Please answer all questions below. Each individual question can be answered in two double-spaced, typed pages, or less (about 500 words per question).
1) Discuss some of the considerations that go into creating/selecting a good sports-related photograph.
2) Discuss how sports magazine issues such as the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, create an "ideal subject position", and work/do other things to ensure a preferred reading.
3) In class, we talked about how being s sports star and being a celebrity might be different things. Discuss how this might be so, and explain potential elements that might explain how sports stars transition into more popular celebrityhood. (class material bellow)
4) Describe ways that nationalism might be constructed/created in the sports media.
5) Discuss the concept of globalization, and how sports-related advertising allows global corporations to be from "everywhere, but nowhere" at the same time (how they're local and global).
6) Discuss some of the ways that particular visions of gender (femininity OR masculinity) are created and circulate within the sports media [you only need to do one or the other].
7) Drawing on class materials, discuss how the sports media ties into stereotypes of race/ethnicity.