CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic examines
the central role of mediain constructing an entangled relationship between chronic traumatic …

Since the early 2000s media attention has focused on professional football and chronic
traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative type of traumatic brain injury. The multiple …

This article investigates how media discourses are sites for multiple “becomings” of chronic
traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurobiological condition associated with repetitive …

Abstract The 2013 National Football League season opened with the sport's concussion
crisis high on the media agenda. At the same time, many outlets reporting on the crisis also …

From research regarding fictional narratives, we have some evidence that moral
perspectives can predict exposure to certain media. McCarty and Shrum (1993) found that …

When COVID-19 enveloped sport, it presented SportsCenter, ESPN's primary news vehicle,
with an unexpected and ironic form of “March Madness,” with basketball as the sporting …

Football player safety, specifically concussions, has been a growing area of debate in US
mainstream media. Whereas many of these discussions are centered on the health effects …

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a medical diagnosis that has largely come to
define sports'“concussion crisis.” Scientific definitions typically describe CTE as a …

Although much has been said about football concussions in the media, academic inquiry
into the National Football League's (NFL) strategies for containing critique and shaping …

Traumatic brain injury in sports, once considered an injury you could" rub some dirt on" and
get back in the game after, has risen to the level of a public health epidemic over the past …