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In this dissertation, I examine how a particular mode of thinking has come about—that is, how an increasingly number of sport management scholars have conceived of sport-based inter-/trans-actions as "consumption" and those who engage...
The research project Information, motivation, and co-creation behaviors of literary tourists and their quest for meaningful experiences explores the behaviors of travelers seeking experiences related to authors, books, or characters....
In this paper I explore the possibilities of community through sport in the context of soccer in Kansas City. Drawing from the conceptualizations of community in Esposito’s oeuvre and utilizing the ontological framework of Deleuze and...
Daily fantasy sports games have recently emerged as one of the fastest growing segments associated with the sports industry. While traditional fantasy sports have long been associated with sport consumption, daily fantasy sports allow...
Water is a natural resource with which the Global North is familiar with, but unfamiliar - conscious of its importance, but unconscious of its complexity. People with access to clean water know that they receive water in their hands or...
In two articles, this dissertation explores how collegiate gamers reproduced gender hierarchies within gaming spaces. Both chapters employ interviews with collegiate gamers from a large southeastern university. The first article (chapter...
Online discourse facilitated by information and communication technologies (ICTs) has become a vital aspect of modern political life. Such discourse is heavily valued by politicians, corporations, and other political actors, with digital...
Nature has long been a container for the desires of humankind and the stories we tell about nature are stories that render it transparent and passive. In his book, We Are the Weather Jonathan Safran Foer’s examines how eating meat is...
This two-article dissertation focuses on echo chambers, misinformation, and leadership in online social movements. Over the last decade, these topics have garnered much research and media attention. Concern for how misinformation and...
Adrienne Rich explains that the contemporary concept of the home and the domestic sphere is a cultural construct rather than an essential, inherent biological identity. She asserts that the “nineteenth- and twentieth-century ideal of the...
The mega-event, or large-scale mass event, has held an enduring level of popular and political support in modern society since their creation in the late 19th century. In the current period of intense globalization, the importance placed...
Situated at the intersection of research on writing transfer, dual coding theory, and concept mapping, this empirical research study investigates students' representation, development, and transfer of conceptual writing knowledge across...
Through three independent essays, this manuscript addresses improving civic engagement, gender equity, and diversity within organizations through three unique lenses. The first paper explores the experiences of participants from a...
Tiller and Cross observed that legal researchers “have extensively dealt with doctrine as a normative matter but have given little attention to the manner in which it actually functions, ” while social scientists “who have done important...
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