Handbook of sports and media

This Handbook covers the breadth of sports and media scholarship, one of the up-and-coming topics bridging media entertainment, sports management, and popular culture. Organized into historical, institutional, spectator, and critical studies perspectives, this text brings together the work of various disciplines into one quintessential volume, defining the scope of the subject area.

Divided into parts, the volume discusses: The Development of Sports Media; The Coverage and Business of Sports Media; Sports Media Audiences; and Critical Perspectives on Sports Media: Cases and Issues. "The Handbook of Sports and Media" is of great significance to scholars, researchers, and graduate students in the areas of media entertainment, media psychology, mass media/mass communication, sports marketing and management, popular communication, popular culture, as well as cultural studies.