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Boosters and boosters: how sports fans and partisans react to athlete statements on vaccination
ABSTRACT The highly polarized North American experience with COVID-19 often intertwined with sports, meaning that messages were filtered through differing social identities, political partisan and sports fan. This experimental study finds political identities more salient than sports fandom when hearing athlete’s views on vaccination; only self-identified political independents saw any attitudinal change athletes’ perspectives.
“The Media Answer”: How Athletes Conceptualize Their Relationship to the Press in the Players’ Tribune
Skip to main content Intended for healthcare professionals Get full access to this article View all access and purchase options for this article. References Abbott A. (1988). The system of professions: An essay on the division of expert labor. University of Chicago Press. Bingaman J. (2022). “Dude I’ve never felt this way towards a celebrity death”: Parasocial grieving and the collective mourning of Kobe Bryant on Reddit. Omega, 86(2), 364–381. https://doi.org/10.1177/0030222820971531 Bishop R. (2009).
Freedom for Whom?
“One of the most acute paradoxes present in the history of Western society,” wrote Angela Davis in her “First Lecture on Liberation,” “is that while on a philosophical plane freedom has been delineated in the most lofty and sublime fashion, concrete reality has always been permeated with the most brutal forms of unfreedom, of enslavement.” Here, Davis gives us the key contradiction in the history of the idea of freedom in Western political thought.
When Poetry Summons the Dead
Homesick, Odysseus summons the spirit of the dead Tiresias for guidance before traveling home. This moment, in Book XI of the Odyssey, is perhaps the oldest and, certainly, one of the most famous examples of the uncanny kinship between poetry and the art of summoning the dead. Closer to our own time, some of the most interesting poetry has likewise exploited the form’s natural tendencies for the elegiac, poetry’s almost necromantic spell.
Promotional Space or Public Forum: Protest Coverage and Reader Response in Team-Operated Media
Abbott, A. (1988). The system of professions: An essay on the division of expert labor. University of Chicago Press. Google Scholar | Crossref Anderson, A. A., Yeo, S. K., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., Xenos, M. A. (2018). Toxic talk: How online incivility can undermine perceptions of media. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 30, 156–168. doi:10.1093/ijpor/edw022 Google Scholar Anderson, C. W. (2013).
Will the Crowd Go Wild?: Reimagining the Newspaper Sports Section for Digital Subscribers
The economic troubles facing the media industry have led newspapers to search for new revenue models. At least one major American media company has made a big bet on digital subscriptions, including those that unbundle the daily report by content area. This includes the sale of sports-only packages. This paper uses interview data with five editors within the chain to explore how a shift in audience strategy may affect the day-to-day work of the newspaper sports section.
Helen DeWitt, Hand to Mouth
Is Helen DeWitt a genius? Readers familiar with the author’s fiction will not find this question out of line. Genius is a word that comes quickly to the lips of her champions, especially when they discuss her first novel.
Boy Eats Bug
I’ve been a vegetarian for nearly 15 years and a vegan for the past five. Making allowances for mistaken orders, issues of translation, and the occasional (if surprisingly frequent) misunderstanding by a server or chef of just what a vegetarian or vegan is, I have not eaten milk, pork, cheese, or beef. Once, however, I intentionally ate bugs. It needs to be said that I did so intentionally because, frankly, we’ve all eaten bugs.
When Police Are the Problem
Think, if you’ll indulge me, of your last significant encounter with a police officer. For some, this may be difficult, and perhaps all that will come to mind is asking an officer for directions. For others, it will be easy and painful: perhaps you were stopped on your way to work and patted down, or maybe you were pepper-sprayed at a protest.
Women of the Algerian Resistance
On May 8, 1945, France joined the festivities of V-E Day, celebrating the total defeat of Nazi Germany as well as the ... On May 8, 1945, France joined the festivities of V-E Day, celebrating the total defeat of Nazi Germany as well as the liberation of France. On that same day, a group of Algerians demanded independence from their colonial occupiers—the French—in protests throughout eastern Algeria.
Interviewing LaVar Ball (sometimes) is an ethical imperative
Have the Los Angeles Lakers players stopped responding to their head coach? LaVar Ball, the outspoken father of the team’s rookie point guard, thinks so. Last weekend, he told an ESPN reporter that Lakers Head Coach Luke Walton “doesn’t have control of the team no more. They don’t want to play for him.” Nonsense, say other coaches around the NBA, who are defending the 37-year-old coach.
Isaac Deutscher Redux
Discussed in this essay: The Non-Jewish Jew, and Other Essays, by Isaac Deutscher. Published in a 50th anniversary edition by Verso, 2017, 176 pages. WHAT MAKES a Jew a Jew? Are we an ethnic group? Religious? Racial? These questions of identity and politics (if not identity politics) are often answered in terms of exclusion and tribalism rather than a collective identity or common cause.
Tweeting in defeat: How candidates concede and claim victory in 140 characters
The concession and victory speech is a ritual in American politics, described by Corcoran as a “rite of capitulation,” in which both candidates at the end of an election sanction the legitimacy of the process, agree on the outcome, and start the political transition. Concession and victory speeches emerged as a distinct convention in the television era, but as web services like Twitter take on a larger role in electoral politics, traditions like the concession are being adapted to new formats.
Scott Walker thinks my university has fat to trim. Yet my department is barely scraping by.
Michael Mirer is a doctoral candidate in the University of Wisconsin at Madison's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. February 4, 2015 Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker delivers his state budget address Tuesday night. The budget includes a $300 million cut to the Wisconsin university system. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via Associated Press) You might think that one of the nation’s leading academic communication programs would be a good place to make a long-distance phone call.
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