Tag: Guy Harrison

JSSI brings you the latest research, discussion and analysis on contemporary sport issues. In JSSI scholars study the impact of sport on social issues from many perspectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Let the Kids Play: Latino Players, Differing Play Styles and Racial Stigma in Major League Baseball by Andrew Mitchel, Jeffrey H. Cohen.

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Breaking the Silence: Examining the Role of Parent Involvement and Concussion Knowledge on Sports-Related Concussion Conversations by Daniel E. Hartman and Brian L. Quick.

SSJ publishes original research, framed by social theory, on exercise, sport, physical culture, and the (physically active) body. The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical, theoretical, and position papers; book reviews; and critical essays. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “Just Existing Is Activism”: Transgender Experiences in Martial Arts by Anna Kavoura, Alex Channon, Marja Kokkonen.

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.

The mission of IJSC is to provide a platform for academics and practitioners to disseminate research and information from diverse fields such as critical studies, sport management, advertising, communication policy, history, media studies, psychology, telecommunications, cultural studies, sport marketing, international communication, gender studies, journalism, public relations, communication theory, and new media.