In this introduction to a special issue on sport communication and social justice, we offer some reflections on the state of the discipline as it relates to social justice. We bring attention to the role of sport communication scholars in the advancement of social justice goals and articulate a set of dispositions for researchers to bring to their practice, predicated on internalizing and centralizing morality, ethics, and the political. Identifying the epistemological (under)currents in the meaningful study of communication and sport, we offer a set of challenges for researchers in the contemporary critique of the communication industries based on “sensibilities” or dispositions of the research to those studied. We then introduce and frame the 13 articles that make up this double special issue of Communication & Sport. Collectively, these articles begin to demonstrate such dispositions in their interrogation of some of the most important and spectacularized acts of social justice campaigns and activism in recent decades alongside investigations of everyday forms of marginalization, resistance, and collective action that underpin social change—both progressive and regressive. We hope this special issue provides a vehicle for continued work in the area of sports communication and social justice.

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在传播和体育奖学金中走向社会正义倾向

在这个关于体育传播和社会正义的特刊的介绍中，我们对与社会正义相关的学科状况进行了一些反思。我们关注体育传播学者在推进社会正义目标方面的作用，并阐明了一套研究人员在实践中运用的倾向，前提是将道德、伦理和政治内化和集中化。在对传播和体育的有意义的研究中确定认识论（暗流）潮流，我们为基于“敏感性”或研究对研究对象的倾向进行当代批判的研究人员提出了一系列挑战。然后，我们介绍并构建了构成通信与体育双特刊的 13 篇文章。总的来说，这些文章开始在他们对近几十年来社会正义运动和激进主义的一些最重要和最引人注目的行为的审讯中，以及对支持社会变革的日常形式的边缘化、抵抗和集体行动的调查——包括进步的和倒退的—— . 我们希望这个特刊为体育传播和社会正义领域的持续工作提供了一个工具。