EVENT: Football as a Reflection of American Culture

We'd like to invite you (and your students) to watch the next BagNews Salon: Unnecessary Roughness: Football as a Reflection of American Culture on Jan 27th, the Sunday before the Super Bowl. The webinar will focus on a broad range of themes, including power and violence, commercialism, patriotism, militarism and gender roles.  As usual, the discussion will revolve around a 9 picture photo edit and also deal with media and visual framing.

Co-sponsored by The International Association for Communication and Sport (IACS), the Salon features 4 great sports scholars -- Mike Butterworth, Dan Grano, Marie Hardin and Tom Oates -- and two of the best photojournalists and sports shooters in the business: Ken Jarecke and Scott Strazzante. The vitals are below. We hope you can watch as well as participate via Twitter!

Date: Sunday, January 27th 

Time: at 1pm EST/10am PST for 90 minutes

Title: "Unnecessary Roughness: Football as a Reflection of American Culture in News Photos and Media Images": Held the Sunday before the Super Bowl, the webinar will focus on a broad range of themes, including power and violence, commercialism, patriotism, militarism and gender roles. 

Where:  TUNE IN TO THE LIVE BROADCAST: The BagNewsSalon will be broadcast live, via Google HangOut, on the BagNews website. Just come to this blog post http://bit.ly/BagSalonFootball at 1 pm EST.

Viewer Engagement: We'll also be encouraging viewer involvement via Twitter. @BagNewsNotes Hashtag: #BagSalon

Facebook Invite: http://www.facebook.com/events/493353160708470/

More info:  http://bit.ly/BagSalonFootball


Moderator:

Michael Butterworth, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Bowling Green State University.  

Panelists:

Dan Grano: Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. 
Marie Hardin: Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Communications at Penn State University.  Marie is also Associate Director of the Curley Center for Sports Journalism.  

Ken Jarecke: photojournalist and author of Husker Game Day 2010.

Tom Oates: Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication and the Department of American Studies at the University of Iowa. 

Scott Strazzante: Pulitzer prize winning photojournalist for the Chicago Tribune.

Host: Michael Shaw, Publisher, BagNewsNotes. Producer: Teresa Mahoney.