Ever Josue Figueroa
Biographic Data
| ID | 352065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ever Josue Figueroa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ever Josue |
| FAMILY NAME | Figueroa |
| SIGNATURE | FIGUEROA E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6202-0467 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘At this point, I have no idea’: Determining a sports journalist in the 2020s
This study utilizes interviews with 37 full-time, professional sports journalists to understand how they construct their identity. With social identity theory as a framework, the study found that access, organizational backing, and role conception represent characteristics essential to being a sports journalist (the in-group). While the journalists also identified what they considered business reporters, social media personalities, and non-object…
(Dana) White Privilege: Sports Media Coverage of Ultimate Fighting Championship Domestic Violence
This study examines the media coverage of Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White’s domestic violence, an occurrence that featured a video showing White slapping his wife. We analyzed coverage ( N = 163 articles) across major sport media platforms, conducting a critical discourse analysis that reveals a stark disparity compared with how other sports figures who have committed similar acts have been covered. Despite White’s stature, ma…
Organizing Solidarity: Newsroom Unions, Gendered Labor and Professional Identity
Will They Defend Their Own? A Critical Discourse Analysis and Comparison of Corporate News Media and NewsGuild Coverage of Journalists’ Labor Strikes
Feminist Empowerment Through Labor Organizing: In-Depth Interviews With Female Labor Union Organizers at American Newspapers
In recent years, U.S. journalists have formed labor unions to address job insecurity, benefit cuts, and wage issues. Unions have played a critical role in advancing gender equality in the newsroom. Through in-depth interviews with women involved in union organizing at American newspapers, this study shows how feminist empowerment and gender dynamics manifested through organizing activities. The findings indicate union organizing empowers women by…
The Planet’s Champion” Daniel Bryan: How WWE Uses Sport, Neoliberalism and Colorblind Ideology in Professional Wrestling Narratives
Daniel Bryan’s WWE Championship reign, from November 13, 2018, to April 7, 2019, provides an interesting case study to analyze the intersection of politics, mediated sport, neoliberalism, and colorblind ideology in professional wrestling storylines. This study conducts uses textual analysis to uncover how WWE utilized Bryan’s reign to communicate ideologies in their weekly programming. The findings suggest that Bryan’s persona as a villainous lef…
If I tweeted like that, it’s entirely possible I’d get fired”: Sports journalists discourse of Jemele Hill versus Donald Trump
This study examines sports journalists’ discourse of Jemele Hill’s Twitter comments about Donald Trump. On Sept. 11, 2017, Hill called Trump a white supremacist in a tweet. She faced immediate public backlash from Trump, the White House, and the public. Critical discourse analysis was used to study content produced by U.S. sports journalists in newspapers and sport-focused digital media platforms. The findings suggest that sports journalists prod…
A pandemic of hate: Social representations of Covid‐19 in the media
Since the COVID‐19 pandemic started, Asians, particularly those in Chinese communities, have faced increased discrimination and overt racism in addition to the virus itself. In this study, the authors examined social representations of COVID‐19 in mainstream newspapers. We evaluated 451 articles from three major publications representing three countries: China, the United States, and the United Kingdom. A qualitative thematic analysis, conducted …
The blame game: How video evidence changes narratives of misogynistic violence in sports discourse
Violence against women is prevalent both in and outside the sports world, and dozens of professional athletes have been accused, although the reactions and consequences to such accusations are not always the same. This study examines three instances of athletes committing misogynistic violence and the effect that video evidence has on sports media discourse. We look at a wide range of online media sources and print newspaper articles (n = 153) to…
The faces of local TV news in America: Youth, whiteness, and gender disparities in station publicity photos
TV news is a visual medium that requires its on-air journalists to look good, but a history of lawsuits and survey research suggests that this burden is spread unevenly. Critics charge that women are expected to look younger and sexier, and minority broadcasters are held to a White standard of beauty. This project investigated the reality behind those complaints by examining the faces of on-air journalists working for local stations in the US acc…
Faith and reason: An analysis of the homologies of Black and Blue Lives Facebook pages
Highly publicized deaths of Black men during police encounters have inspired a renewed civil rights movement originating with a Twitter hashtag, “Black Lives Matter.” Supporters of the law enforcement community quickly countered with an intervention of their own, using the slogan, “Blue Lives Matter.” This project compared the discourses of their respective Facebook groups using cultural discourse analysis that considered words, images, and their…
News organizations, ideology, and work routines: A multi-level analysis of environmental journalists
Journalism scholarship has routinely relied on the hierarchy of influences model for the conceptualization of research questions and implementation of studies. Heeding Shoemaker and Reese’s call for more ‘multi-level’ analysis, this study looks at environmental journalism as a space for a multi-level analysis. Through in-depth interviews, environmental reporters described their work routines and organizational roles. The findings from these descr…
News organizations, ideology, and work routines: A multi-level analysis of environmental journalists
Journalism scholarship has routinely relied on the hierarchy of influences model for the conceptualization of research questions and implementation of studies. Heeding Shoemaker and Reese’s call for more ‘multi-level’ analysis, this study looks at environmental journalism as a space for a multi-level analysis. Through in-depth interviews, environmental reporters described their work routines and organizational roles. The findings from these descr…
Faith and reason: An analysis of the homologies of Black and Blue Lives Facebook pages
Highly publicized deaths of Black men during police encounters have inspired a renewed civil rights movement originating with a Twitter hashtag, “Black Lives Matter.” Supporters of the law enforcement community quickly countered with an intervention of their own, using the slogan, “Blue Lives Matter.” This project compared the discourses of their respective Facebook groups using cultural discourse analysis that considered words, images, and their…
