Table of Contents

Topics addressed:

• Reflections and Suggestions for Scholarship on Sports and Media (Walter Gantz, Indiana University, USA)

• Why Sports Fit Television So Well (Michael Real, Royal Roads University, Canada)
• Radical Pluralist Feminism and Technologies of the Self in the Sports Blogosphere (Marie Hardin, Pennsylvania State University, USA)

• Sports Dirt, Fanship Identity, and Commercial Narratives (Lawrence A. Wenner, Loyola Marymount University, USA)

• Exploring the Relationship between Media Sports and Viewer Morality (Arthur A. Raney, Florida State University, USA)

• Sports Media: Beyond Broadcasting, Beyond Sports, Beyond Societies? (David Rowe, University of Western Sydney, Australia)

• Tweets and Blogs: Transformative, Adversarial, and Integrative Developments in Sports Media (Jimmy Sanderson, Arizona State University, USA and Jeffrey W. Kassing, Arizona State University, USA)

• The Nature of Fan Emotion, Cognition, and Behavior in Internet Sports Communities (Lance Porter, Louisiana State University, USA; Chris Wood, JWA Communications, USA, and Vince Benigni, College of Charleston, USA)
• An Initial Study of Gender Coverage in Sports on Twitter (Lauren Reichart Smith, Auburn University, USA)

• Sport, Identities, and Consumption: The Construction of Sport at ESPN.com (Lindsey J. Meân, Arizona State University, USA)
• Assessing the Record and Advancing a Future of Sports Media Scholarship (Andrew C. Billings, Clemson University, USA)

• Appendix: Contributions to Sports Media Scholarship: A Comprehensive Reference List

About the Author

Andrew C. Billings (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1999) studies sports communication and mass media, particularly focusing on the portrayal of identity within televised sport. He has received several teaching awards for his work in the classroom. His scholarship has been published in areas as diverse as Journal of Communication, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and Mass Communication and Society and he has won over a dozen top paper awards from conferences for the National Communication Association, Broadcast Education Association, and Southern States Communication Association. He has published over 40 refereed journal articles and book chapters and delivered over 60 research presentations in national and international forums.