Tucker Center affiliated scholar Kent Kaiser publishes and presents sport media & gender scholarship

image of Kent Kaiser, PhDTucker Center affiliated scholar Kent Kaiser, Ph.D., professor and chair, Department of Communication, University of Northwestern in St Paul, MN, recently presented a paper, “Genderlect in Context: Men’s and Women’s Final Four and Frozen Four Player Tweets,” at the 7th Annual Sport in Society Conference held at the University of Hawaii, Manoa on June 2. In addition, he has had an article, “Sports Reporters in the Twittersphere: Challenging and Breaking Down Traditional Conceptualizations of Genderlect,” accepted for publication in the journal Online Information Review as part of a special edition focusing on sport mega-events.