Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Gaming Sports

Name: Gaming Sports
SKU: 9781978849297
Price: 305 SEK
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Author: Jason Kido Lopez
ISBN: 9781978849297

Gambling and the Sports Media Complex

Av Jason Kido Lopez

Del i serien Screening Sports

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Gaming Sports: Gambling and the Sports Media Complex examines games that are based on sports—like horse race and sports betting, fantasy sports, and March Madness brackets—and explores their relationship to sports and sports media. It seeks to improve common ways of understanding these games and to correct prevalent misconceptions. For example, gaming is often seen to be a supplementary add-on that is essentially corruptive to sports and sports fandom. Gaming Sports challenges this view and explores how gaming and gambling have always been part of commercialized sports leagues, sports media, and sports cultures. Indeed, gaming has an underexplored role in explaining why certain sports rose to popularity, how sports leagues are organized, the way sports media covers sports, and how fans engage with sports. Gaming Sports tracks the development American sports-based games from colonization to the present to argue that gaming and sports have always influenced and been built upon each other.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2027-01-12
Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt: 453 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Screening Sports
Antal sidor: 156
Förlag: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9781978849297

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Jason Kido Lopez is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Redefining Sports Media and Self-Deception's Puzzles and Processes: A Return to a Sartrean View.

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"Gaming Sports provides a long-awaited analysis and contextualization of the sports gambling pandemic. It valuably explains the long relationship between sports, gambling, and media while providing a critical vocabulary that will help readers understand this important phenomenon." - Travis Vogan, author of ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire"Sports have never only been about the games on the field. They are vehicles for the games layered on top of them—from college basketball brackets to fantasy teams to betting markets. Gaming Sports shows that these second-order activities are integral for leagues, media companies, fans, and sports themselves." - Jonathan D. Cohen, author of Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling

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