Using Communication Boundaries to Minimize Athlete Social Media Distractions During Events

Sport organizations regulate athletes' use of social media for many reasons including the protection of the organization's reputation. Several strategies have been introduced to minimize issues related to the negative consequences athlete social media use may present, yet whether these strategies also work to address social media distractions experienced by athletes during major sport events is not well known. Utilizing communication privacy management (CPM) theory, the purpose of the current research was to examine the aspects of social media that sport administrators perceive to be distracting to athletes and what support and management mechanisms are utilized to address such concerns during major sport events. Semistructured interviews ( N = 7) with Australian national sport organization (NSO) administrators were conducted. Sport administrators reported several aspects of social media that are perceived to distract athletes including personal and performance criticism and a fixation with social media profiles. Social media could also be used to manage athlete temperament. As a result, organizations highlighted both proactive and reactive communication boundaries and mechanisms that could be used to address concerns including content restrictions, best practice case studies, engaging in conversations, and monitoring. Opportunities for sport practitioners are described including conducting consultation sessions with athletes to better understand their needs regarding their social media use.

Moving the margins with/of methodology

Various scholars have speculated about the possible link between the Fourth Gospel and drama. Such a connection, if valid, could potentially lead to the widening of hermeneutical lenses with which the Gospel is explored. While the exegetical field of biblical performance criticism has begun to break open the hermeneutical field by introducing performative and oral elements into the conversation, an attempt to formulate a methodology for a drama analysis of the text still needs to be made. This article evaluates the possibility of reading the Fourth Gospel through a drama lens in order to explore its possible performative impact on a first-time hypothetical audience. The article experiments with possible parameters of biblical drama criticism and how the translation of the text into stage-script format could be useful in academic and ecclesial spaces. Such a translation invites new experiences with the text and an expansion of the hermeneutical spectrum to include various non-textual elements like sound and sight. Moreover, it widens the hermeneutical scope to explore the audience’s own (vulnerable) journey with the performance by taking their possible struggle(s) with the drama seriously.

Der Brief and Philemon; The Letter to Philemon

SummaryTwo academic commentaries on Philemon were published in 2017. Though they differ in many points of interpretation, Ebner and McKnight share the view that Paul was not seeking the manumission of the slave Onesimus. Both introduce performance criticism into their repertoire of analytical tools. Each could have done more to illuminate nonetheless offer solid commentaries that advance our understanding of Philemon.ZusammenfassungZwei akademische Philemon-Kommentare sind 2017 erschienen. Sie vertreten in vielen Einzelfragen unterschiedliche Standpunkte, sind sich aber einig, dass Paulus nicht die Freilassung des Sklaven Onesimus beabsichtigt. Beide bedienen sich eines neueren analytischen Ansatzes ‐ der Performanzkritik; dafür kommt in beiden die Beleuchtung des Phänomens der Sklaverei in der Antike zu kurz. Beide Kommentare bieten eine solide Auslegung, die den Philemonbrief hilfreich erschließt.RésuméDeux commentaires de niveau académique sur l’épître à Philémon ont été publiés en 2017. Tout en étant d’avis différents sur de nombreux points exégétiques, Ebner et McKnight partagent le point de vue selon lequel Paul ne cherchait pas à obtenir la manumission de l’esclave Onésime. Ces deux auteurs ajoutent la critique performative à leur répertoire d’outils analytiques. Chacun d’eux aurait pu apporter davantage d’éclairage sur le phénomène de l’esclavage dans le monde antique, mais ils fournissent néanmoins deux commentaires solides qui font progresser notre compréhension de cette épître.

Reading LXXJudith 13:1–9 as performance

The Septuagint Book of Judith and its derivatives have had an enormous influence on the history of Western Europe and the Christian church. Judith has been employed in various situations to incite violence against a perceived opposition. In this regard, this article focuses on the climax of this book (Jdt 13:1–9) as performance text. In this context, many of the insights proffered by Perry in his seminal work Insights from Performance Criticism (2016) have been expanded upon from the perspective of a Greek and/or Hellenistic environment.Contribution: The value of reading LXXJudith as performance is clearly demonstrated. The conclusion is reached that this pericope is indeed highly subversive. Suggestion is also made that, contrary to more conservative wisdom, with reference specifically to LXXJudith 13:1–9, the Judith fabula is not really reconciliatory in nature. Rather, it seems to provoke conflict between competing powers.