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Self-Presentation in the Sport Industry : = An Analysis of Professional Athletes' Twitter Profile Photographs.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Self-Presentation in the Sport Industry :/
Reminder of title:	An Analysis of Professional Athletes' Twitter Profile Photographs.
Author:	Lee, Ju Young.
Description:	1 online resource (181 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-09A(E).
Subject:	Sports Management. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355856743

Self-Presentation in the Sport Industry : = An Analysis of Professional Athletes' Twitter Profile Photographs.
Lee, Ju Young.

Self-Presentation in the Sport Industry :An Analysis of Professional Athletes' Twitter Profile Photographs. - 1 online resource (181 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

Studies (e.g., Geurin-Eagleman & Burch, 2016) have found that athletes use social media for a variety of reasons, ranging from promoting themselves to interacting with fans. Athletes who engage in social media have an opportunity to present their respective images in numerous ways. One strategy is through the use of profile photographs, an option that is provided by various social networking sites. Social media profile photographs are important in an online self-presentation context (Siibak, 2010), and, as such, users attempt to construct positive self-images through such source publicity opportunities (Tsou et al., 2016). The current study utilized the content analysis method to examine professional athletes' Twitter profile photographs. In particular, the investigation involved analyses of the online self-presentations of male and female professionals (N = 871) in six prominent leagues: Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), National Basketball Association (NBA), Women's Tennis Association (WTA), Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour, and Professional Golfers Association (PGA) Tour. Furthermore, the study analyzed the face-ism phenomenon for gender (e.g., Cheek, 2016) and a content analysis was used to evaluate the Twitter profile images of professional athletes from the WNBA (n = 61), NBA (n = 399), LPGA Tour (n = 58), PGA Tour (n = 133), WTA (n = 96), and ATP (n = 124).

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355856743Subjects--Topical Terms:

1180497
Sports Management.
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Electronic books.

Self-Presentation in the Sport Industry : = An Analysis of Professional Athletes' Twitter Profile Photographs.
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