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CTE, Media, and the NFL

Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvTravis R. Bell,Janelle Applequist,Christian Dotson-Pierson

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CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic examines the central role of mediain constructing an entangled relationship between chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and the National Football League (NFL), challenging a predominately symbiotic sports/media complex. The authors of this book analyze more than a decade of media coverage, along with three prominent films, to unpack how media discourse resurrects CTE, a preventable degenerative brain disease linked to boxing in 1928, and subsequently frames it as a football epidemic dating back to 2005.The authors position CTE as a public health crisis, whereby media coverage of CTE and the NFL’s vigorous reliance on controversial published research by the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) Committee parallels the moral panic of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and Big Tobacco’s manufacturing of doubt through faulty science. This book argues that the continued aspiration and idolization of the NFL, and its lack of accountability for health concerns surrounding brain injuries, highlight the firm grasp of hegemonic masculinity on the ideology of American football - further problematizing media’s glorification of the sport. Scholars of sports media, health communication, and general media studies will find this book particularly useful to discuss longitudinal effects of media framing centered on critical health risks in sport and the challenge of translating accurate scientific knowledge to the public domain.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-09-29
Mått153 x 232 x 12 mm
Vikt295 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury Studies in Health Communication
Antal sidor182
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498570589

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Chapter 1: Football and the Brain: A Historical PerspectiveChapter 2: Framing Global Epidemics: A Case Study of HIV/AIDS and Big TobaccoChapter 3: Hegemonic Masculinity: The Foundation of American Football CultureChapter 4: From Punch-Drunk to CTE: The Evolution of a Brain DiseaseChapter 5: Mediating Science: The Framing of CTEChapter 6: Beyond the Headlines: CTE and the NFLChapter 7: Film and Football: Creation and Critique of ViolenceChapter 8: It’s a “Guy Thing”: Mediated Misconceptions

CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic serves as an intriguing introduction to a mysterious disease called CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). These authors address the ways that the media have framed the public health crisis. The book is written in an informative and interesting way, making it a text readers can readily absorb. Furthermore, this book would be suitable and helpful for classes engaging in sport communication, as well as media and public relations. The book permits readers to expand their knowledge regarding contemporary health issues linked to football and other sports that could lead to brain injury.

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