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Marie Hardin (marieh)


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Sports, Media & Society

Marie Hardin, associate director of the Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State University, takes a look at the interaction of sports coverage and U.S. culture.

Laila Ali Opens Title IX Conference
The Title IX at 40 Conference at the University of Michigan began tonight with Laila Ali's keynote address. Ali, the President of the Women's Sports Foundation, talked about role of sports in her life emphasizing the many positive benefits of participat...[Read on]
Fifth Summit on Communication and Sport: Recap and Research Review
The latest rumor, the latest fumbled play, the latest major trade; when it happens in sports, it’s likely to happen via social media. As fans become professional bloggers and Twitter becomes a source for receiving to-the-minute news, sports organiza...[Read on]
A day to remember women in sports
Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day! Today serves as a reminder of the accomplishments, contributions, and struggles of girls and women in their journey through sports and will be celebrated nationwide throughout the week. This year, the Nationa...[Read on]
Putting paralympic athletes in the spotlight
The mainstream media are still falling behind in covering disability sports and the network of resources for athletes with disability is far from perfect, but a new blog carries a promise of making things better. Athletes First: Sporting Abilities and Op...[Read on]
Penn State Controversy: Recap
Penn State students, community members, and journalists met last night in a public forum to debrief and discuss the story around Penn State in recent weeks. The discussion took place as “A Conversation About Covering Controversy," hosted by the John...[Read on]
"A Conversation About Covering Controversy" A Must-See Speaker Series Event at Penn State University on November 29
A discussion with sports journalists about recent events that have become national news at Penn State will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29, in Schwab Auditorium as the latest installment of an ongoing series conducted by the John Curley Cent...[Read on]
Acknowledging the price of college athletes
ESPN the Magazine recently teamed up with MIT researchers to determine the value of college athletes at Florida University. (The article can also be found here through ESPN’s Insider service.) The results shouldn’t be surprising to anybody who knows ...[Read on]
Tucker Center conference calls for change in media representation of female athletes
Collaboration. Dialogue. Community building. These were the mission statements that the Girls and Women in Sport and Physical Activity Conference participants committed to when they chose to gather for a full day of activities in the TCF Bank Stadium in...[Read on]
'Lacking' in teen girls' sports novels
Finding a good sports novel about teen girls has proven difficult for librarians. The genre is "severely lacking," according Erin Whiteside, a 2010 Penn State doctoral graduate and current assistant professor at the University of Tennessee.Whiteside prese...[Read on]
What the blogs are saying
First-year Penn State Ph.D student and Curley Center researcher Dunja Antunovic shared findings of a recent study on women's sports blogs at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport on Friday morning in Minneapolis.Antun...[Read on]

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