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Towards a social justice disposition in communication and sport scholarship

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posted on 2023-08-05, 12:54 authored by Daniel Jackson, Filippo TrevisanFilippo Trevisan, Emma Pullen, Michael L. Silk

In this introduction to a special issue on sport communication and social justice, we offer some reflections on the state of the discipline as it relates to social justice. We bring attention to the role of sport communication scholars in the advancement of social justice goals and articulate a set of dispositions for researchers to bring to their practice, predicated on internalizing and centralizing morality, ethics, and the political. Identifying the epistemological (under)currents in the meaningful study of communication and sport, we offer a set of challenges for researchers in the contemporary critique of the communication industries based on “sensibilities” or dispositions of the research to those studied. We then introduce and frame the 13 articles that make up this double special issue of Communication & Sport. Collectively, these articles begin to demonstrate such dispositions in their interrogation of some of the most important and spectacularized acts of social justice campaigns and activism in recent decades alongside investigations of everyday forms of marginalization, resistance, and collective action that underpin social change—both progressive and regressive. We hope this special issue provides a vehicle for continued work in the area of sports communication and social justice.

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Communication and Sport

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Communication and Sport, Volume 8, Issue 4-5, 1 August 2020, Pages 435-451.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:85542

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