{"product_id":"gaming-sports-jason-kido-lopez-9781978849297","title":"Gaming Sports: Gambling and the Sports Media Complex","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGaming Sports: Gambling and the Sports Media Complex\u003c\/i\u003e examines games that are based on sports--like horse race and sports betting, fantasy sports, and March Madness brackets--and explores their relationship to sports and sports media. It seeks to improve common ways of understanding these games and to correct prevalent misconceptions. For example, gaming is often seen to be a supplementary add-on that is essentially corruptive to sports and sports fandom. \u003ci\u003eGaming Sports\u003c\/i\u003e challenges this view and explores how gaming and gambling have always been part of commercialized sports leagues, sports media, and sports cultures. Indeed, gaming has an under explored role in explaining why certain sports rose to popularity, how sports leagues are organized, the way sports media covers sports, and how fans engage with sports. \u003ci\u003eGaming Sports\u003c\/i\u003e tracks the development American sports-based games from colonization to the present to argue that gaming and sports have always influenced and been built upon each other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Kido Lopez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 197884929X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978849297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Jason Kido Lopez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997576179967,"sku":"9781978849297","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gaming-sports-jason-kido-lopez-9781978849297","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}