Lauren M Burch
Biographic Data
| ID | 292482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren M Burch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren M |
| FAMILY NAME | Burch |
| SIGNATURE | BURCH L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0397-5439 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ethnographic Approaches
Emerging Ethnographical Approaches
Research Methods for Sport Management
Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Research Methods for Sport Management provides a complete introduction to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for sport management students and practitioners. Full of real-world case studies, data, and examples, and including international perspectives throughout this book to help the reader understand the challenges of research in different social and cultural contexts, this book links …
African Basketball in Photographs
The purpose of this research was to examine how the BAL utilizes Instagram in presenting the league and promoting its players. The researchers used a content analysis method to examine the posts on the account. They found that the BAL primarily used Instagram to post-game highlights and league news rather than post about sponsors or corporate social responsibility activities. It appeared that the BAL featured athletes based on success, rather tha…
The Framing of ‘Playing Through the Pain’ in the Media
Analgesic medication (i.e., painkillers) provides a legal method for athletes to compete through pain. Masking injury presents the risk of injury exacerbation as well as potential organ damage, long-term musculoskeletal conditions, and dependence. The framing of elite athletes using medication to compete through injury could influence the attitudes and behaviors of other sportspersons including junior and recreational participants. This research …
On the “Basketball Africa League”
The inaugural season of the National Basketball Association–supported Basketball Africa League (BAL) featured 12 teams from the African continent, competing in a Champions League-style competition. This brand-new professional endeavor featured player rosters mandated to feature a certain number of players from each of the countries in which the individual teams were based, with rosters also including a small number of foreign players. Proceeding …
Female athletes find a place for expression on Instagram
Mainstream US media coverage of female athletes has decreased in recent years, but a viable alternative for these athletes to increase exposure is engagement through social media. Social media offer female athletes the ability to present a preferred image directly to fans, while also contradicting traditional gendered depictions. Utilizing self-presentation as a conceptual framework, this exploratory study sought to examine how the top ten most f…
The Youth Olympic Games
Through the content analytic method, this chapter examines the external and internal media coverage devoted to the two inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) events in 2010 and 2012. The conceptualized dimensions of media salience in agenda setting research was employed in the study, as mainstream external media (newspaper) and internal new media outlets were examined to determine the amount and type of coverage devoted to the YOG. There have been n…
Fragments of us, fragments of them
International sporting events often lead people to define protagonists and antagonists in the simplest of terms: the in-group is the home-nation team and the out-group is any other nation attempting to thwart the potential success of the home nation. This analysis involves the classification of 7498 comments rendered via the social media platform Twitter during the four 2014 FIFA World Cup matches involving the United States. Contrary to many oth…
A Shift in Set
The purpose of this study was to determine whether agenda setting was present on Twitter during the 2012 London Olympics. In order to analyze the presence of agenda setting, tweets from the @London2012 account and tweets containing #London2012 were analyzed. The @London2012 account served as the news outlet, while tweets containing #London2012 served as the unit of analysis to determine whether agenda setting was present. A content analysis of th…
Choosing Between the One-Way or Two-Way Street
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships promoted by professional athletes on Twitter utilizing the theoretical framework of parasocial interaction (PSI). Specifically, this study was a content analysis that examined professional athlete tweets in order to determine whether they predominately promoted social or parasocial relationships. The study also explored with whom athletes were engaging in social interaction as well as the…
A Shift in Set
The purpose of this study was to determine whether agenda setting was present on Twitter during the 2012 London Olympics. In order to analyze the presence of agenda setting, tweets from the @London2012 account and tweets containing #London2012 were analyzed. The @London2012 account served as the news outlet, while tweets containing #London2012 served as the unit of analysis to determine whether agenda setting was present. A content analysis of th…
Fragments of us, fragments of them
International sporting events often lead people to define protagonists and antagonists in the simplest of terms: the in-group is the home-nation team and the out-group is any other nation attempting to thwart the potential success of the home nation. This analysis involves the classification of 7498 comments rendered via the social media platform Twitter during the four 2014 FIFA World Cup matches involving the United States. Contrary to many oth…
