The Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio

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<p><i>The Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio</i> is the latest sports-media scholarship from the author of<i>How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism</i>, winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association s Communication and Sport Division.<br/></p>The 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 platformwhere people come together to interact insistently, colorfully, and often with stunning ferocityhighlights key processes by which human communicators construct meaning.<p></p>

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<p>Robert L. Kerr teaches media history and law at the University of Oklahoma, USA. He is a past winner of the National Communication Association¿s Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression. He has twice received his college¿s teaching award. </p>

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