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Hyperprofessionalized and commodified : a case study examination of FBS bowl games and the utilization of football players as programmatic promotional material / Chris Corr, Richard M. Southall, Crystal Southall, Richard J. Hart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corr, Chris, author.
- Southall, Richard M., author.
- Southall, Crystal, author.
- Hart, Richard J., author.
- Series:
- SAGE business cases.
- SAGE business cases
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Football players--Economic aspects--Case studies.
- Football players.
- Television broadcasting of sports--Marketing--Case studies.
- Television broadcasting of sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Human Kinetics, Inc., 2023.
- Summary:
- Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football games are presented in a hypercommercialized manner by television broadcast networks through the targeted use of in-game graphics and corporatized content. While commercialized FBS football broadcast components have been analyzed within the frameworks of a hypercommercialized National Collegiate Athletic Association and media institutional logics, an analysis of commentator language has yet to be examined within the larger institutional field of FBS football broadcasts. Utilizing agenda setting and media framing as frameworks, this case study examined the manner in which commentators frame FBS football players as professionals in a hypercommercialized institutional setting. From a sample of 18 FBS bowl games during the 2019-20 season, discourse and thematic analysis reveal that commentators frame FBS football players in the context of their future professional opportunities (i.e., National Football League). The framing of FBS football players as professionals aligns with extant literature examining the broader institutional field of broadcast media and logics pervasive in the National Collegiate Athletic Association as an organization. The commodification of FBS football players as integral components to strategic programmatic content promoting future broadcast programming is discussed.Keywords: agenda setting, ESPN, Football Bowl Subdivision, media framing, institutional logics, commodification.
- Notes:
- Description based on XML content.
- ISBN:
- 1-0719-4637-4
- 9781071946374
- OCLC:
- 1417358705
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