Sports fans as crisis communicators on social media websites

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• 作者：Natalie A. Brown ; ^{nbrown25@crimson.ua.edu} ; Andrew C. Billings
• 关键词：Sports communication ; Social media ; Crisis communication
• 刊名：Public Relations Review
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：March, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：39
• 期：1
• 页码：74-81
• 全文大小：317 K

文摘

Previous research has analyzed how organizations publicly respond in crisis situations. This study addresses a sports crisis, the University of Miami NCAA investigation, as an avenue for exploring how fans become surrogates for organizational crisis responses via the social media entity, Twitter. Using strategy for reputation repair, analysis of 75 highly identified Miami fans with over 42,000 Twitter followers shows that fans were most likely to engage in (a) ingratiation, (b) reminder, (c) attack the accuser, and (d) divert attention as primary methods of coping with the scandal. New methods for reputation repair were also found within the analysis and implications for organizations, academic institutions, sports research, and crisis communication theory are articulated.