Repairing the Athlete's Image
Studies in Sports Image Restoration- Editors:
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- Publisher:
- 2012
Summary
Repairing the Athlete’s Image: Studies in Sports Image Restoration, edited by Joseph R. Blaney, Lance Lippert, and J. Scott Smith, offers twenty-one case studies and conceptual frameworks about athletes and their organizations as they attempt to mitigate the effects of malfeasance. Employing traditional Image Restoration Theory (IRT) approaches to athletic communication (and other innovative approaches), the contributors to this volume add to our understanding of which communicative strategies work best for athletes when their reputations are sullied. This comprehensive text presents case studies of varying athletes, sports, and public relations scenarios with prescriptive advice for those attempting to repair athletic reputations. The contributors variously explore such controversies and mischief as the steroids accusations lobbed at Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, the Michael Phelps marijuana controversy, the sexual misconduct of Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant, and other topical subjects in sports communication and image repair. While this book will be useful for athletes, coaches, managers, and agents in varying athletic endeavors and levels, it is also a dream collection for teachers and scholars of sports communication. The subjects examined in this study span country, gender, and popularity of sport (not to mention a healthy variety of types of accusations.) Repairing the Athlete’s Image is an essential resource for graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses in sports communication and popular culture.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2012
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-3896-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-3899-1
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 415
- Product type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Introduction: Why Sports Image Restoration and How Shall We Proceed? No access Pages 1 - 6
- 1 From the Mitchell Report to Brian McNamee: Roger Clemens’s Image Repair Discourse No access
- 2 “Big Mac” with a Side of Steroids: The Image Repair Strategies of Mark McGwire No access
- 3 Defense of an Anti-Hero: Barry Bonds’s “State of the Great Address” No access
- 4 The Image Repair Media Interview as Apologia and Antapologia: Marion Jones on the Oprah Winfrey Show No access
- 5 The Michael Phelps Saga: From Successful Olympian, to Pot Smoker Caught on Camera, to Renewed Role Model and Brand No access
- 6 Tiger Woods’s Image Repair: Could He Hit One Out of the Rough? No access
- 7 Power, Privilege, and the Surprising Absence of Repair: Kobe Bryant and Interest Convergence No access
- 8 Strategies of Silence: The John Terry Affair and the British Press No access
- 9 Bad Newz Kennels: Michael Vick and Dogfighting No access
- 10 The Failed Comedy of the NBA’s Gilbert Arenas: Image Restoration in Context No access
- 11 Plaxico Burress Takes His Best Shot No access
- 12 In the Dark at Texas Tech: News Coverage Involving the Image Repair Discourse of Mike Leach and Adam James No access
- 13 How Bobby Knight Changed His “Bad Boy” Image to Become a Media Darling No access
- 14 Belated Remorse: Serena Williams’s Image Repair Rhetoric at the 2009 U.S. Open No access
- 15 Unsports(wo)manlike Conduct: An Image Repair Analysis of Elizabeth Lambert, the University of New Mexico, and the NCAA No access
- 16 No Pepper: Apologia and Image Repair in the 2002 Labor Negotiations Between Major League Baseball and the Players Association No access
- 17 Giving Them the Ol’ Misdirection: The NCAA and the Student-Athlete No access
- 18 A Death, a Family Feud, and a Merger: The Image Repair of Teresa Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt, Inc. No access
- 19 The Puck Stops Here: The NHL’s Image Repair Strategies During the 2004-2005 Lockout No access
- 20 Celebrating Spectator Sports in America: The Centrality of Press Conferences and Media Interviews to Sports Image Repair No access
- 21 Reputation Differences between Mortification-Only and Mortification/Corrective Action Strategies Following a Transgression by a Professional Athlete No access
- Conclusion No access
- Index No access Pages 403 - 410
- About the Authors No access Pages 411 - 415
