Sports Media

Investigates the social uses and cultural meanings of sport and sports media, which are integral components of global media industries, from the production of spectacles to sport-related videogaming and e-sports, from the cultivation of brand identities to the formation of fan cultures. As sports are increasingly experienced through media -- even when fans attend a game in-person they are often surrounded by video screens within the stadium -- this course explores how, rather than merely showing us sporting events, media actively creates many of the values, beliefs, feelings, and problems that we associate with sports, including contests over the meanings of race, class, gender, and sexuality.

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