I just posted a podcast about athletes having social media clauses in their contracts, please take a listen.
Here is the link to the podcast:
http://soundcloud.com/megan-hossler/comm-497d-podcast-assignment1
Here is a link to the article that I reference in the podcast:
http://sports.espn.go.com/action/news/story?id=6175659
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Off the Court Fouls
After talking about all the ways that athletes can improve the way that use social media properly, I thought that I'd take some time to talk about how if social media is abused it can have some dire consequences. After poking around on the Mashable website, I came across a video describing the Top 10 Athlete Gaffes Aided by Social Media. So I thought I'd talk about some of the best of the worst? or is it worst of the worst?
After the tsunami in Japan, WMBA New York Liberty player Cappie Pondexter (@cappa23) tried to offer a holy explanation to the natural disaster by tweeting the following tweets:
"What if God was tired of the way they were treating their own people in their own country. Idk guys he makes no mistakes."
"u just never knw! They did peral harbor so u can't expect anything less."
Rashard Mendenhall also had one of his own Twitter blunders. On the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack of 9/11 Mendenhall had his own theory about the attacks tweeting:
"@dkeller23 We'll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style"
These are just some of the examples of the exact reasons why athletes need some one coaching them off the court about how to use social media. There are lots of fans (especially young ones) that look to athletes for guidance, or as role models and that is exactly why they should monitor what they say on such a public sphere. I'm not saying that Pondexter or Mendenhall cannot have these beliefs but they should not be using social media to make these comments. It's a price that comes with being such a public figure.
Here's the link to the Mashable Top 10 Athlete Gaffes Aided by Social Media video that inspired this post: http://mashable.com/2011/12/08/ten-athlete-gaffes-aided-by-social-media/
After the tsunami in Japan, WMBA New York Liberty player Cappie Pondexter (@cappa23) tried to offer a holy explanation to the natural disaster by tweeting the following tweets:
"What if God was tired of the way they were treating their own people in their own country. Idk guys he makes no mistakes."
"u just never knw! They did peral harbor so u can't expect anything less."
Rashard Mendenhall also had one of his own Twitter blunders. On the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack of 9/11 Mendenhall had his own theory about the attacks tweeting:
"@dkeller23 We'll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style"
These are just some of the examples of the exact reasons why athletes need some one coaching them off the court about how to use social media. There are lots of fans (especially young ones) that look to athletes for guidance, or as role models and that is exactly why they should monitor what they say on such a public sphere. I'm not saying that Pondexter or Mendenhall cannot have these beliefs but they should not be using social media to make these comments. It's a price that comes with being such a public figure.
Here's the link to the Mashable Top 10 Athlete Gaffes Aided by Social Media video that inspired this post: http://mashable.com/2011/12/08/ten-athlete-gaffes-aided-by-social-media/
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