Tag: Kirsten Frandsen

Bringing together leading experts and a mix of young and senior scholars from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, Women in a Digitized Sports Culture: Nordic Perspectives (Routledge) presents new empirical research and critical theoretical perspectives at the intersection of gender, sports, media and technology. Our reviewer is Angela Stănescu, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and she finds that the collection is an important academic contribution to sports and media scholarships, suitable for researchers and students who want better to understand gender inequalities in sports.

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: Mediatization and Doping: Investigating the Interplay in News Framing of Rider/Doping Suspicion During the Tour de France by Leah Stanley.

Lawrence A. Wenner and Andrew C. Billings have gathered leading scholars in the field of sport media studies for their edited volume Sport, Media and Mega-Events (Routledge), in which each contribution takes stock of a mega-event in terms of the level of mediatization. Henk Erik Meier is our knowledgeable reviewer, and he’s impressed.

Marit Stub Nybelius recenserar Kirsten Frandsens studie om dansk TV-sport publicerad i Fascination og forretning i dansk tv-sport (Aarhus Universitetsforlag) 2013. Här skildras på ett bra sätt dansk sport-TV historiskt och idag, och morgondagens utmaningar diskuteras.