Tag: Scott Parrott

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.

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.

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.

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: #VEGASSTRONG: SPORT, PUBLIC MEMORIALIZATION, AND THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS by Benjamin Burroughs, Adam Rugg, David Becker, and Madeline Edgmon.