The International Review for the Sociology of Sport, an academic journal that focuses on research and scholarship in social issues in sport, just published online an article written by Andrew Billings and I on sports media discourse.
The paper entitled Affirming nationality in transnational circumstances: Slovenian coverage of continental franchise sports competitions examines discursive framing of nationality within Slovenian broadcasts of international men’s basketball and women’s team handball matches—a relatively seldom studied topic given that international media scholars typically focus on broadcasts of national team competitions such as the ongoing Euro 2012.
Readers interested in the topic may access the manuscript abstract free of charge here. Full text is available to subscribers or those accessing the journal website from a library that is subscribed to this Sage-published journal. Others may purchase access to the article at a fee.
The article has not been published in a printed issue of the journal yet; rather, it is available through the OnlineFirst system which enables contributions to be published online before they are scheduled to actually appear in print. Such an article can be cited by quoting the doi (digital object identifier) number in the list of references. Affirming nationality in transnational circumstances’ doi is 10.1177/1012690212446821.
This is the first article based on my 2011 dissertation that is published in a peer-reviewed journal. Hopefully, other will follow soon.
Happy reading!