I just wanted to bring this lecture to people's attention. Looks really interesting. I'll start some discussion about this below when I get a chance.
Fall 2009 Distinguished Lecture
"Facing Off Over Facebook:
The Impact of Social Media on Women Sports"
Monday, October 19 at 7:00 pm at the Hubert H. Humphrey Center on the West Bank
panelists: Marie Hardin, Rachel Blount, Angela Ruggiero
Over the past 30 years, scholars have documented numerous ways in which traditional sport media marginalize and sexualize female athletes. Into this vast—and influential—media landscape appears the recent and exponential explosion of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Will this technological paradigm shift challenge or reproduce the ways in which female athletes are traditionally portrayed in mainstream sport media? Will the unprecedented popularity of social media—and the alternative “ways of knowing” it provides to traditional media—fundamentally alter how we view women’s sports? Panelists with diverse experiences and perspectives will “face off” and take on these important and largely unexplored questions as we move into the Age of New Media.
"Facing Off Over Facebook:
The Impact of Social Media on Women Sports"
Monday, October 19 at 7:00 pm at the Hubert H. Humphrey Center on the West Bank
panelists: Marie Hardin, Rachel Blount, Angela Ruggiero
Over the past 30 years, scholars have documented numerous ways in which traditional sport media marginalize and sexualize female athletes. Into this vast—and influential—media landscape appears the recent and exponential explosion of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Will this technological paradigm shift challenge or reproduce the ways in which female athletes are traditionally portrayed in mainstream sport media? Will the unprecedented popularity of social media—and the alternative “ways of knowing” it provides to traditional media—fundamentally alter how we view women’s sports? Panelists with diverse experiences and perspectives will “face off” and take on these important and largely unexplored questions as we move into the Age of New Media.
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