Images collected from The Guardian and The Nation.

Sports & Politics in the U.S.

Monday, April 8, 2019 to Friday, April 12, 2019

Theme week organized by

Dafna KaufmanThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Brand Ambassadors": Cheerleaders, Gendered Labor, and Institutional Crisis in the NFL

By Brett Siegel

Monday, April 8, 2019

1 comment

Defamiliarizing Concussions

By Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Invisible Man: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf's Forgotten Protest

By Dafna Kaufman

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

How The Treatment of Women Sportscasters Foretold The Rise of Trumpism

By Guy Harrison

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Sports, Politics, and the #MeToo Movement

By Kathleen Bachynski

Friday, April 12, 2019

Contributors

Brett Siegel

Doctoral Student & Assistant InstructorThe University of Texas at Austin

Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Lecturing FellowDuke University

Dafna Kaufman

PhD Communication The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Guy Harrison

Assistant Professor, Telecommunication StudiesYoungstown State University

Recent comments

Re: Made In Canada: Lovingly Mocking the Canadian Television Industry

Too dark

By Andrea Ruehlicke

Thursday, May 21, 2020 - 14:08

Your point about it being almost "too dark" is really important. The first 6 episodes are bleak! And yet, there were 65 episodes of the show. It's so fascinating to me how these 6 have come to kind of define the program when, in my own memory, the...
Re: Made In Canada: Lovingly Mocking the Canadian Television Industry

Almost too dark for Canada.

By ShellyG

Thursday, May 21, 2020 - 01:05

Hi Andrea, Thanks for recalling this genre-bending--workplace comedy, satire, sit-com?--gem from Canadian television. I remember this show being incredibly smart, but almost being too dark in its biting satire; as both comedy and social...
Re: Simulation of Time: the Hyper-real Apocalypse

SFF Content Creation

By KarenStewart

Sunday, May 17, 2020 - 18:15

Science fiction has always been a fantastic indicator of societal speculation and now it seems the films can't keep up with reality, or are actually now "more real than the real." I've heard several SFF content creators talking about this...
Re: The Tipping Point of Kate Marsh: An Imbalance of Power in "Life is Strange" (2015)

Empathy Building

By KarenStewart

Sunday, May 17, 2020 - 18:15

Interesting that rewinding a game narrative and not having the ability to rewind it both build in-game empathy when implemented in smart/clever/timely ways. This game has been on my to-be-played list for some time. Your essay made me move it back to...
Re: "I’m so sick of chasing ghosts": Time Manipulation in This is Us

TV Time

By KarenStewart

Sunday, May 17, 2020 - 18:14

I've always enjoyed television for its ability to play with narrative time in ways that bring audiences closer to its characters. This seems like a perfect case study for examining how and why this works so well.