Sampson 1 Courtney Sampson Dr. Dietel-McLaughlin Multimedia Writing and Rhetoric 25 March 2014 Annotated Bibliography Borges, David.

"SOCIAL MEDIA: College Athletes Living the Tweet Life." New Haven Register- NEWS. New Haven Register, 31 Mar. 2012. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. Borges article on the UConn basketball team lays out an example of speech by student athletes on social media that can create controversy. Teammates tweeted their immediate confirmations of joining the team or complaints about a game lineup, both of which could stir up strong emotions and judgments about the team as a whole. I find this article vital to my research paper because it gives a concrete example of student athletes unedited broadcasts and coaches admittance that there is a certain etiquette required for those who represent their school. The assistant coach of the Huskies, Kevin Ollie, is quoted in the article, saying, You just try to watch it. It [Twitter] is a good mechanism to promote what youre promoting, talk to your friends, talk to your loved ones. But you also have to be conscious of whats going to transpire if you say anything wrong or negative (Borges), and I couldnt agree more. Theres a fine line between expressing yourself and bringing negative press that you dont want, and some questions you have to answer that you shouldnt have to answer, upon yourself.

Cooky, Cheryl. Strong Enough to be a Man, but Made a Woman: Discourses on Sport and Femininity in Sports Illustrated for Women. Fuller, Linda K., ed. Sport, Rhetoric, and

Sampson 2 Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations. 1st ed. New York: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2006. Print. This book encompasses feminism in sports, including womens ever changing roles and position in athletics and media focused on athletics. The main section I will possibly be pulling information from is titled Searching for the Female Athlete: Gender, Sports, and the Media, by Cheryl Cooky. In this section, Cooky describes the celebration of female athleticism and Girl Power, which really means, the sexualization of females who partake in sports. This section of a fairly recently published book (2006) provides some history as to when the sexualization of female athletes began. In addition, it could potentially support my argument in my research paper that female athletes are unfortunately often the focus of sexual attractiveness rather than athletic ability. This reasoning reinforces why collegiate athletes should not post, for example, a posed team picture of almost completely naked student athletes, like the University of Warwicks annual rowing club calendar pictures.

Kirpalani, Sanjay. "How Social Media Has Transformed College Football Recruiting." Bleacher Report. Bleacher Report, 10 Aug. 2013. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. While this online article discusses the issue of social media use by high school students, it focuses on its usage by recruited football players specifically, who confirm their plans to play on a certain colleges team; therefore, they are essentially collegiate athletes, and this article can still be applicable in my argument. Many of the points made by coaches who were interviewed for this article are valid for more than just incoming recruits. The article addresses the difficulty of celebrity-like athletes who, similar to peers in their age

Sampson 3 group, often post things that are harmless in their mindsexamples such as rap lyrics or inside jokes among friendsbut that set off red flags in the minds of college coaches and media members scouring a potential recruits timeline (Kirpalani). Part of my argument that there should be guidelines for collegiate and professional athletes consists of detailing the influence of their posts on social media, so I believe this article would be helpful in that area. I also am hoping to provide a plan of action to change the lack of policy in place, and this article brings up the idea of educating players how to properly post online.

Messner, Michael A. "Sports and Male Domination: The Female Athlete as Contested Ideological Terrain." Out of Play: Critical Essays on Gender and Sport. Albany: State University of New York, 2007. 31-44. Print. This book is a collection of scholarly essays, all by Messner, which discuss the many complexities of the relationship between gender and sport, including the visibility of gender role-taking at even a young age, masculinities within race, class, etc., and the masculinity of athletes and violence. The section I will be focusing on describes physiological defining qualities of male and female athletes, as well as how the gap between male and female athletic performance came to existence. I am not simply giving a variety of facts about athletic people; I am creating a base, so that I can also discuss in my research paper how the female athlete- and her body- has become a contested ideological terrain (Messner 32). There are effects by how media presents female athletes, and I will use this information to explain why I think female athletes should be

Sampson 4 especially aware of what they post on their social media and how that affects the integrity of the institution they represent.

Santovec, Mary Lou. (2013, December). Social Media and Student Athletes: Legal Issues are Quirky. Women in Higher Education, 22(12), 25-26. Santovecs discussion about the relationship between social media and student athletes addresses common approaches and arguments to how to deal with the appropriateness of their posts online. Santovec is critical of student athletes lack of caution in the process of sharing with the Internet, and presents statements made by a sports attorney and president of Sports Law Associates LLC, Janet Judge, to solidify her argument that there should be limitations set in place to protect the reputation of not only the athletes but also the institution they represent. There are many reasons why I believe that this source will be useful in my research paper. Primarily, the source is very new, confirming that it will have updated ideas and relevant arguments. This source also provides stability to my theme that there should be guidelines as far as what collegiate athletes can and cannot coach. Santovec gives examples of policies that could outline social media etiquette so as to avoid problems, such as NCAA or even team-outlined rules and training defining what is appropriate to share with the world and what is not.

Scraton, Sheila, and Anne Flintoff, eds. Gender and Sport: A Reader. London: Routledge, 2002. Print.

Sampson 5 This book is another collection of essays by various authors, all of which relate to the very general topic of females and the role they have in sports. Some of the essays I have chosen from this collection give a little bit of history on when females first got involved in sports. I think it might be beneficial to provide this history because it could give a timeline of when females began to be sexualized rather than admired for their athletic prowess. Another section of essays regards media representation of females, including newspaper coverage of womens entry into traditionally male sports. I think this could also provide more of a base on which I can draw credibility for my argument.