“That's it. i'm done with this team!”: public reactions to NFL teams' racial activism as a function of social identity management

W Seaton, GA Cranmer, C White, J Bober… - Communication …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study utilizes social identity theory to explore fan responses to the NFL teams' racial
advocacy on Twitter at the start of the 2020 football season. A content analysis of 2,868 …

Athletes' displaced dissent on social media: triggering agents, message strategies, and user-generated responses

GA Cranmer, S Peltz, B Boatwright… - Communication …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Organizational dissent is ubiquitous in task-oriented groups, including sports teams and
leagues. Yet, how and to whom that dissent is voiced and the responses to dissent can vary …

Social media trolls as faux third-party agents of image repair: China's disinformation campaign and statecraft in the Daryl Morey affair

GA Cranmer, D Linvill, H Smith, B Denham… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines trolls affiliated with the People's Republic of China (PRC) that targeted
conversations around former Houston Rockets' General Manager Daryl Morey, who tweeted …

Happy Birthday Title IX: The Role of Stakeholder Groups and Identity in Reactions to the 50th Anniversary of Title IX

G Cranmer, B Boatwright, H Gertz… - Western Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this manuscript, researchers examine the multivocality in Twitter discourse around Title
IX's 50th anniversary in intercollegiate athletics via a multi-stakeholder issue network …

Chinese Universities' image repair after network public opinion events: strategy choice and effect evaluation

J Jiang, J Ren - Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The study aims to address Chinese universities' image repair strategies after network public
opinion events in the field of crisis management; therefore, it takes 43 network public opinion …

“Why Can't We Play on Grass?”: An Investigation of Discourse on Sterling Shepard's ACL Tear

EG Cox, GA Cranmer… - Communication & Sport, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
This manuscript considers public discourse surrounding the link between playing surface
and lower-extremity injuries within the context of a case study on New York Giants' wide …

Theories in Sport Communication Research

SKSK Yoo, M Lee, LR Smith, S Roh - Routledge Handbook of …, 2025 - taylorfrancis.com
Sport communication has emerged as a bustling academic junction between the fields of
sport and communication. It stands as an extraordinarily vibrant “battlefield” of research and …

La Copa Mundial de la FIFA en los BRICS: retratos de los medios internacionales de Sudáfrica, Brasil y Rusia

D Gutierrez, GL Gutierrez - Staps, 2024 - shs.cairn.info
El artículo analiza cómo los medios internacionales retrataron al país anfitrión en tres Copas
Mundiales de la FIFA, Sudáfrica 2010, Brasil 2014 y Rusia 2018. La investigación analizó …

[PDF][PDF] Athlete Social Media Dissent: Trigger Agents, Message Strategies, and User-Generated Responses

G Cramner, S Peltz, B Boatright, J Sanderson… - researchgate.net
Organizational dissent is ubiquitous to all task-oriented groups, including sport teams and
leagues. Yet, how and to whom that dissent is voiced and the responses to dissent can vary …

[图书][B] Image Repair Theory

M Hambrick, LR Salazar - 2023 - sk.sagepub.com
When a negative act occurs, people and organizations can experience threats to their image
or reputation. The image repair theory describes five major strategies they can use to …