How Canadians communicate V : : sports /

How Canadians communicate V : : sports / / edited by David Taras and Christopher Waddell.

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Fewer Canadians than ever are lacing up skates, swimming lengths at the pool, practicing their curve ball, and experiencing the thrill of competition. However, despite a decline in active participation, Canadians spend enormous amounts of time and money on sports, as fans and followers of sporting e...

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Superior document:How Canadians communicate ; V
VerfasserIn:
Taras, David, 1950-
Waddell, Christopher Robb,
TeilnehmendeR:
Taras, David, 1950-
Waddell, Christopher Robb,
Place / Publishing House:Edmonton [Alberta] : : AU Press,, [2016]
Ottawa, Ontario : : Canadian Electronic Library,, 2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:How Canadians communicate ; 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource (330 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:This volume emerged from a conference that was part of the How Canadians Communicate series of conferences held in Banff in October 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Power plays : communication and control in Canadian sports / David Taras
  • part I. The medium is the money
  • 1. Troubles in the toy department : conflicts of interest, the triumph of trivia, and the changing face of sports journalism / Roy MacGregor
  • 2. The hall of mirrors / Christopher Waddell
  • 3. The end of CBC Sports? / Jay Scherer
  • 4. Playing make-believe : how fantasy leagues have changed sports / Derrick Newman
  • part II. Searching for heroes in the new media world
  • 5. Questioning assumptions : a comparison of Canadian and American university sports / Duane Bratt
  • 6. Of home teams and visiting players : imports and substitutions in Canadian professional sports /. Ira Wagman
  • 7. The changing world of sports in Québec / André Richelieu
  • 8. The Olympics as an iconic event : the question of national unity and the Vancouver 2010 Games / Harry Hiller
  • 9. Debating disability : Paralympic athletes and the media / David Legg
  • part III. Hockey Night in Canada
  • 10. Hockey, concussions, and the media / Tom Maloney
  • 11. The Hockey Calgary body-checking vote : colliding views / Janice Paskey
  • 12. Goodbye, Gordie Howe : sport participation and class inequality in the "pay for play" society / Richard Gruneau
  • 13. Cultivating distinction through hockey as commodity / Peter Zuurbier
  • 14. Hockey art as visual communication : insights from oral culture / Chaseten Remillard
  • part IV. Drugs, violence, and death
  • 15. The Kayfabe era : early professional wrestling in Canada / Glenn Ruhl
  • 16. "The UFC is selling wolf tickets" : sport and fiction in the ultimate fighting championship / Bart Beaty
  • 17. On the temptations of doping : moral relativism and the Tour de France / Angela J. Schneider
  • 18. An insider's look at the Vancouver 2010 luge tragedy / Regan Lauscher
  • 19. Communicating tragedy : the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili at the Vancouver Olympics / Jeremy Berry
  • 20. The half a mile of Heaven's Gate / Aritha van Herk.

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