On Communication and Sport

We are pleased to bring you this inaugural double issue of Communication & Sport (C&S). This journal hits the scene as research on sports media and communication continues to explode across a variety of disciplines. In recent years, the area has grown to become a major concern in the sociology of sport and sport management, where studies by communication scholars have commingled with those of scholars with a variety of disciplinary and theoretical dispositions. With the rise of interest in cultural practices in popular contexts, increased focus on sport has been seen in journals seated in communication. At first, this was reflected primarily in journals on the media studies side of the house, but more recently interest has grown in rhetorical studies and in the many settings studied under the umbrella of communication research. Put simply, the time has come for a journal concerned with sport that is firmly seated in the field of communication. It is time for a home of our own. In this regard, C&S has the goal of becoming first and leading international journal that engages understanding the social and cultural dynamics of sport through the full range of lenses seen in the field of communication. Still, we hope that scholars seated in sport sociology and management, who we have shared our interest in sport media and communication with over the years, will continue join us in the pages of C&S. Their work, and that of scholars with communicative concerns about sport anchored across the disciplinary panoramas that include cultural studies, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, politics, economics, political economy, psychology, philosophy, history, and many more will always be welcome in these pages.