Tag: Britt-Marie Ringfjord
You are not alone! Playing it forward – from a desert island to talk publicly about mental health
Head Game: Mental Health in Sports Media by Andrew C. Billings & Scott Parrott (Peter Lang Publishing) uses interviews with key athletes, leading journalists and sportscasters, and organizational and league leaders to show how media has been used—and could be used in the future—to advance greater understanding of mental health. Our reviewer is Britt-Marie Ringfjord. After a careful and critical reading she commends the authors’ timely study of a sensitive and difficult subject that sport media will have to find new ways to deal with.
The impact of Covid-19 on sport – challenges, changes and lessons learned
Andrew C. Billings, Lawrence A, Wenner & Marie Hardin’s edited collection American Sport in the Shadow of a Pandemic: Communicative Insights (Peter Lang Publishing) focuses on how communication practices, structures, and principles change when a key locus – sport – has much of its cultural and political-economic power disrupted. Britt-Marie Ringfjord’s review offers an accessible presentation of all the contributions. She found the book to be instructive and interesting as well as entertaining.
Women at the periphery of the US sports media industry
Women sportscasters are still subjected to gendered and racialized mistreatment in the workplace and online. In On the Sidelines: Gendered Neoliberalism and the Female Sportscaster (University of Nebraska Press), Guy Harrison argues that gendered neoliberalism—a cluster of exclusionary twenty-first-century feminisms—maintains this status quo. Our reviewer Britt-Marie Ringfjord finds theories and empirical material useful for teaching gender in sport media and journalism to university students.
Practical guide to the nuts and bolts of communication in sport management
A classic textbook on sport and media has been updated. Britt-Marie Ringfjord has read the 5th edition of Media Relations in Sport by Craig Esherick, Philip H. Caskey and Brad Schultz (FiT Publishing), that takes into account the intersection and trajectory of emerging technologies, platforms and trends with foundational principles of communication. Our reviewer offers a thorough presentation of the various chapters, and concludes that the update keeps the content well up to speed.
The politics of masculine ideals in American football
American football represents traditional masculinity ideals, but has of late also been criticized for racism as well as high rates of brain injuries. Read more about this in Thomas P. Oates’ Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL (University of Illinois Press). Our reviewer Britt-Marie Ringfjord finds much to like about Oates’ thorough account of the gridiron.
