organizational communication (Jeffrey W. Kassing, Arizona State University & Robyn Matthews, Arizona State University) Chapter 10. Sport as intergroup communication: Fans, rivalries, communities, and nations (Howard Giles, Univ.
of California-Santa Barbara & Michael Stohl, Univ. of California-Santa Barbara) Chapter 11. Sport as interpersonal communication (Paul D. Turman, South Dakota Board of Regents) Chapter 12. Sport as family communication (Jon F. Nussbaum and Amber Worthington, Penn State University) Chapter 13. Sport as health communication: Intersections, theories, implications (Kimberly L. Bissell, University of Alabama) Unit III.
Mediated Approaches to Sport Chapter 14. Sport as international communication (Simon LiÄen, Washington State University) Chapter 15. Sport as journalistic lens (Steve Bien-Aime, Pennsylvania State University, Erin Whiteside, University of Tennessee, & Marie Hardin, Penn State University) Chapter 16. Sport as audience studies (Walter Gantz, Indiana University & Nicole Lewis, University of Miami) Chapter 17. Sport as entertainment studies (Arthur A. Raney, Florida State University) Chapter 18. Sport as broadcast studies (R. Glenn Cummins, Texas Tech University) Chapter 19.
Sport as social media networking studies (Jimmy Sanderson, University of Arkansas) Chapter 20. Sport as gaming studies: Videogames as an arena for sport communication scholarship (Nicholas D. Bowman, West Virginia University & Andy Boyan, Albion College) Chapter 21. Sport and advertising (Michael B. Devlin, DePaul University) Chapter 22. Sport and public relations (Kenon A. Brown, University of Alabama & Thomas E. Isaacson, Northern Michigan University).