Date of Award
1-1-2016
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Organizational Unit
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Communication Studies
First Advisor
Darrin K. Hicks, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Bernadette Calafell
Third Advisor
Joshua Hanan
Fourth Advisor
Linda Bensel-Meyers
Keywords
Governmentality, Moral regulation, Rhetoric, Sports
Abstract
This dissertation investigates the findings of a congressional investigation into the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in Major League Baseball, known as the Mitchell Report. It analyzes the primary arguments presented in the report, the argument for integrity, role-models, and apology specifically, through the lens of governmentality and moral regulation. It argues that the report represents a distinct mode of governance that seeks to condemn PED use in a moralizing way. This mode of governance is characterized by its emergence from a variety of locations as opposed to the relatively simple use of the state and its legal apparatus. Importantly, one of those locations includes the individual subject who is urged to self-govern without the need of external threat or recourse. The dissertation also suggests that this mode of governance is inextricable linked to rhetoric and communication.
Publication Statement
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Rights Holder
Brian J. Schrader
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
en
File Size
130 p.
Recommended Citation
Schrader, Brian J., "It's a Whole New Ball Game: The Mitchell Report, Performance Enhancing Drugs, and Professional Sports" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1160.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1160
Copyright date
2016
Discipline
Communication, Rhetoric