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1. Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media

   Edited by Andrew Billings, Marie Hardin

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   New media technologies have become a central part of the sports media landscape. Sports fans use new media to watch games, discuss sports transactions, form fan-based communities, and secure minutiae about their favorite players and teams. Never before have fans known so much about athletes,...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Fantasy Sport Industry

   Games within Games

   By Andrew Billings, Brody Ruihley

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Fantasy sport has become big business. Recent estimates suggest that there as many as 27 million fantasy sport participants in the US alone, spending $1.5bn annually, with many millions more around the world. This is the first in-depth study of fantasy sport as a cultural and social phenomenon and...

   To Be Published August 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Sports Media

   Transformation, Integration, Consumption

   Edited by Andrew Billings

   Series: Electronic Media Research Series

   Looking toward a future with increasingly hybridized media offerings, Sports Media: Transformation, Integration, Consumption examines sports media scholarship and its role in facilitating understanding of the increasingly complex world of sports media. Acknowledging that consumer demand for sports...

   To Be Published July 29th 2013 by Routledge
4. Olympic Media

   Inside the Biggest Show on Television

   By Andrew Billings

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   Located in the United States, NBC (National Broadcasting Company) is the biggest and most powerful Olympic network in the world, having won the rights to televise both the Summer and the Winter Olympic Games. By way of attracting more viewers of both sexes and all ages and ethnicities than any...

   Published January 22nd 2008 by Routledge