"Hands up, don't shoot" or shut up and play ball? Fan-generated media views of the Ferguson Five
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2168770 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emmett L Gill, Emmett Gill (0000-0002-9033-8560, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 400-412 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1091-1359 • E-ISSN: 1540-3556 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10911359.2016.1139990 |
| OpenAlex | W2294524837 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article explores the intersection of sports and social activism in the wake of the police-involved death of Michael Brown. Traditionally, professional athletes have remained silent, or at the very best color-blind, regarding domestic social issues. It is customary for sports celebrities such as Michael Jordan to avoid compromising their status in the marketplace with politics, even when the social matter impacts males who look like them and unswervingly support their craft. Yet, in the wake of the death of Brown, several professional athletes, if only briefly, engaged in their own forms of activism. This article will implore a qualitative content analysis of mainstream media accounts and user-generated content to develop a case study on how Black professional athletes responded to police-involved deaths of Black men. In particular, the author will use the "data" to develop a case study on five St. Louis Rams athletes who staged a silent, pregame protest in the wake of the civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. The case study will include the response from the St. Louis police department and the National Football League. Fan-generated media content about the "Ferguson Five" will be used to analyze public perceptions of athlete activism. A grounded theory approach will be used to examine the immediate and intermediate prospect of civic involvement of professional athletes in social issues
Art · Athletes · Craft · Criminology · Football · League · Mainstream · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Social media · Sociology · Unrest · Visual arts · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society · Gender Studies · Law
Get That S.O.B. Off the Field
It’s Okay to be Not Okay
Posting More than Just a Black Square”
Cyber Racism Toward Black Athletes
Sports Fan Moral Reasoning Strategies in Response to an Athlete’s Controversial Political Associations
Imperialism through Virtuous Helping
A Different World
Sports, Race, Social Movements, and Social Change
Well, what was the message you got
Shut Up and Play
Ethics of patriotism
Does Protest 'Distract' Athletes From Performing? Evidence From the National Anthem Demonstrations in the National Football League
Just Do It? An Examination of Race on Attitudes Associated with Nike's Advertisement Featuring Colin Kaepernick
Content analysis
The Next M. J. or the Next O. J.? Kobe Bryant, Race, and the Absurdity of Colorblind Rhetoric
We Real Cool
Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education
Black Sexual Politics
The Practice of Qualitative Research
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
The Construction of Black Masculinity
The Linguistics of Color Blind Racism
| Citations per year | 1.86 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |