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Not just an imagined community : = Mass media and the identity matrix of sports.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Not just an imagined community :/
Reminder of title:	Mass media and the identity matrix of sports.
Author:	Chen, Tzu-hsuan.
Description:	1 online resource (263 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International67-07A.
Subject:	Mass media. -
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ISBN:	9780542274497

Not just an imagined community : = Mass media and the identity matrix of sports.
Chen, Tzu-hsuan.

Not just an imagined community :Mass media and the identity matrix of sports. - 1 online resource (263 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation explores the construction of identity in contemporary America through the sport of baseball. A tri-tiered identity matrix, also known as communicatively integrated entity, is my analytical device. These three levels function differently but are integrated to form each individual's identity. On the national (macro) level, baseball has been appropriated by the mass media and socio-political elites as a symbol of distinctive Americaness and nostalgic pastoralness. On the regional (meso) level, through the urban entrepreneurialism and human nature in topophilia, city-based professional baseball becomes not only a spectacle but also a modern continuity which unites the denizens of the cities and their outskirt regions. On the (inter)personal level, baseball integrates itself into the everyday rhythm and is inseparable from American everyday life. The construction of identity matrix is an idiosyncratic process. However, the symbol of the "home team" provides a common denominator. American city-based sports teams are the vehicle of identity for the fans. However, the concept of home is a dynamic construction. In the dynamics of the identity matrix, human beings are capable of constructing their own individual identities and articulate themselves with the city and the nation. With both horizontal and vertical connections in the identity matrix and the dialectic process in the movement between different levels, a nation is not just an imagined community but also a tangible one.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780542274497Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Mass media.
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BaseballIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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