Mediated Football: Representations and Audience Receptions of Race/Ethnicity, Nation and Gender

ISBN-13: 9781138305410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 196 str.

Jacco Van Sterkenburg; Ramon Spaaij

Opis

This book analyzes contemporary media representations and the ways in which they are interpreted and used by football media audiences. It was originally published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

Spis treści

1. Introduction – Mediated football: Representations and audience receptions of race/ethnicity, gender and nation  Part I: Representations  2. Football and the ‘new’ gender order: Brazilian cinema in the late 20^th century  3. The coming of age of women’s football in the Dutch sports media, 1995-2013  4. Sportswomen in the German popular press: A study carried out in the context of the 2011 Women’s Football World Cup  5. The eternal talent, the French Senegalese, and the coach’s troop: Broadcasting soccer on Slovenian public television  6. Myths of nation in the Champions League  Part II: Audience receptions  7. The mediated nation and the transnational football fan  8. As Kiwi as? Contestation over the place of men’s football in New Zealand culture  9. Fragments of us, fragments of them: Social media, nationality, and U.S. perceptions of the 2014 FIFA World Cup  10. Do they even know the national anthem? Minorities in service of the flag – Israeli Arabs in the national football team  11. Reading Ronaldo: Contingent whiteness in the football media

O autorze

Jacco van Sterkenburg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media & Communication and the Erasmus Research Centre for Media Communication and Culture, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is also Visiting Research Fellow at the Mulier Institute in The Netherlands.

Ramón Spaaij is Associate Professor in the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living and the Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. He is also Special Chair of Sociology of Sport at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Visiting Professor in the School of Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.