{"id":4118,"date":"2023-03-24T13:31:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.utexas.edu\/black-male-education-research\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2023-03-24T13:31:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T18:31:07","slug":"posting-more-than-just-a-black-square-national-collegiate-athletic-association-student-athletes-perceptions-of-the-athletic-departments-role-in-social-media-racia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/posting-more-than-just-a-black-square-national-collegiate-athletic-association-student-athletes-perceptions-of-the-athletic-departments-role-in-social-media-racia\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPosting More than Just a Black Square\u201d: National Collegiate Athletic Association Student-Athletes\u2019 Perceptions of the Athletic Department\u2019s Role in Social Media, Racial Justice, and the Black Lives Matter Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bunch, N. &amp; Cianfrone, B. A. (2022). \u201cPosting More than Just a Black Square\u201d: National Collegiate Athletic Association Student-Athletes\u2019 Perceptions of the Athletic Department\u2019s Role in Social Media, Racial Justice, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. <em>Communication and Sport, 10<\/em>(6), 1023\u20131052. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/21674795221091814\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/21674795221091814<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/span> There is a rise in athletes and sports organizations utilizing social media activism to discuss social injustices. Social media staff are tasked with communicating such messages, often with little insight into how it impacts their athletes. Empirical research is necessary to understand the perspectives of athletes to inform best practices for the staff. The purpose of this study was to assess college student-athletes\u2019 perceptions of their athletic departments\u2019 involvement in promoting racial justice and the Black Lives Matter movement on social media. We surveyed 273 student-athletes from 40 universities for their perspectives. Quantitatively, we explored four factors: affective responses to the posts, perceived conflict, the role of the athletic department in using social media to discuss the topic, and the perceived qualifications of the athletic department to post about the topic. MANOVA revealed Black student-athletes were significantly more likely to believe that it was the athletic department\u2019s role to address racial justice than their non-Black counterparts, with no significant differences in the other three factors. Qualitatively, student-athletes\u2019 reactions were classified into three themes: social activism communication strategy, strategies to develop race conscious culture, and challenges to social media activism. Athletic department staff can utilize the findings to implement a strategy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Article Link:<\/strong><\/span> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/21674795221091814<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference:\u00a0Bunch, N. &amp; Cianfrone, B. A. (2022). \u201cPosting More than Just a Black Square\u201d: National Collegiate Athletic Association Student-Athletes\u2019 Perceptions of the Athletic Department\u2019s Role in Social Media, Racial Justice, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. Communication and Sport, 10(6), 1023\u20131052. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/21674795221091814 Abstract: There is a rise in athletes and&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/posting-more-than-just-a-black-square-national-collegiate-athletic-association-student-athletes-perceptions-of-the-athletic-departments-role-in-social-media-racia\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"underline\">read more<\/span>&nbsp;<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}