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- Title
Linsanity: The Construction of (Asian) Identity in an Online New York Knicks Basketball Forum.
- Authors
Kurylo, Anastacia
- Abstract
For one month, point guard Jeremy Lin reached celebrity status in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the United States. Considering that Lin was overlooked for the majority of his young career and that he is Asian-American, a minority in American professional basketball, his rise to fame was a surprise for many New York Knicks fans. Yet, these fans were, at least in part, responsible for creating the phenomenon that was known most commonly as Linsanity. Therefore, Linsanity provides a unique opportunity to study identity construction. Taking a social construction approach, this study answers the following questions: What identity was constructed for Jeremy Lin during Linsanity? What role do stereotypical representations of Asians play in this construction? What are the implications of Lin's identity construction for understanding identity? What role do social media play in the construction of identity?
- Subjects
UNITED States; POINT guards (Basketball); LIN, Jeremy, 1988-; FAME; NATIONAL Basketball Association; ASIAN Americans; STEREOTYPES
- Publication
China Media Report Overseas, 2013, Vol 9, Issue 2, p98
- ISSN
1557-1351
- Publication type
Article