Mediated Football : Representations and Audience Receptions of Race/Ethnicity, Nation and Gender

This book provides new and critical insights into how mediated football influences, and is affected by, discourses and stereotypes about race/ethnicity, nation and gender that operate at local, national and global levels. It analyzes contemporary media representations and the ways in which they are interpreted and used by football media audiences. These issues are explored across all media genres in a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural manner, with contributions from diverse disciplines and countries.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

Football has become one of the most mediated cultural practices in modern Western societies, providing players, officials and spectators with implicit and often hidden discourses about race/ethnicity, national identity and gender. This book provides new and critical insights into how mediated football as a contested cultural practice influences, and is influenced by, discourses and stereotypes about race/ethnicity, nation and gender that operate at the local, national and global level. It analyzes both contemporary media representations and the ways these representations are negotiated, interpreted and used by football media audiences. These issues are explored across all media genres (print media, television, online, social media, film, and so forth) in a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural manner, with contributions from diverse disciplines and countries.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.