Research

This page is a repository of my academic work. Links for each published article are provided as they become available. If you do not have access, feel free to contact me and I’ll be happy to provide a copy.

I specialize in qualitative methods. My research agenda is centered on media representations, media sociology and sport communication.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

Ferrucci, P. & Figueroa, E.J. (in press) “‘At this point, I have no idea’: Determining a sports journalist in the 2020s. Journalism, 0(0).

Figueroa, E.J. & Ferrucci, P. (in press) “It’s a problem for all of us”: Discursively explaining the destruction of sports journalism. Journal of Sports Media, 19(2).

Figueroa, E. J., Canella, G., & Baines, A. (2025). Organizing solidarity: Newsroom unions, gendered Labor and professional Identity. Journalism Practice, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2025.2460559

Figueroa, E.J., (2024) Esports events & hegemonic masculinity: Reflections on participant-observation at Evolution Championship Series 2019. Emotion, Space & Society, 53.

Figueroa, E. J., & Baines, A. (2024). Feminist empowerment through labor organizing: In-depth interviews with female labor union organizers at American newspapers. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241276173

Figueroa, E. J., Peña, V., & Vasudevan, K. (2024). “The Planet’s Champion” Daniel Bryan: How WWE Uses Sport, Neoliberalism and Colorblind Ideology in Professional Wrestling Narratives. Communication & Sport, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241268130

Figueroa, E. J. (2024). “If I tweeted like that, it’s entirely possible I’d get fired”: Sports journalists’ discourse of Jemele Hill versus Donald Trump. Feminist Media Studies, 24(4), 818-834.

Peña, V., Grubic, A., Figueroa, E. J., & Bock, M. A. (2023). The blame game: How video evidence changes narratives of misogynistic violence in sports discourse. Feminist Media Studies, 23(8), 3942-3958.

Figueroa, E. J. (2022). Casting heroes and victims of disaster events: Representations of race and gender in Hurricane Harvey front page news images. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 39(5), 455-471.

Ittefaq, M., Abwao, M., Baines, A., Belmas, G., Kamboh, S. A., & Figueroa, E. J. (2022). A pandemic of hate: Social representations of COVID-19 in the media. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 22(1), 225-252.

Graber, S. M., Figueroa, E. J., & Vasudevan, K. (2020). Oh, say, can you kneel: A critical discourse analysis of newspaper coverage of Colin Kaepernick’s racial protest. Howard Journal of Communications, 31(5), 464-480.

Figueroa, E. J. (2020). News organizations, ideology, and work routines: A multi-level analysis of environmental journalists. Journalism, 21(10), 1486-1501.

Bock, M. A., Cueva Chacón, L. M., Jung, H., Sturm, H. A., & Figueroa, E. J. (2018). The faces of local TV news in America: youth, whiteness, and gender disparities in station publicity photos. Feminist Media Studies, 18(3), 440-457.

Bock, M. A., & Figueroa, E. J. (2018). Faith and reason: An analysis of the homologies of Black and Blue Lives Facebook pages. New Media & Society, 20(9), 3097-3118.