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Toni Bruce

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Toni Bruce's Degrees

Bachelors Sociology University of Auckland
Masters Sociology University of Auckland
PhD Sociology University of New Zealand

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According to Wikipedia, Toni Bruce is a New Zealand sociology academic, specialising in the sociology of sport. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland. She gained her Masters and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois in the USA. She previously worked at the University of New Hampshire University of Canberra and University of Waikato . While teaching at the University of Auckland Bruce participated in many fields of research. Her main topics involve sports media, gender issues, nationalism, race/ethnicity and disability. Bruce is an expert in many different topics including journalism, media analysis and theory, and the impacts of sociological aspects of identity on people's experiences. She supervises students throughout the Masters and the Doctorate programs that include her main topics of research.

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Toni Bruce's Published Works

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Bending the Rules (2003) (222)
New Rules for New Times: Sportswomen and Media Representation in the Third Wave (2016) (172)
Marking the boundaries of the ‘normal’ in televised sports: the play-by-play of race (2004) (108)
Sportswomen and Social Media: Bringing Third-Wave Feminism, Postfeminism, and Neoliberal Feminism Into Conversation (2017) (87)
Reflections on Communication and Sport (2013) (84)
Unique crisis response strategies in sports public relations: Rugby league and the case for diversion (2008) (61)
Assessing the sociology of sport: On media and representations of sportswomen (2015) (55)
¿The Way New Zealanders Would Like to See Themselves¿: Reading White Masculinity via Media Coverage of the Death of Sir Peter Blake (2005) (51)
UP FRONT AND BEYOND THE CENTRE LINE (1999) (50)
Us and them: the influence of discourses of nationalism on media coverage of the Paralympics (2014) (41)
AUDIENCE FRUSTRATION AND PLEASURE (1998) (40)
The Power of Stereotypes: Anchoring Images Through Language in Live Sports Broadcasts (2010) (40)
Cathy Freeman: the quest for Australian identity (2002) (37)
Women, sport and the media: A complex terrain (2008) (34)
"Wandering and Wondering": Theory and Representation in Feminist Physical Cultural Studies (2011) (30)
Postmodernism and the possibilities for writing vital sport texts. (1998) (27)
Rejuvenating Sport Socialization Research (1991) (23)
Reclaiming our voices: Sportswomen and social media (2014) (23)
Never Let the Bastards See You Cry (2000) (22)
Winning Space in Sport: The Olympics in the New Zealand Sports Media (2009) (22)
Blurring the boundaries of sports public relations: National stereotypes as sport announcers’ public relations tools (2008) (21)
Constructing the Other: News media representations of a predominantly ‘brown’ community in New Zealand (2017) (21)
(Not) a stadium of four million: speaking back to dominant discourses of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand (2013) (21)
Speaking the Unspoken: Racism, Sport and Maori (2010) (19)
Rethinking global sports migration and forms of transnational, cosmopolitan and diasporic belonging: a case study of international yachtsman Sir Peter Blake (2009) (17)
'She's Not One of Us': Cathy Freeman and the Place of Aboriginal People in Australian National Culture (2009) (17)
Supportive or Hostile? Teasing or Professional? Women Sportswriters Categorize Locker Room Interaction (2002) (16)
Fresh Prince of Colonial Dome: Indigenous Players in the AFL (2005) (16)
A Spy in the House of Rugby: Living (in) the emotional spaces of nationalism and sport (2014) (15)
Key Themes in the Research on Media Coverage of Women’s Sport (2010) (13)
The Power of the Local in Sports Broadcasting: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Rugby Commentary (2009) (10)
The Olympics and Indigenous Peoples: Australia (2012) (10)
Sportswomen at the Olympics (2010) (10)
New Zealand: Intersections of Nationalism and Gender in Olympics Newspaper Coverage (2010) (9)
Sportswomen and Social Media: Bringing Third-Wave, Postfeminism and Neoliberal Feminism into Conversation, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Vol. 41(5) 359–383. Title: Sportswomen and Social Media: Bringing Third-Wave, Postfeminism and Neoliberal Feminism into Conversation (2018) (9)
