In an introductory undergraduate media course, Super Bowl XLIX was used as a hands-on vehicle to introduce students to the discipline of mass-media research. From a week before and after Super Bowl XLIX, 269 original blog posts and 91 sets of appended comments from Web sites devoted to the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots were analyzed for significant differences using Diction 7.0, a common word-counting program that measures tone in dozens of ways. More than a dozen variations found in the blog messages are used to describe a “team tone” unique to Seahawks blogs and another unique to Patriots blogs. Some elements of these team tones are present across all messages, while others existed only before the game was played or arose only after New England’s dramatic win in the closing moments. Postgame variations include greater optimism in the tone of New England Patriots bloggers and greater hardship and denial in the tone of Seattle Seahawks bloggers. Results are discussed from the perspective of social-identity theory.
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Mary Jo Kane and Lisa J. Disch
Numerous media commentators have deemed the sexual harassment locker room incident between Lisa Olson and the New England Patriots to be an embarrassing case of mismanagement. Our analysis challenges this popular assumption; we argue that the event represents an overt manifestation of male power by means of sexual violence against women. The response to Olson suggests that in an era where women’s entry into sport has challenged men’s exclusive hold on that domain, the locker room, like the playing field, must be understood as contested terrain. For men to maintain control over the terrain of the locker room, the female sportswriter must be displaced from her role as authoritative critic of male performance and reassigned to her “appropriate” role of sexual object. In light of the importance of sport, and the status of the locker room as an inner sanctum of male privilege, the incident between Olson and the Patriots was not mismanaged at all but, in fact, handled effectively.
Aaron C. Mansfield
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Kim Gammage, Jeff Caron, Alyson Crozier, Alison Ede, Christopher Hill, Sean Locke, Desi McEwan, Kathleen Mellano, Eva Pila, Matthew Stork, and Svenja Wolf
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Hans C. Schmidt
then-Cubs, now Washington Nationals, pitcher Neil Ramirez wrote “#PrayForParis” ( Ramirez, 2015 ) on his shoes and tweeted a picture of them after the terrorist attacks in that city. Shane Vereen, a running back for the New England Patriots and now the New York Giants, wore a Sandy Hook bracelet after
Ben Larkin and Janet S. Fink
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Thomas K. Ewing
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Ryan P. Terry
as a low-level assistant coach in the NFL, eventually working his way up to the offensive coordinator position for the New York Jets under Bill Parcells. Weis then took a job with the New England Patriots where he helped develop legendary quarterback Tom Brady and earned three Super Bowl rings. In
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Kurtis Pankow, Amber D. Mosewich, and Nicholas L. Holt
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