The faces of local TV news in America: Youth, whiteness, and gender disparities in station publicity photos
TV news is a visual medium that requires its on-air journalists to look good, but a history of lawsuits and survey research suggests that this burden is spread unevenly. Critics charge that women are expected to look younger and sexier, and minority broadcasters are held to a White standard of beauty. This project investigated the reality behind those complaints by examining the faces of on-air journalists working for local stations in the US acc…
If I tweeted like that, it’s entirely possible I’d get fired”: Sports journalists discourse of Jemele Hill versus Donald Trump
This study examines sports journalists’ discourse of Jemele Hill’s Twitter comments about Donald Trump. On Sept. 11, 2017, Hill called Trump a white supremacist in a tweet. She faced immediate public backlash from Trump, the White House, and the public. Critical discourse analysis was used to study content produced by U.S. sports journalists in newspapers and sport-focused digital media platforms. The findings suggest that sports journalists prod…
Faith and reason: An analysis of the homologies of Black and Blue Lives Facebook pages
Highly publicized deaths of Black men during police encounters have inspired a renewed civil rights movement originating with a Twitter hashtag, “Black Lives Matter.” Supporters of the law enforcement community quickly countered with an intervention of their own, using the slogan, “Blue Lives Matter.” This project compared the discourses of their respective Facebook groups using cultural discourse analysis that considered words, images, and their…
News organizations, ideology, and work routines: A multi-level analysis of environmental journalists
Journalism scholarship has routinely relied on the hierarchy of influences model for the conceptualization of research questions and implementation of studies. Heeding Shoemaker and Reese’s call for more ‘multi-level’ analysis, this study looks at environmental journalism as a space for a multi-level analysis. Through in-depth interviews, environmental reporters described their work routines and organizational roles. The findings from these descr…
The faces of local TV news in America: Youth, whiteness, and gender disparities in station publicity photos
TV news is a visual medium that requires its on-air journalists to look good, but a history of lawsuits and survey research suggests that this burden is spread unevenly. Critics charge that women are expected to look younger and sexier, and minority broadcasters are held to a White standard of beauty. This project investigated the reality behind those complaints by examining the faces of on-air journalists working for local stations in the US acc…
A pandemic of hate: Social representations of Covid‐19 in the media
Since the COVID‐19 pandemic started, Asians, particularly those in Chinese communities, have faced increased discrimination and overt racism in addition to the virus itself. In this study, the authors examined social representations of COVID‐19 in mainstream newspapers. We evaluated 451 articles from three major publications representing three countries: China, the United States, and the United Kingdom. A qualitative thematic analysis, conducted …
The blame game: How video evidence changes narratives of misogynistic violence in sports discourse
Violence against women is prevalent both in and outside the sports world, and dozens of professional athletes have been accused, although the reactions and consequences to such accusations are not always the same. This study examines three instances of athletes committing misogynistic violence and the effect that video evidence has on sports media discourse. We look at a wide range of online media sources and print newspaper articles (n = 153) to…
If I tweeted like that, it’s entirely possible I’d get fired”: Sports journalists discourse of Jemele Hill versus Donald Trump
This study examines sports journalists’ discourse of Jemele Hill’s Twitter comments about Donald Trump. On Sept. 11, 2017, Hill called Trump a white supremacist in a tweet. She faced immediate public backlash from Trump, the White House, and the public. Critical discourse analysis was used to study content produced by U.S. sports journalists in newspapers and sport-focused digital media platforms. The findings suggest that sports journalists prod…
Feminist Empowerment Through Labor Organizing: In-Depth Interviews With Female Labor Union Organizers at American Newspapers
In recent years, U.S. journalists have formed labor unions to address job insecurity, benefit cuts, and wage issues. Unions have played a critical role in advancing gender equality in the newsroom. Through in-depth interviews with women involved in union organizing at American newspapers, this study shows how feminist empowerment and gender dynamics manifested through organizing activities. The findings indicate union organizing empowers women by…
The Planet’s Champion” Daniel Bryan: How WWE Uses Sport, Neoliberalism and Colorblind Ideology in Professional Wrestling Narratives
Daniel Bryan’s WWE Championship reign, from November 13, 2018, to April 7, 2019, provides an interesting case study to analyze the intersection of politics, mediated sport, neoliberalism, and colorblind ideology in professional wrestling storylines. This study conducts uses textual analysis to uncover how WWE utilized Bryan’s reign to communicate ideologies in their weekly programming. The findings suggest that Bryan’s persona as a villainous lef…
Organizing Solidarity: Newsroom Unions, Gendered Labor and Professional Identity
Will They Defend Their Own? A Critical Discourse Analysis and Comparison of Corporate News Media and NewsGuild Coverage of Journalists’ Labor Strikes
‘At this point, I have no idea’: Determining a sports journalist in the 2020s
This study utilizes interviews with 37 full-time, professional sports journalists to understand how they construct their identity. With social identity theory as a framework, the study found that access, organizational backing, and role conception represent characteristics essential to being a sports journalist (the in-group). While the journalists also identified what they considered business reporters, social media personalities, and non-object…
(Dana) White Privilege: Sports Media Coverage of Ultimate Fighting Championship Domestic Violence
This study examines the media coverage of Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White’s domestic violence, an occurrence that featured a video showing White slapping his wife. We analyzed coverage ( N = 163 articles) across major sport media platforms, conducting a critical discourse analysis that reveals a stark disparity compared with how other sports figures who have committed similar acts have been covered. Despite White’s stature, ma…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 works)