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Lance Armstrong
No sportsman's image can ever have been as completely transformed as that of Lance Armstrong, who went from redemptive cancer survivor and seven-time Tour de France winner hailed by US presidents to cycling's \"all-time historic rotten apple\". This chapter analyses the part played by the sporting media in first creating, and then refashioning, Armstrong's image, and argues that, far from playing a decisive role, sports journalists were some way behind US law enforcement and former backers who felt deceived in bringing him down. It also argues that, just as Armstrong was used to project a sense of renewal after the Festina revelations of 1998, post-Armstrong narratives whitewash the sport.
Book Chapter
Joining up policy discourses and fragmented practices: the precarious contribution of cultural projects to social inclusion?
English This article outlines New Labour's policy discourse about social exclusion and the confusing challenge it poses to local cultural projects. Government now demands hard evidence to measure the impact of cultural projects on performance indicators such as education, employment, crime and health. However, community-based workers are hard pressed to collect valid and reliable data that evaluate projects against clear criteria for social inclusion. This article outlines possible criteria for social inclusion. Then, drawing on data collected from two 'Arts in Health' projects, we examine how contributions to social inclusion might have been effected. Considerable energy is required to form new alliances and health partnerships to resolve the dilemmas posed by a confused policy discourse and by fragile funding streams.
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Routledge Handbook of Sports Journalism
The Routledge Handbook of Sports Journalism is a comprehensive and in-depth survey of the fast moving and multifaceted world of sports journalism. Encompassing historical and contemporary analysis, and case studies exploring best practice as well as cutting edge themes and issues, the book also represents an impassioned defence of the skill and art of the trained journalist in an era of unmediated digital commentary.
With contributions from leading sports media scholars and practising journalists, the book examines journalism across print, broadcast and digital media, exploring the everyday reality of working as a contemporary reporter, editor or sub-editor. It considers the organisations that shape output, from PR departments to press agencies, as well as the socio-political themes that influence both content and process, such as identity, race and gender. The book also includes interviews with, and biographies of, well-known journalists, as well as case studies looking at the way that some of the biggest names in world sport, from Lance Armstrong to Caster Semenya, have been reported.
This is essential reading for all students, researchers and professionals working in sports journalism, sports broadcasting, sports marketing and management, or the sociology or history of sport.
eBook
MISUNDERSTANDING SOCIAL ORDER: Child-Care in Two Community Home Schools
Social order in total institutions can be understood as the social product of staff & inmates working out structural relationships. Dominant groups impose order by presenting their own interests as organizational goals, needs, or common sense. The staffs of community home schools, however, have to accommodate their methods to the ideas of child care & social work, leaving them without clear guides to action. The resulting problems are illustrated through questionnaire data from samples of 65 & 62 boys, & of 23 & 22 staff members in a structured therapeutic community home school in the UK. Staff members have a professional vocabulary of motives that legitimizes social intervention, internment, & control, & that permits greater autonomy in decisions about inmate needs. This situation is baffling for inmates because it is more beneficent & flexible than traditional regimes but leaves staff still in control. Ironically, some staff have failed to understand this latent function of child care. 6 Tables. Modified Author Conclusion.
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