Temple Presentation
Transcript: "The influences on decision-making and gatekeeping in mainstream sports media, such as institutional culture and journalistic norms, are often muted in the blogsphere, making social identity and cultural hegemony more salient influences on decision-making about content" (Hardin, Zhong, & Corrigan, 2012). "Discussions with bloggers about decision-making processes, especially as blogs become more commercialized and even loosely affiliated with large media organizations . . . would be most useful in exploring our assumptions" (Hardin, Zhong, & Corrigan, 2012). "You know, I'll be frank, T.C. ... My current job kind of sucks ... So I can go home and spend several hours a day doing FrozenPucks for very little money, but because people appreciate it, and it’s something I enjoy doing and enjoy discussing, you know, it’s not work at all and I feel much better doing it." "This is going to sound really cocky and egotistical, but I know more about the Knights than the guys that follow the team for the [local newspaper]. I know more about the Knights than any other Knights blogger, and I know more about the Knights than anybody that currently works for the Knights . . . . . . Being a big fan matters. I mean it has to matter, otherwise why would you do it if you’re not a big fan, you know?" "My hope anyway is that this will lead to something else but—. Maybe not something else, but that this will turn into something I can do full time, which is something that I’m passionate about and something that I love to do. So I just think it would be, you know, kind of the perfect storm if I could do that." I like the fact that I can opine from the perspective of the fan and I don’t want to have to check sources and get both sides of the story. I don’t want to deal with any of that stuff. So that’s why I’ve tried to stay away from credentials. I’m always going to link to the other beat reporters and the other blog—the Tiger Tracks blog that operates through ESPN True Hoop . . . they’re the authoritative voices that need to be read by everybody, including myself. Then I’m going to look at sort of a greater league perspective—see if the some of the national writers have commented on the game, guys like John Hollinger, some of the main ESPN guys. ESPN Local Thanks, G. Murdock (1982) Conferences & Topics History of Broadcast Rights Marketplace Dissertation working title: Social Organization of Newswork Methods [bloggers do not] lend themselves well to the classic techniques of media production ethnography Thomas F. Corrigan Ph.D Candidate College of Communications, Pennsylvania State University Fantasy fans?: Comparing team identification among fantasy football players and non-fantasy football players "Nuts & Bolts" What did you do today? How & why did you do it? Sports Media & Disability Sports, Media & Society Political Economy of Communications Other Players Pressure: Posting Regularity & Frequency 6.59 6.53 6.16 Editorial Community Bloomburg Government Write daily links "Burrowing" "The [Carmelo Anthony] trade news brought joy to more than Knicks fans. Beat reporters across the country are excited that something is happening in the professional basketball world; no matter how distant or irrelevant the trade is to their actual beat, they have found a way to tie the trade back into their writing . . . Fun and Personal Satisfation Thesis: Those darn bloggers... "It started to feel as though the foundations of sports journalism were cracking. By my reckoning, sports journalism relied on distribution, objectivity and access. Distribution was easy: I could publish my thoughts to Faith and Fear within seconds and reach a global audience. Now, our readers’ reactions suggested objectivity wasn’t the asset I’d assumed it was." ---- Fry # of Baltimore Sun stories in 2009 ‘The organization of production is the most fundamental distinction between journalism and blogging. Differences in content, work processes, tone, values, and format are symptoms of this underlying structural difference’ (Lowrey, 2006) Sports & Media and Critical/Cultural Media Studies @Penn State Hope Labor Online hires @ AOL's , , & News Corp.'s Methods both are concerned with how the organization and structure of media shape the range and nature of media Staff 9 NBA & NHL Bloggers All men T.C.'s Political Economy To Do List: Top 15 most-visited sports sites, August 2011 High School Sports Media Where's all this going? Ownership Conferences & Topics Courses taught @ Penn State Political Economy of Communications Ph.D Candidate College of Communications Pennsylvania State University Set preview to go live at 2:00 Post the game thread Set DVR for game Write recap Athletic-Academic Integration Athletic-Academic Integration How are resources allocated at SB Nation? Why are resources allocated the way they are? The study . . . examined all the outlets that produced local news in Baltimore, Md., for one week much of the “news” people receive contains no original reporting. Fully