RESEARCH

overview

Most of my work is focused at the intersection of journalism & media, sports, culture, and politics. Within that, I have studied media coverage of athlete activism, media representation and discourse around race and gender, and journalism ideology and practice.

Below you’ll find my published academic work. Please contact me if you would like access to one of these studies.

  • Communication and Sport cover page

    Crowe, P. & Peña, V. (2024).

    Playing (& smoking) by the rules: Sports media’s racialized coverage of athlete drug use.

  • SSJ Cover

    Peña, V. (2024)

    All the right questions: Exploring racial stereotypes in sports press conferences

  • Peña, V. & Bock, M. (2024)

    Questioning sports journalists: Stereotypes, work routines, and color-blind racism in sports press conferences

  • JMCQ Journal Cover

    Scott, A. & Peña, V. (2023)

    Who is Worthy of a Name? Identity, Naming, and Social Difference in News Images’ Captions

  • Peña, Malthouse, & Mersey (2023)

    Churning off the news: An analysis of newspaper subscriber churn across digital devices

  • Whipple, K., Graber, S., & Peña, V. (2022)

    “We F—ing Got Osuna”: Examining the maintenance of patriarchy and journalistic routines in a Major League Baseball clubhouse

  • Peña, Grubic, Figueroa, & Bock (2022)

    The Blame Game: A discourse analysis surrounding domestic violence images in sport

  • Peña, V., & Scott, A. (2022)

    Naked function, athletic form: Acceptable sexuality and the myth of empowerment in ESPN’s Body Issue

  • Peña, V. (2022)

    Fairness, without the inclusion: A media discourse analysis of trans sports bans in the U.S.

  • Peña, V. (2022)

    Answering the Call: Maya Moore, Religion, and the Framing of Athlete Activism

  • Peña, V., & Montiel Valle, D. (2022)

    “Screw the pandemic, I had to show up”: Latino/a Experience and Racial Activism During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Brown-Devlin, N., Devlin, M., & Peña, V. (2022).

    Championship and Sponsor Analysis in Intercollegiate Athletics: A Case Study Examining Identification, Expectations, and Game Outcomes on Event Sponsorship Evaluations.

  • Peña, V. (2021)

    From protest to movement: A longitudinal content analysis of ESPN’s Colin Kaepernick’s coverage.