The Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio

• Main Author: Kerr, Robert L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Sports-Sociological aspects.; Cultural studies.; Mass media.; Communication.; Sociology.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.; Cultural Studies.; Media Sociology.; Gender Studies.
• Physical Description: VII, 99 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319672533
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67253-3

This book provides a descriptive analysis of the social interaction transpiring in what the author has conceptualized as the "the hyper-mediated marketplace of sports narratives." It examines the social structures and processes that make sports-talk radio such a vibrant societal milieu, and seeks to identify the essential sociological dynamics that make all that endless chatter so vital to listeners. A qualitative, descriptive analytical focus on this remarkable platform-where people come together to interact insistently, colorfully, and often with stunning ferocity-highlights key processes by which human communicators construct meaning.