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- Title
A Method to March Madness? Institutional Logics and the 2006 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division Men's Basketball Tournament.
- Authors
Southall, Richard M.; Nagel, Mark S.; Amis, John M.; Southall, Crystal
- Abstract
As the United States' largest intercollegiate athletic event, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball tournament consistently generates high television ratings and attracts higher levels of advertising spending than the Super Bowl or the World Series. Given the limited analysis of the organizational conditions that frame these broadcasts' production, this study examines the impact of influential actors on the representation process. Using a mixed-method approach, this paper investigates production conditions and processes involved in producing a sample (n = 31) of NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament broadcasts, examines the extent to which these broadcasts are consistent with the NCAA's educational mission, and considers the dominant institutional logic that underpins their reproduction. In so doing, this analysis provides a critical examination of the 2006 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament broadcasts, and how such broadcasts constitute, and are constituted by, choices in television production structures and practices.
- Subjects
NCAA Basketball Tournament; TELEVISED sports; TELEVISION production &; direction; COLLEGE sports; SPORTS &; economics; SOCIOLOGY of sports; ETHICS; MARKETING
- Publication
Journal of Sport Management, 2008, Vol 22, Issue 6, p677
- ISSN
0888-4773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/jsm.22.6.677