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Noah Brown

Ms. Jizi

UWRT 1104

13 November 17

Annotated Bibliography

Bireline, Garrett M. Social Media in Sports: A Phenomenological Study of Athletes and Online

Communication. 2014.

Communication in professional sports is going towards social media accounts today.

Social media is where professional athletes go to express their feelings and interact with fans. It

also has a negative impact on the athletes because of the reporters who go and stalk their

accounts and report anything that seems out of the ordinary from that athlete.

This article helped me get information on how athletes use social media as a platform to

express not only their personal issues but issues around the world. Social media is being used to

conduct interviews with professional athletes which in the near future might change how I will

eventually do my job on a daily basis. I might not have to go to the arena to interview and ask

questions to an athlete, they might be facetiming me or livestreaming into a service of reporters

and do it that way.

Garrett Bireline used this paper as his thesis requirement to get a degree in Sports

Management from the Liberty University. Bireline has been around sports since high school, he
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also played college soccer for four years at Bowling Green State University. Then he went on to

get his Master degree in science and sports management. He went on to be an assistant coach at

Wheaton College as well as IUPUI. In 2016 Garret Bireline accepted the head coach position for

the mens soccer team at Southern Wesleyan university where he remains today.

Communication Studies, Mass Media Concentration, B.A. Program: Communication Studies,

Mass Media Concentration, B.A. - University of North Carolina at Charlotte - Acalog

ACMS, 2017.

The website from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte that I used has

information in regards to majoring in Sports Communication and becoming a sports

communicator. This website has the classes, in depth that Students need to take in order to get a

degree in Sports Communication. This website provides me with options in terms of electives I

want to take and branch out into other majors and maybe get a minor in a different field.

This source is relevant because it shows me my path to graduating with a degree I am

eager to work for. Looking at this webpage shows me everything I need to do in order to get my

degree and I am up to the challenge. It furthers me in my inquiry by letting me plan my future

classes around this degree while still being able to take the electives I want to take.

I see this webpage as credible because The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is

home to roughly 29,000 students and all 29,000 students use the website catalog to register for

class which makes me believe it is credible. It is also credible because the classes shown on the
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webpage are the same classes my academic advisor told me I needed to take in order to get a

degree in Sports Communication.

Doyle, Alison. Starting a Career in Sports Management. The Balance, 15 Oct. 2016.

The website published by Alison Doyle provides steps to get involved in sports

communications around schools for people who are interested in becoming a sports

communicator. It gives all the job titles that go along with sports communication, which is a

many in different sports. It also gives links at the bottom to marketing tips and job search tips

which will come in handy when I start looking for a job.

When thinking about what I want to do in the sports world with my sports

communications degree, I can reach out to people on campus and try and shadow a person that

performs one of the jobs I want to do someday. This website has another list of the skills that a

sports communicator should be able to perform when on the job which gives me a good list of

things I need to focus on to become good at what I need to do for a company.

Alison Doyle is an expert in human resources. Doyle gained a degree from Indiana

University and is the founder/CEO of her website CareerToolBelt.com which is a layout for

taking steps in continuing ones career. Alison Doyle has also written three books that talk about

finding jobs and tips to finding a great job.

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Ridner, Adrian, and Ben Wilson. Sports Communications Schools: How to Choose.

Study.com, Study.com, 2016

Careers in the field of sports communication typically require no less than a bachelors

degree. Although employers are looking for potential employees that have more than a

bachelors degree, they are looking for people with work experience from either an internship or

something like a job shadowing of a position they are interested in finding a job. This website

shows a chart of the top schools for sports communication and how much they cost a semester

and the type of degree they offer which really helps me.

This helps me to start narrowing down where I want to go to graduate school to pursue

my degree in sports communications. The chart included on the website gives me a great picture

on what schools I can afford without having to start racking up on student loans. Under the chart

is has a section that helps one pick a school based on ones likes and dislikes. This website helps

me dig deeper into what schools and what actual type of sports program I want to go into based

on the cost of the schools.

The website study.com was created by two men in 2002 named Adrian Ridner and Ben

Wilson. These two created this website because they got mad about how the cost of college was

increasing while the resources were not there to learn about college so they wanted to help

college kids out. This website has statistics from The National Center for Education Statistics

and from The Bureau of Labor Statistics. Having information from two of the U.S. government

boards really makes this site credible because that is coming from the government which makes
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it accurate since they pay tons of money to get all the information. Both men graduated from Cal

Poly State University.

Sweeney, John. "Strategic Sports Communication." Journalism & Mass Communication

Quarterly. 84.3 (2007). Print.

Communication in sports is more than just verbal communication. It happens to be letters,

phone calls, memos, and text messages. Communication in an organization is always occurring

and tends to be the focus point because without communication an organization is no good.

Sports Communication helps people learn the details of what goes on in and around a sports

organization.

This article by John Sweeney is helpful to me when it comes to talking about sports

communication. It helps me see the tasks a sports communicator performs and how it relates to

sports. The things that happen behind the scenes in a sports organization tend to not make it to

the public because of how the media runs and alters the story. It helps me see just how hard it is

to understand the sports world as a whole and the level of difficulty the job is. Along with that

Sweeney also talks about the classes he took while in college that played a key role in becoming

a sports communicator.

This article by John Sweeney was peer reviewed in 2012 and has many sources included at

the end of the article which leads me to believe John Sweeney is reliable in getting relevant and

accurate sources for a good article. Sweeney is also the director of the Sports Communication
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Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sweeney has also received many

teaching awards during his career.