Fair ball? Exploring the relationship between media sports and viewer morality

Sports Media: Transformation, Integration, Consumption

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 77-93

  Raney, Arthur A ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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