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| Blog Name: | ...Because I Played Sports |
| Url: | http://www.becauseiplayedsports.com |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | sports, women, female |
| Description: | The goal of …Because I Played Sports is to bring a voice to women’s sports online. As former athletes, we promise to do what we can to bring as much as we can to achieve gender equality in editorial coverage of contemporary female athletics. We’re here to vocalize what many sports editors are ignorantly missing… females. |
| Popularity: | 20 Followers |
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What can Twitter’s geotagging do for sports?
Shaq Tweets at fan using Twitter's new Geotagging. Photo credit: http://myloc.me/show.php?id=1kwf0 This week, Twitter launched their Geolocation API, giving users the option to have their messages contain their exact locations.
Shaq Tweets at fan using Twitter's new Geotagging. Photo credit: http://myloc.me/show.php?id=1kwf0 This week, Twitter launched their Geolocation API, giving users the option to have their messages contain their exact locations.
The basics: Online advertising (in sports)
Photo credit: dotperformance.com This blog post is part of my ongoing weekly series discussing the role of social media and female athletics. It’s also a class requirement for a course I’m taking at John’s Hopkins University. This week, we read Best Practices for Political Advert
Photo credit: dotperformance.com This blog post is part of my ongoing weekly series discussing the role of social media and female athletics. It’s also a class requirement for a course I’m taking at John’s Hopkins University. This week, we read Best Practices for Political Advert
Elizabeth Lambert Spurs Facebook Interest
On Friday, we all saw the below video of New Mexico professional soccer player Elizabeth Lambert, who astonishingly displayed unsportsmanlike conduct in a game against Brigham Young University. (She’s since been suspended indefinitely from the league). The cultural fascination with violence displayed by women in sports is nothing new. The 2008 WNBA fights gave the league more attention than they’ve ever gotten. And we all know how upset everyone got when
On Friday, we all saw the below video of New Mexico professional soccer player Elizabeth Lambert, who astonishingly displayed unsportsmanlike conduct in a game against Brigham Young University. (She’s since been suspended indefinitely from the league). The cultural fascination with violence displayed by women in sports is nothing new. The 2008 WNBA fights gave the league more attention than they’ve ever gotten. And we all know how upset everyone got when
The power of the telephone: feminism, sports and social change
Billie Jean King. Photo credit: Blog.taragana.com/sports I’ve been blogging the past couple of weeks about social media and its impact upon women in sport – mainly due to my own personal interests but also to fulfill a class requirement. This week, I’m compelled to change it up a little big and bring us back to a time before the Internet and social media, a time
Billie Jean King. Photo credit: Blog.taragana.com/sports I’ve been blogging the past couple of weeks about social media and its impact upon women in sport – mainly due to my own personal interests but also to fulfill a class requirement. This week, I’m compelled to change it up a little big and bring us back to a time before the Internet and social media, a time
“We The Media” of female sports
"We The Media" by Dan Gillmor / Photo credit: wethemedia.oreilly.com This blog post is part of my ongoing weekly series discussing the role of social media and female athletics. My latest reading is We The Media, by Dan Gillmor, who will be joining my class via Skype tonight.
"We The Media" by Dan Gillmor / Photo credit: wethemedia.oreilly.com This blog post is part of my ongoing weekly series discussing the role of social media and female athletics. My latest reading is We The Media, by Dan Gillmor, who will be joining my class via Skype tonight.
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