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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"ESPN"”.
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Making It Pay to be a Fan: The Political Economy of Digital Sports Fandom and the Sports Media Industry
… represents. The third and final case study is of ESPN. By far the oldest and most powerful of the three cases, ESPN, the self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader in Sports,” has made the majority of its money off its innovation of the per subscriber fee, or the fee that ESPN charges cable companies to …
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Audience Reach Projection for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa
… behavior of 2010 World Cup content across ESPN's media platforms. We specified and tested two Hidden Markov models on simulated data to forecast mutli-platform reach. Currently we are developing a Bayesian multivariate regression with time-varying covariates. Communicating with ESPN …
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Sporting Bodies: The Rhetorics of Professional Female Athletes
… how female athletes use venues such as ESPN The Magazine as a vehicle to represent themselves even as they are represented by ESPN in ways that are not entirely within their control, and examine how female athletes’ self-presentation in the Body Issues can be interpreted as strategic, …
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Understanding the relationship between weather conditions and home run rates in the MLB
… the preceding weeks. Data were collected from ESPN and Weather Underground for over 36,000 games between the 2003 and 2017 seasons. These consisted of game statistics and 59 weather variables. Random Forests was used to determine which set of these variables were important predictors of home …
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Do Gender Inequalities Exist in Professional Tennis? An Examination of SportsCenter's™ Highlight Coverage of the 2007 Wimbledon Tennis Tournament.
… of the Entertainment Sports Programming Network (ESPN) television show SportsCenter™ was videotaped daily during the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament. Variables analyzed included total highlight time and average time per highlight, total number of highlights, highlights in the introduction to …
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The Fantasy Focus: A content analysis of sports magazines examining the rise in popularity of fantasy games
… examined fantasy content taken from issues of ESPN magazine, Sports Illustrated, and Sporting News from all of 1999, 2000, 2001, as well as March (start of baseball season), August (start of football season), and October (start of basketball season/only month when all three leagues are active) …
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A Social Cognitive Approach Towards Understanding The Effects Of Popular Poker Television Shows On College Students
… ratings draw on American television. Since ESPN and the Travel Channel began airing their innovative poker shows in 2003, the game has reached a new following, particularly among college students. There are unique and psychologically significant factors that characterize the college …
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"You're not portraying me as the villain this season, are you?": Formula 1: Drive to Survive and Netflix's serialized sports docuseries
… them from competitors like HBO and ESPN. Specifically, Netflix relies on serialization to keep audiences engaged in these sports programs from episode to episode and season to season. Storylines are not resolved within one episode or even one season, which contributes to audiences …
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Understanding Actin Dynamics and Its Regulatory Mechanisms in Developing Stereocilia
… filament populations or transport cargo such as ESPN-L1 to stereocilia tips. Strikingly, simultaneous deletion of MYO3A and ESPN1 eliminated MYO3B from stereocilia tips and sharply reduced tip width, suggesting that MYO3 complexes regulate actin incorporation specifically at the upper shaft. …
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Reactions to a Near Fatal Accident: An Investigation of Emotion and Coping Responses
… to traumatic travel incidents, although ESPN (Lavigne, 2010) noted that bus safety should be a concern for team travel.</p>
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We Are Also Home
… by the masses all because an Indian child turned ESPN star walks away a Scripps spelling bee champion every summer and because an Indian adult in a physician’s white coat is about as common as the cold. Yet, flattery cannot and should not be the incentive for South Asian Americans to excel within …
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Mediating the Bubble: ESPN's SportsCenter's Coverage of the NCAA men's Basketball Bubble
<p>This dissertation examines ESPN's SportsCenter's coverage of the NCAA men's basketball tournament bubble. The dissertation examines the differences in coverage between average teams from the six major NCAA Division I men's basketball conferences and teams from the other 25 conferences. The …
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Leveling the Playing Field? A Content Analysis of ESPN.com and ESPNW.com’s Online Coverage
… coverage provided by the male-centric website ESPN.com and its affiliated female-centric website ESPNW.com. The amount and type of coverage provided for female athletes was the primary focus of this study. Results suggest that ESPNW.com provides an outlet for increased coverage of women’s …
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Colour in the lines: The racial politics and possibilities of US skateboarding culture
This thesis examines the informal sporting culture of skateboarding as a contested site of racial politics in the United States of America (US). Action sports scholars have long identified the ‘whiteness’ of this sport but rarely created space for the voices of people of colour (POC) within …