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by Steve Bien-Aimé (Editor), Cynthia Wang (Editor)
This book highlights inconsistencies within the field of sports scholarship and provides an opportunity to open up and extend conversations about the intersection of sports media and race - particularly surrounding athletes of East Asian descent. Despite the growing influence of East Asian and Asian American/Canadian athletes, they are still underrepresented in Western media and in scholarship. This anthology adds much-needed literature to sports, popular culture, East Asian, and Asian American studies. The prominence of sports in global popular culture makes the intersections explored in this collection a crucial addition to existing conversations about both sports and East Asian/Asian American/Canadian studies.
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This book highlights inconsistencies within the field of sports scholarship and provides an opportunity to open up and extend conversations about the intersection of sports media and race -- particularly surrounding athletes of East Asian descent. Despite the growing influence of East Asian and Asian American/Canadian athletes, they are still underrepresented in Western media and in scholarship. This anthology adds much-needed literature to sports, popular culture, East Asian, and Asian American studies. The prominence of sports in global popular culture makes the intersections explored in this collection a crucial addition to existing conversations about both sports and East Asian/Asian American/Canadian studies.
Author Biography
Steve Bien-Aimé is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Kentucky University, USA. His research interests include race and gender portrayals in sports and news media. His work has been published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, International Journal of Sport Communication and Journal of Information Policy. Prior to receiving his doctorate, Bien-Aimé worked as a copy editor at The News Journal in Delaware and The Baltimore Sun and served in a variety of functions at FOXSports.com in Los Angeles, departing as deputy NFL editor.
Cynthia Wang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, USA. She is interested in the impact of digital communication technologies and social media on social relations, cultural practices, and power dynamics, particularly framed in perspectives of time and temporality. Her work can be found in journals such as Social Media + Society and Time & Society, and she is an author and co-editor of the books Indie Games in the Digital Age (2020) and Communicating Across Differences (2021) She is also the founder of The arqive, a digital LGBTQ storytelling map.
