Sport, Racism and Social Media

by Lee Hall, Amir Saeed, Daniel Kilvington, et al.

Book Overview

Racist abuse may at one time have been hurled across the sports stadium or scrawled on a wall. But in today's social media world it can be published to millions, from almost anywhere, in an instant.

Sport, Racism and Social Media provides the first significant, academic account of how social media is shaping the nature of racisms in sport. Among the questions it addresses are:

How, and why, is racism being expressed across...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415839866
• ISBN13: 9780415839860
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"