NOTE: New syllabus and reading list details for Spring 2010 semester will be posted soon. The information below should be used for historical reference purposes only - course readings and themes are likely to change.
***************** Weekly Topics and Reading Schedule: Final Version
Part 1: Historical and Theoretical Background
Week 1 (Jan. 5) Lecture Cancelled Due to Snowstorm. No tutorials this week.
Week 2 (Jan. 12) Media and the Making of Modern Sport: Field Study
*****No Lecture - Mini Field Study. Tutorials will proceed as scheduled******- Chapter 2 - "Sport as Entertainment: The Role of Mass Communications"
by John Goldlust, pp.27-47 in Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and the
Media.
- Richard P. Cavanagh (1992). “The Development of Canadian Sports Broadcasting 1920-78.” Canadian Journal of Communication 17(3). [URL: http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/677/583 or Download]
Week 3 (Jan. 19) Media and the Making of Modern Sport: Theoretical and Historical Background
****Mini Field Study Report Due in Lecture******Part 2: Political Economy of Sports Media
Week 4 (Jan. 26) Sports as Commodity: Promotional Culture and Corporate Synergies- Chapter 4 - "The Dream Team, Communicative Dirt, and Marketing Synergy:
USA Basketball and Cross-Merchandising in Television Commercials" by
Lawrence A. Wenner, pp.70-83 in Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and
the Media [Download].
- Richard Gruneau & David Whitson (2001) “Upmarket Continentalism:
Major League Sport, Promotional Culture and Corporate Integration,” pp.
235-264 in D. Schiller and V. Mosco (eds) Continental Order?:
Integrating North America for CyberCapitalism. [Download]
Week 5 (Feb. 2) The Sports Factory: Child Athletes, Play and Labour- Dyck, Noel (2003) "Embodying Success: Identity and
Performance in Children’s Sport." In Noel Dyck and Eduardo P. Archetti (eds.) Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities: Oxford & New York: Berg, pp. 55-73. [Available Online via SFU Library and via Download]
- Christopher C. Grenfell and Robert E. Rinehart (2003) “Skating on Thin
Ice: Human Rights in Youth Figure Skating.” International Review for
the Sociology of Sport 38(1), pp. 79–97. [Download]
Week 6 (Feb. 9) Sports Production and Over-Production: Transnational Flows, International Development - Chapter 7 - "Sports Page: A Case Study in the Manufacture of Sports News for the Daily Press" by Mark Douglas Lowes, pp. 129-145 in Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and the Media. [Download]
- Chapter 8 - "Bread, Butter and Gravy: An Institutional Approach to
Televised Sport Production" by Michael Silk, Trevor Slack and John
Amis, pp. 146-164 in Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and the Media. [Download]
- Toby Miller, David Rowe, Jim McKay and Geoffrey Lawrence (2003) "The Over-Production of US Sports and the New International Division of Cultural Labor", International Review for the Sociology of Sport 38(4), pp.427-440. [Download]
***Take-Home Mid-Term (on Weeks 2-6) Distributed in Class
Week 7 (Feb. 16) Reading Week: No Lectures, No Tutorials
Part 3: Media, sports and identity politics Week 8 (Feb.23) Sports, National Identity and Globalization- Chapter 10 – “Local Visions of the Global: Some Perspectives From
Around the World” by Miguel de Moragas Spa, Nancy K. Rivenburgh and
James F. Larson, pp.186-209 in Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and
the Media.
- Brian Wilson (2006) "Selective Memory in a Global Culture: Reconsidering Links Between Youth, Hockey, and Canadian Identity" pp.53-70 in David Whitson and Richard Gruneau (eds) Artificial Ice: Hockey, Culture and Commerce. Peterborough, ON: Garamond Press. [Download]
***Take Home Mid-Term (on Weeks 2-6) Exams Due
Week 9 (Mar. 2) Lifestyle Sports and Subcultures: From Tony Hawk to LuLuLemon- Belinda Wheaton and Becky Beal (2003) “’Keeping It Real’: Subcultural
Media and the Discourses of Authenticity in Alternative Sport.”
International Review for the Sociology of Sport 38(2), pp. 155-176.
[Download]
- Holly Thorpe (2004) “Snowboarding Bodies: Dressing For Distinction.”
Junctures: A Journal of Thematic Dialogue (3), pp. 31-42. [Download]
Week 10 (Mar. 9 ) Media, Sport and the Politics of Identities: Race and Ethnicity- David Brown, George Jennings and Aspasia Leledaki (2008) “The Changing
Charismatic Status of the Performing Male Body in Asian Martial Arts
Films." Sport in Society 11(2), pp.174 – 194. [Download]
- King, C. Richard (2006) "On Being a Warrior: Race, Gender and American
Indian Imagery in Sport." International Journal of the History of Sport
23(2), pp. 315 – 330. [Download]
Week 11 (Mar. 16) Media, Sport and the Politics of Identities: Gender- Chapter 12 - "The Televised Sports Manhood Formula" by Michael Messner, Michele Dunbar and Darnell Hunt, pp.227-245 in Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and the Media.
- Holly Thorpe (2008) “Foucault, Technologies of Self, and the Media: Discourses of Femininity in Snowboarding Culture.” Journal of Sport & Social Issues 32(2), pp.199-229. [Download]
Part 4: Sporting Spectacles, Spectators, TechnologiesWeek 12 (Mar. 23) The Sporting Spectacle: Violence, Parody, Drama- Maarten van Bottenburg and Johan Heilbron (2006) “De-Sportization of
Fighting Contests: The Origins and Dynamics of No Holds Barred Events
and the Theory of Sportization.” International Review for the Sociology
of Sport 41(3-4), pp. 259–282. [Download]
- Emma Poulton (2005) "English Media Representation of Football-related
Disorder: 'Brutal, Short-hand and Simplifying?" Sport in Society 8(1),
pp.27-47. [Download]
Week 13 (Mar.30) Sports and Media Technologies: Performance and Spectatorship- Daskalaki, Maria, Stara, Alexandra and Imas, Miguel(2008) 'The 'Parkour Organisation': Inhabitation of Corporate
Spaces', Culture and Organization 14(1), pp.49-64. [Download] - Fuller, Johann, Jawecki, Gregor and Muhlbacher, Hans (2007) "Innovation creation by online basketball communities." Journal of Business Research 60(1), pp.60-71. [Download]
Week 14 (Apr. 6) Digital Games: CyberSports, FantasySports and ExerGaming
- Hutchins, Brett (2008) "Signs of meta-change in second modernity: the growth of e-sport and the World Cyber Games." New Media & Society 10(6), pp. 851-869. [Download]
- Erica Rosenfeld Halverson and Richard Halverson (2008) "Fantasy Baseball: The Case for Competitive Fandom." Games and Culture 3(3-4), pp.286-308. [Download]
***Last Day of Class: Term Paper Due
***Final Exam to be Distributed in Lecture. Due April 16, must be date-stamped and handed in at the School of Communication General Office.
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