Michael R Real

Biographic Data

ID274508
NAMEMichael R Real
GIVEN NAMESMichael R
FAMILY NAMEReal
SIGNATUREREAL M R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California San Diego
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS30
WORKS AS AUTHOR15
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX2

  • Reflections on Communication and Sport

    Open AccessMichael R RealARTICLECommunication & Sport2013Cited by: 4References: 9

    In this essay, Michael Real reflects on why communication about sport is of cultural importance and worthy of critical study. The early part of the essay reflects on challenges faced in the development of the study of communication and sport and the author’s involvement in that development. The author reflects on his choice to focus on spectacle and mega-events, such as media treatment of the Super Bowl and the Olympic Games. The essay traces sig…

  • The Challenge of a Culture-Centered Paradigm

    Michael R RealARTICLEAnnals of the International…1992Cited by: 1References: 6

  • Deep Fan

    Michael R Real, Robert A MechikoffARTICLESociology of Sport Journal1992Cited by: 23References: 4

    The relationship between the media sports fan and the sporting event closely parallels the position of the ritual participant acting out a mythic celebration. Such identification between the viewer/participant and the event has been characterized as “deep play” by Geertz (1973). However, this fan experience in the modem era is shaped not just by human face-to-face interaction, as was Geertz’s famous Balinese cockfight; instead, a specific media t…

  • The Worldwide Failure of Media Policies

    Philo C Wasburn, Elizabeth Fox et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1990

  • Critical/institutional communications research

    Michael R Real, Clifford G Christians et al.ARTICLECritical Studies in Mass…1986

    (1986). Critical/institutional communications research. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 458-486

  • The Debate on Critical Theory and the Study of Communications

    Open AccessMichael R Real, Michael RealARTICLEJournal of Communication1984

    Journal Article The Debate on Critical Theory and the Study of Communications Get access Michael Real Michael Real 1Michael Real is Professor in the Department of Telecommunications and Film, San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 34, Issue 4, December 1984, Pages 72–80, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1984.tb02189.x Published: 07 February 2006

  • Entertainment

    Open AccessMichael R Real, Michael RealARTICLEInternational Journal of…1982

  • Television Access for Older Adults

    Open AccessMichael R Real, Hayes Leonard Anderson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Communication1980

    Michael R. Real, Hayes L. Anderson, Marilyn H. Harrington; Television Access for Older Adults, Journal of Communication, Volume 30, Issue 1, 1 March 1980

  • Media Theory

    Open AccessMichael R RealARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1980Cited by: 2

    IN A STUDY TITLED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SYMBOLS,' CLAUDE LEVIStrauss locates a concept that is central to any genuinely theoretical understanding of communication. The study examines a shamanistic curing text of considerable antiquity from the Cuna Indians of Panama. The text is a rite for releasing blockage from a particularly difficult childbirth. In the rite, the shaman narrates a long dramatic myth seemingly unrelated to childbirth. In his tex…

  • Jacques Ellul's Contributions to Critical Media Theory

    Open AccessClifford G Christians, Michael R RealARTICLEJournal of Communication1979

    Day after day the wind blows away the pages of our calendars, our newspapers, and our political regimes, and we glide along the stream of time without any spiritual framework, without a memory, without a judgment, carried about by “all winds of doctrine” on the current of history, which is always slipping into a perpetual past. Now we ought to react vigorously against this slackness—this tendency to drift. If we are to live in this world we need …

  • Mass-Mediated Culture

    Jerry M Lewis, Michael R RealARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1979

  • Music

    Michael R Real, Ortiz M WaltonARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1976

  • Super Bowl

    Open AccessMichael R RealARTICLEJournal of Communication1975

    Journal Article Super Bowl: Mythic Spectacle Get access Michael R. Real Michael R. Real 1Michael R. Real is Assistant Professor of Communications at the University of California at San Diego and a former quarterback (offense) and middle linebacker (defense) at a "every small school." Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 1975, Pages 31–43, https://doi.org/10.11…

  • Cultural Studies and Mass‐Mediated Culture

    Open AccessMichael R RealARTICLEThe Journal of Popular Culture1975

  • Popular Culture, Media Propaganda, and the 1972 “Creep” Campaign

    Open AccessMichael R RealARTICLEThe Journal of Popular Culture1974