Repairing the Athlete's Image

Studies in Sports Image Restoration

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Repairing the Athlete’s Image: Studies in Sports Image Restoration, edited by Joseph R. Blaney, Lance Lippert, and J. Scott Smith, offers twenty-one case studies and conceptual frameworks about athletes and their organizations as they attempt to mitigate the effects of malfeasance. Employing traditional Image Restoration Theory (IRT) approaches to athletic communication (and other innovative approaches), the contributors to this volume add to our understanding of which communicative strategies work best for athletes when their reputations are sullied. This comprehensive text presents case studies of varying athletes, sports, and public relations scenarios with prescriptive advice for those attempting to repair athletic reputations. The contributors variously explore such controversies and mischief as the steroids accusations lobbed at Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, the Michael Phelps marijuana controversy, the sexual misconduct of Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant, and other topical subjects in sports communication and image repair. While this book will be useful for athletes, coaches, managers, and agents in varying athletic endeavors and levels, it is also a dream collection for teachers and scholars of sports communication. The subjects examined in this study span country, gender, and popularity of sport (not to mention a healthy variety of types of accusations.) Repairing the Athlete’s Image is an essential resource for graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses in sports communication and popular culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-06-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt:628 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:424
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739197646

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Joseph R. Blaney is associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of communication at Illinois State University.Lance R. Lippert is associate professor of communication at Illinois State University.J. Scott Smith is a PhD student at the University of Missouri.

Recensioner i media

In this ambitious. . . collection of 20 case studies, scholars (most from U.S. institutions) use William Benoit's theory of image restoration to analyze the image-repair discourse employed by sports figures and organizations. Blaney, Lippert, and Smith organize the collection according to the nature of the controversy (e.g., drugs) surrounding the individual in each case study. Four of the case studies focus on women, yet only Angela Jerome's study of Teresa Earnhardt (widow of race car driver Dale Earnhardt) specifically considers gender as a factor in public perception of the sports figure. Also flawed is J. Scott Smith's case study of Barry Bonds. To support his conclusion, Smith cites positive views toward Bonds and more negative views toward Mark McGwire in a poll of Hall of Fame voters. . . . Summing Up: Recommended.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart 1. DrugsChapter 1. From the Mitchell Report to Brian McNamee: Roger Clemen's Image Repair Discourse, J. Scott SmithChapter 2. "Big Mac" with a Side of Steroids: The Image Repair Strategies of Mark McGwire, John McGuire, Lori McKinnon, and Wayne WantaChapter 3. Defense of an Anti-Hero: Barry Bonds' "State of the Great Address", J. Scott SmithChapter 4. The Image Repair Media Interview as Apologia and Antapologia: Marion Jones on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Michael R. KramerChapter 5. The Michael Phelps Saga: From Successful Olympian, to Pot Smoker Caught on Camera, to Renewed Role Model and Brand, Rod Troester and Lindsay JohnsPart 2. Marital Infidelity and Sexual MisconductChapter 6. Tiger Woods' Image Repair: Could He Hit One Out of the Rough?, William L. BenoitChapter 7. Power, Privilege, and the Surprising Absence of Repair: Kobe Bryant and Interest Convergence, Rachel Alicia GriffinChapter 8. Strategies of Silence: The John Terry Affair and the British PressPart 3. Socia