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Research InterestsMy research interests focus primarily in four areas, all centered on the role of sports in American culture and history.
As of July 1, 2024, I have authored or co-authored 48 peer-reviewed articles, 3 textbooks, 12 book chapters, and 91 refereed conference presentations. A fourth edition of a Sport Public Relations textbook on which I am co-author will be published in 2025. |
Select Journal Articles |
Dittmore, S. & Kim, K. (2022). Nationalistic media obsession with Olympic medal counts: The case of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 4, 1-4.
Dittmore, S. W. (2020). George Scales and the making of Junior Gilliam in Baltimore, 1946. The National Pastime, published by the Society for American Baseball Research, 34-37. Wilkerson, T. A., Stokowski, S., Fridley, A., Dittmore, S. W., & Bell, C. (2020). Barriers of Black football student-athletes in seeking mental health services. [special issue] Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, 55-81. Turk, M. R., Stokowski, S., & Dittmore, S. W. (2019). “Don’t be open or tell anyone”: Inclusion of sexual minority college athletes. Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, 564-589. Wood, E. A., Dittmore, S. W., Stokowski, S., & Li, B. (2019). Division I athletic director perceptions of requisite skills and experiences necessary for their positions. Journal of Higher Education Athletics and Innovation, 1(5), 102-122. Li, B., Dittmore, S. W., Scott, O., Lo, W-J., & Stokowski, S. (2019). Why we follow: Examining motivational differences in following sport organizations on Twitter and Weibo. Sport Management Review, 22(3), 335-347. Li, B., Scott, O., & Dittmore, S. W. (2018). Twitter and Olympics: Exploring factors which impact fans following American Olympic governing bodies. International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship, 19, 370-383. Dittmore, S. W. & Li, B. (2017). Serve and volley: A political economy view of the Tennis Channel’s 6-year carriage battle. Journal of Sports Media, 12(2), 103-123. Dittmore, S. W. & Hutchins, B. (2017). Privilege over innovation: Sports broadcasting, mobile television and the case of Aereo. Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport, 27, 3-18. Dittmore, S. W. (2016). College athletic departments as media organizations, and the regulation of content: Issues for the digital age. Marquette Sports Law Review, 26(2), 713-733. Mahony, D. F., Hums, M. A., Andrew, D. P. S., & Dittmore, S. W. (2010). Organizational justice in sport. Sport Management Review, 13(2), 91-105. Dittmore, S. W., Mahony, D. F., Andrew, D. P. S., & Hums, M. A. (2009). Examining fairness perceptions of financial resource allocation in U.S. Olympic sport. Journal of Sport Management, 23(4), 429-456. |
Select Book Chapters |
Stoldt, G. C., Dittmore, S. W., & Pedersen, P. M. (2022). Communication in the sport industry. In P. M. Pedersen, & L. Thibault (Eds.). Contemporary Sport Management (7th ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
Dittmore S. W. & Stokowski, S. E. (2020). Interviews. In D. P. S. Andrew, P. M. Pedersen, & C. D. McEvoy. Research Methods and Design in Sport Management (2nd ed.). (pp. 99-110). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. Dittmore, S. W. (2019). Sport programming as a public good: A complicated Congressional legacy. In G. G. Armfield, J. P. McGuire, & A. Earnhardt (Eds.). (pp. 3-21). ESPN and the Changing Sports Media Marketplace. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. Part of Communication, Sport, and Society series edited by L. Wenner, A. Billings, & M. Hardin. Dittmore, S. W., & McCarthy, S. T. (2014). Sports marketing and new media. In A.C. Billings & M. Hardin (Eds.). Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media. (pp. 165-176). Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge. Dittmore, S. W., & Fields, T. E. (2013). Content, copyright and carriage: Issues for sports media rights in the digital age. In P. M. Pedersen (Ed.). Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication. (pp. 228-237). New York: Routledge. |