Tag: Nida Ahmad
Mostly successful collection on how social media and digital communication technologies impact sports in various ways
Jimmy Sanderson’s Sport, Social Media, and Digital Technology: Sociological Approaches (Emerald Publications) brings together a collection of essays from leading global scholars to illustrate how sociological approaches are imperative to enhancing our understanding of sport and social media and digital technology. A collective of sport sociologists at Nord University, Norway has read the book as a book group, bringing many various experiences and perspectives into a rich review highlighting the book’s strong points as well as its weaknesses.
Sociology of Sport Journal, Volume 39, 2022, Issue 2
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.
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, Volume 12, 2020, Issue 4
The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: QUESTIONING REPRESENTATIONS OF ATHLETES WITH ELEVATED TESTOSTERONE LEVELS IN ELITE WOMEN’S SPORTS: A CRITICAL POLICY ANALYSIS by Annette Brömdal, Rebecca Olive & Brooke Walker
Communication & Sport, Vol. 8, 2020, No. 4–5 | Sport Communication and Social Justice
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: UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE KNEEL: EXAMINING PERCEPTIONS OF THE NFL ANTHEM PROTEST ON ORGANIZATIONAL REPUTATION by Shaun M. Anderson.
The role of sport in society – in different contexts and at different levels
In an edited volume by Danyel Reiche & Tamir Sorek, Sport. Politics, and Society in the Middle East (Hurst Publishers), ten contributors in as many chapters discuss the intersection of political and cultural processes related to sport in the region. Dan-Erik Andersson is pleased to find a book that shares his views on the role of sport in society, although he would have liked to see a commonality in the contributions beyond geographic locality.
