Power Play: Sport, the Media and Popular Culture - Hardcover

Raymond Boyle; Richard Haynes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748635920 ISBN 13: 9780748635924

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Power Play A new study of the link between three key obsessions of the 20th century: the media, sport and popular culture. Full description

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Synopsis:

Praise for the first edition: 'An excellent book that tries to come to grips with the ever-increasing role of sport in the media as a particular phenomenon of 20th-century popular culture.' European Journal of Communication (2000) 'Excellent, well written and informative! of interest and use to a wider constituency.' Times Higher Education Supplement (May 2000) Since its first publication in 2000 Power Play has become a key text in the burgeoning study of media sport. Charting the development of the relationship between sport and the media, the book examines the way in which the media has increasingly come to dominate how sport is played, organized, represented and thought about in society. This fully revised and updated edition reviews recent developments in the interdisciplinary field of media sport studies. It also provides new analysis of the global sports media marketplace taking into consideration the rapid changes in the media coverage of sport brought by the internet and new digital media platforms.Written by two experienced and internationally renowned researchers in the field, the book provides an important revision of our understanding of media sport in the 21st century.

About the Author:

Raymond Boyle is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Culture Policy Research at the University of Glasgow. He is author of Sports Journalism: Context and Issues (2006) and co-author with Richard Haynes of Football in the New Media Age (2004) and with Neil Blain and Hugh O'Donnell of Sport and National Identity in the European Media (1993). He has published widely on sport, media and journalism and sits on the editorial Board of the journal Media, Culture and Society. Richard Haynes is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Stirling Media Research Institute, university of Stirling. He is author of Media Rights and Intellectual Property (2005) and co-author with Raymond Boyle of Football in the New Media Age (2004) and The Football Imagination: The Rise of Football Fanzine Culture (1995). He has published widely on media and sport, and has received research awards from the Carnegie Trust, the AHRC and the British Academy in his research on the history of sports broadcasting.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0748635920
• ISBN 13: 9780748635924
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224