Tag: Steph Doehler
Taking the star-spangled knee: the media framing of Colin Kaepernick | A summary
In this feature article, Steph Doehler summarizes her article in Sport in Society, in which she analyses the newspaper coverage of Colin Kaepernick’s protest using the concept of media framing. She identifies four key frames which can be scrutinized and understood using the theoretical framework of the protest paradigm. In an innovative approach the research also analyses the coverage of Kaepernick in 2020, in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a police officer.
Engaging and well researched analysis of sport and power in American culture
In the US, sports are sold as an oasis of community to a nation deeply divided. In his 2019 book The Power of Sports: Media and Spectacle in American Culture (New York University Press), Michael Serazio, a member of the Department of Communication at Boston College and an award-winning journalist, maps and critiques the cultural production of today’s lucrative, ubiquitous sports landscape. Our reviewer is Steph Doehler, and she finds his work both readable and important.
