Packaging the games for viewer consumption: Gender, ethnicity, and nationality in nbc's coverage of the 2004 summer olympics

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-111

  Billings, Andrew C ^a   Angelini, James R ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Gender; Nationality; Olympics; Sport

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049391832     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463370600998731     Document Type: Article

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