Choosing Between the One-Way or Two-Way Street
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships promoted by professional athletes on Twitter utilizing the theoretical framework of parasocial interaction (PSI). Specifically, this study was a content analysis that examined professional athlete tweets in order to determine whether they predominately promoted social or parasocial relationships. The study also explored with whom athletes were engaging in social interaction as well as the…
On the “Basketball Africa League”
The inaugural season of the National Basketball Association–supported Basketball Africa League (BAL) featured 12 teams from the African continent, competing in a Champions League-style competition. This brand-new professional endeavor featured player rosters mandated to feature a certain number of players from each of the countries in which the individual teams were based, with rosters also including a small number of foreign players. Proceeding …
Choosing Between the One-Way or Two-Way Street
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships promoted by professional athletes on Twitter utilizing the theoretical framework of parasocial interaction (PSI). Specifically, this study was a content analysis that examined professional athlete tweets in order to determine whether they predominately promoted social or parasocial relationships. The study also explored with whom athletes were engaging in social interaction as well as the…
A Shift in Set
The purpose of this study was to determine whether agenda setting was present on Twitter during the 2012 London Olympics. In order to analyze the presence of agenda setting, tweets from the @London2012 account and tweets containing #London2012 were analyzed. The @London2012 account served as the news outlet, while tweets containing #London2012 served as the unit of analysis to determine whether agenda setting was present. A content analysis of th…
The Youth Olympic Games
Through the content analytic method, this chapter examines the external and internal media coverage devoted to the two inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) events in 2010 and 2012. The conceptualized dimensions of media salience in agenda setting research was employed in the study, as mainstream external media (newspaper) and internal new media outlets were examined to determine the amount and type of coverage devoted to the YOG. There have been n…
Fragments of us, fragments of them
International sporting events often lead people to define protagonists and antagonists in the simplest of terms: the in-group is the home-nation team and the out-group is any other nation attempting to thwart the potential success of the home nation. This analysis involves the classification of 7498 comments rendered via the social media platform Twitter during the four 2014 FIFA World Cup matches involving the United States. Contrary to many oth…
Female athletes find a place for expression on Instagram
Mainstream US media coverage of female athletes has decreased in recent years, but a viable alternative for these athletes to increase exposure is engagement through social media. Social media offer female athletes the ability to present a preferred image directly to fans, while also contradicting traditional gendered depictions. Utilizing self-presentation as a conceptual framework, this exploratory study sought to examine how the top ten most f…
On the “Basketball Africa League”
The inaugural season of the National Basketball Association–supported Basketball Africa League (BAL) featured 12 teams from the African continent, competing in a Champions League-style competition. This brand-new professional endeavor featured player rosters mandated to feature a certain number of players from each of the countries in which the individual teams were based, with rosters also including a small number of foreign players. Proceeding …
The Framing of ‘Playing Through the Pain’ in the Media
Analgesic medication (i.e., painkillers) provides a legal method for athletes to compete through pain. Masking injury presents the risk of injury exacerbation as well as potential organ damage, long-term musculoskeletal conditions, and dependence. The framing of elite athletes using medication to compete through injury could influence the attitudes and behaviors of other sportspersons including junior and recreational participants. This research …
Ethnographic Approaches
Emerging Ethnographical Approaches
Research Methods for Sport Management
Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Research Methods for Sport Management provides a complete introduction to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for sport management students and practitioners. Full of real-world case studies, data, and examples, and including international perspectives throughout this book to help the reader understand the challenges of research in different social and cultural contexts, this book links …
African Basketball in Photographs
The purpose of this research was to examine how the BAL utilizes Instagram in presenting the league and promoting its players. The researchers used a content analysis method to examine the posts on the account. They found that the BAL primarily used Instagram to post-game highlights and league news rather than post about sponsors or corporate social responsibility activities. It appeared that the BAL featured athletes based on success, rather tha…
Sociology (8 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (7 works) · Advertising (6 works) · Business (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (5 works) · Athletes (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Geography (4 works)