Finding Teammates on a Messy Playing Field: Continued Thoughts on 10 Years of Theory & Method in Communication & Sport

2025/05/28 by R. Glenn Cummins, Dustin Hahn · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Digital Games and Media #Sports, Gender, and Society #Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

paper · doi:10.1177/21674795251346987

openalex publication_date 2025/05/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

Capping off a series of responses to a systematic review of 10 years of Communication & Sport , this essay underscores a few common observations and offers a few concluding thoughts on the “messy scholarly playing field” that may characterize scholarship within the journal. In an effort to better unify those exploring the nexus of communication and sport, this essay calls for greater effort to present our scholarship in a way that is accessible to all publishing in Communication & Sport and beyond.

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