Sports Public Relations

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4129-3618-7
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

Recognizing and emphasizing business and sociocultural influences, this is a timely and unique examination of public relations in the sport industry. Along with providing a broad and well-researched theoretical foundation, L’Etang embeds throughout the text relevant examples and strategic applications of Sports PR in practice.

- Paul M. Pedersen, Indiana University

"A cleverly integrated and dynamic text, Sports Public Relations offers incisive PR guidance for navigating sport’s vast industrial scale, intractable social impact, turbulent political arena, and insatiable entertainment appetite. This cutting-edge text tackles the sport mediascape with originality and poise, ensuring it will quickly become a must-read for any PR-savvy sport marketer."

- Aaron Smith, RMIT University

Sport is one of the world's major businesses but it is also entertainment, celebrity, fandom and social cohesion, forming a central aspect of culture and communication. Public relations is part of the process at all levels, whether handling major sponsorship and media rights deals, events, promoting stars or increasing participation. This book: - Explains how PR issues arise for sport and sports business and how PR approaches and thinking may be used to solve them.

- Shows how and when the sports industry needs PR experts.

- Explores the connection between strategy and communication as they apply to sport and PR.

- Teaches students strategic and critical thinking essential for PR work.

Sports Public Relations is an essential guide for students in PR, sport studies, sport marketing and sport communication.

Autoren/Hrsg.

L&

L'Etang, Jacquie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport: Politik, Ökonomie, Ökologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Sport- und Freizeitindustrie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Public Relations
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationsmanagement, Public Relations

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introducing PR and Sport
Theories and Critiques of Sports PR
Corporate Communication in Organizational Contexts
Globalization, Culture and Sports PR
Sports Business and PR
Sports Spectacle, Mega Events and PR
Promoting Sport for Social Goals
PR for Minority and Lifestyle Sports
Understanding PR and Sport in Society

Über Autor(innen)

L'Etang, Jacquie
Jacquie L'Etang's books and articles have largely focused on historical, historiographical and critical themes in public relations. Recently retired, her career was spent at the University of Stirling and Queen Margaret University (QMU), Edinburgh. She currently supervises some doctoral students at QMU.