Communication in the Community of Sport: The Process of Enacting, (Re)Producing, Consuming, and Organizing Sport

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Black Masculinity in NBA Game Commentary

“…Commentary makes the audience part of the experience because the commentators are talking directly to them in real time. Live commentary provides more opportunity for unscripted discussion that might not take place in other media texts that are subject to edits and rewrites (Kassing et al, 2004). Certainly, there is some element of script because there is an army of researchers, producers, and directors, which provide some guidance for commentary discussion as the game unfolds.…”

“…Certainly, there is some element of script because there is an army of researchers, producers, and directors, which provide some guidance for commentary discussion as the game unfolds. But the commentators are responsible for narrating the sporting event (Kassing et al, 2004;Olsen, 1998). They sometimes have to talk for 5-10 minutes without commercial interruption during the broadcasts.…”

“…The media, through its presentation of preferred readings, reinforces this rhetorical vision'' (p. 167). Sports texts help reinforce stereotypes in a given society (Kassing et al, 2004). Sports commentary is a critical artifact to examine because it is considered more real than other scripted media texts, such as television stories or newspapers (Billings, 2008).…”

Youth Agency, Sport, and the Public Sphere in Kenya

“…Second, sports serve the function of co-producing communities because they can facilitate the creation of feelings of belongingness and connectedness among participants, thus lessening social distance between people. Sports often unite wider sections of the population by transcending differences of nationality, sex, age, social positioning, geographical location, and political attitudes (Kassing et al 2004).…”

Sport und Medien. Bestandsaufnahme des Forschungsfeldes

“…as Forschungsfeld "Sport und Medien" ist mittlerweile nicht nur sehr vielfältig untersucht worden, sondern es liegen auch vergleichsweise viele Überblicksarbei-ten vor, deren Ziel es ist, dieses Forschungsfeld zu strukturieren (etwa : Wenner 1989;Wenner 1998;Gleich 2000;Kassing et al 2004;Stiehler 2007;Gantz 2011;Haynes 2016). Für (Sport-) Kommunikationswissenschaftler_innen ist das insofern dankbar, weil in solchen Arbeiten auch eine Reihe von Fragen aufgelistet werden, die sich als Anregung und Ausgangspunkt für weitere Forschungen nutzen lassen.…”