Editorial
Introduction to This Special Issue of IJSC on Twitter
Jimmy Sanderson
Student Research
#WorldSeries: An Empirical Examination of a Twitter Hashtag During a Major Sporting Event
Matthew Blaszka, Lauren M. Burch, Evan L. Frederick, Galen Clavio, Patrick Walsh
Industry Interviews
Interview With Kathleen Hessert, Founder and President of BuzzMgr and SportsMediaChallenge
Betsy Emmons
Interview With Pat Donahue, Coordinator of Digital Media, Los Angeles Kings
Matthew H. Zimmerman
Original Research
How Tweet It Is: A Gendered Analysis of Professional Tennis Players’ Self-Presentation on Twitter
Katie Lebel, Karen Danylchuk
Why We Follow: An Examination of Parasocial Interaction and Fan Motivations for Following Athlete Archetypes on Twitter
Evan L. Frederick, Choong Hoon Lim, Galen Clavio, Patrick Walsh
The Positives and Negatives of Twitter: Exploring How Student-Athletes Use Twitter and Respond to Critical Tweets
Blair Browning, Jimmy Sanderson
Networked Fandom: Applying Systems Theory to Sport Twitter Analysis
Galen Clavio, Lauren M. Burch, Evan L. Frederick
Case Study
Identity in Twitter’s Hashtag Culture: A Sport-Media-Consumption Case Study
Lauren Reichart Smith, Lauren Reichart Smith
