The beginning of a reckoning: An application of situational crisis communication theory and image repair to the national Women's soccer League

E Frederick, S Schmidt… - Communication & Sport, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this study was to examine the crisis of systemic sexual abuse, sexual
harassment, and misconduct in the NWSL within the frameworks of situational crisis …

Williams Racing and Dorilton Capital: Epideictic Blandness in Organizational Change

M Milford - Communication & Sport, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In 2020 the third-oldest racing team in Formula 1, Williams Racing, sold to Dorilton Capital, a
global investment group. The change was a dramatic shift in the organization's identity, from …

Examining the intersection of sport, social media, and crisis communication

EL Frederick, A Pegoraro - International Journal of …, 2023 - journals.humankinetics.com
The purpose of this commentary is to present the state of sport, social media, and crisis
communication research. Existing crisis-communication research involving athletes and …

Monsters and the Sports They Play: Squaring the Circle of Fan Allegiance and Cognitive Dissonance

AC Billings, M Hardin - Communication & Sport, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Monsters and the Sports They Play: Squaring the Circle of Fan Allegiance and Cognitive
Dissonance - Andrew C. Billings, Marie Hardin, 2024 Skip to main content Intended for …

Theories in Sport Communication Research

SKSK Yoo, M Lee, LR Smith, S Roh - Routledge Handbook of …, 2025 - taylorfrancis.com
Sport communication has emerged as a bustling academic junction between the fields of
sport and communication. It stands as an extraordinarily vibrant “battlefield” of research and …

A Bayesian framework to evaluate evidence in cases of alleged cheating with secret codes in sports

A Boonstra, R Meester - arxiv preprint arxiv:2409.08172, 2024 - arxiv.org
We develop a statistical framework to evaluate evidence of alleged cheating with illegal
signalling in sports from a forensic perspective. We explain why instead of a frequenstic …

Sport, Social Media, and Crisis Communication

E Frederick, A Pegoraro - Communication in Sport Management, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
In today's fast moving, media-rich world, both individual and organizational crises are
pervasive and omnipresent. No industry sector is immune from an emergent crisis scenario …

If you're not cheating, you're not trying: moral decision-making and rationalizations in sports

MP Pike - 2024 - repositories.lib.utexas.edu
The current study explored the cognitive processes that lead to the acceptance of cheating
behaviors, and the communication of these rationalizations. Cheating in sports is …