CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic - Paperback

by Travis R. Bell (Author), Janelle Applequist (Author), Christian Dotson-Pierson (Author)

This book examines the mediated construction of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and its rise to public and political prominence by way of its direct connection with the NFL. More broadly, this book explores how this relationship situates in and through the sports/media complex.

Author Biography

Travis R. Bell is assistant professor of digital and sports media in the Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications at the University of South Florida. Janelle Applequist is assistant professor of advertising in the Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications at the University of South Florida. Christian Dotson-Pierson is speech instructor at the University of South Carolina.