Journalism and Mass Communication Volume 2 (2015), Article ID 2:IJJMC-112, 7 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2349-2635/2015/112
https://doi.org/10.15344/2349-2635/2015/112
Review Article
Contemporary Sport as Media Spectacle: Mass Media and the Transformation of the Field of Sport
Abstract
This article is concerned with the mass media-sport nexus, and its role in shaping and transforming the field of sport in what we can call its contemporary phase; this will be taken to refer to the last forty years or so, in which time the relatively incipient and equivocal relationship that sport developed with the mass media during the first sixty years of the twentieth century became a symbiotic relationship.