Ethical Explorations: A Tale of Preparing a Conference Paper (2010) (8)
The Juggling Act: A Phenomenological Study of Gifted and Talented Girls’ Experiences With Facebook (2016) (8)
POSTMODERN CHALLENGES: RECOGNIZING MULTIPLE STANDARDS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH (1994) (7)
Young people, media sport and the physical education curriculum. (2005) (7)
Who cares for young carers? (1994) (7)
Gender, Media and New Media Methods (2018) (6)
Using theory to escape the descriptive impasse (2010) (6)
Towards Cultural Competence: How Incorporating Māori Values Could Benefit New Zealand Sport (2014) (6)
Bringing socially-critical pedagogies to life through stories (2021) (5)
Extending understandings of risk in organised sport (2020) (4)
Reconceptualizing Teacher Identity: Teachers’ Becoming in the Dynamic Complexity of Teaching Situations (2020) (4)
Playing to win or trying your best: Media represtations of national anxieties over the role of sport participation during the 2002 Commonwealth Games (2016) (4)
Battered in the Media: The Value of Theorizing as a Method for Lessening the Pain of Lived Experience (2014) (4)
As Kiwi as? Contestation over the place of men’s football in New Zealand culture (2015) (4)
Diaspora and global sports migration: a case study in the British and New Zealand context (2010) (3)
New Rules for New Times: Sportswomen and Media Representation in the Third Wave (2015) (3)
Dancing With Derrida: Deconstructing Sportswomen’s Performances on Dancing with the Stars and Mira Quien Baila (2017) (3)
The Big Picture: Data Comparisons and Implications (2010) (3)
The Case for Faction as a Potent Method for Integrating Fact and Fiction in Research (2019) (3)
Netball (2019) (2)
The Olympics and Indigenous Peoples (2012) (2)
Terra Ludus: A Novel about Media, Gender and Sport (2016) (2)
Title IX: 21 Years of Progress? (1993) (2)
Reaction and Response to Resisting the Canon: Feminist Cultural Studies as a Potential Future Direction (1993) (2)
The Rugby World Cup Experience (2017) (2)
Lingering effects of sponsor transgression against a national fan base: the importance of respect in relationship management (2021) (2)
Content Analysis, Liberal Feminism and the Importance of Mapping the Media Terrain (2010) (2)
Sport and Postmodern Times (1998) (1)
Down the Runway (2016) (1)
Sportswomen in the Media (2017) (1)
Some structural problems of the Marfa Basin (1981) (1)
Claiming space in sport: Opening wide the doors to sporting success (2008) (1)
What we talk about when we talk about the locker room: Women sportswriters' stories (1995) (1)
Back to Terra Ludus (2016) (1)
Netball : Carving out media and corporate success in the game for all girls (2019) (1)
Welcome to the Table: A Bourdieusian Take on Gifted New Zealand Young Women (2021) (1)
play-by-play of race Marking the boundaries of the 'normal' in televised sports: the (2009) (0)
Learners and mobile devices - a community of practice case study (2014) (0)
Introduction to special section: Bodies in motion: Sport, health, physical activity and physical education (2016) (0)
Multiple meanings in a physical activity class: University student interpretations (2017) (0)
Enhancing the Creative Organisational Skills of Learners through Still Life Drawing (2018) (0)
No Rest for the Wicked (2016) (0)
The analysis of thrust reversal performance (1983) (0)
The tension of attention: What it means to be a gifted and talented girl in a social media-saturated world (2013) (0)
Manliness and mountaineering: Sir Edmund Hillary as New Zealand adventurer and male icon (2015) (0)
Critical discourse analysis (2017) (0)
“Mediating” National Anxieties via Stereotyping the French “Threatening Other” (2018) (0)
Biographies of the authors (2017) (0)
End of an Era (2016) (0)
WAIKATO JOURNAL OF EDUCATION (2005) (0)
Back to Normality (2016) (0)
Back on the Court (2016) (0)
Eat Shit and Die (2016) (0)
Stories from an Academic Life: Reflections on Being/Doing/Thinking/Teaching in Sociology of Sport (2017) (0)
AUDIO-VISUAL REVIEW (1999) (0)
Reclaiming Our Voices (2014) (0)
Media and information literacy: A 21st century human right? (2015) (0)
Thanks to guest editors, manuscript reviewers, and student presentation reviewers (2019) (0)
A Spy in the House that Ruth Built, written and produced by Vanalyne Green (1999) (0)
It’s All Alright (2016) (0)

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