Monday, March 21, 5:30-7:30 pm

How does television shape our perceptions of sport, and the experience of the sport spectator, for good or bad?  King Kaufman, Wayne Norman, and the Franklin Humanities Institute Working Group on Sport discussed the role of media in sport.

What makes sports spectatorship a worthy human experience (like appreciating the performing arts), and how might broadcasters enhance it? If you were appointed Czar of ESPN, what would you change first? Is social media democratizing the experience of sport, linking athletes directly to fans and fans to each other?

Discussion Participants:
King Kaufman
Sports columnist, most recently with Salon.com and Bleacher Report.com

Wayne Norman
Mackowski Professor of Ethics in the Kenan Institute for
Ethics and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Cosponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute Working Group on Sport. This was the final event in the Institute’s 2010-2011 What is Ethics? seminar series, Elevating the Game: A Series on Sport.