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Our qualitative study explores the lives of college student athletes and their use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as they plan their transition from student life to life after graduation. While ICTs such as social media, smartphones, and the internet are becoming more ubiquitous on college campuses and embedded within daily routines, student athletes contend with finding the appropriate information at the right time to navigate through critical life choices. In a thematic analysis of 15 interviews with U.S. student athletes, we uncover factors that affect ICT use in both their athletic and academic environments. We discuss ICTs as transition mediaries and present implications for college athletics programs to improve the holistic student athlete experience and the transition beyond college.
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In this study, all references to football are attributed to American football, also known as gridiron football.
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We thank our colleagues Kayla Booth, Anthony Pinter, Rachel Simons, and Mike Depew of the iSchool Inclusion Institute for their feedback of earlier drafts of this work. This research is funded in part by the Andrew Mellon Foundation.
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Grimaldi, V., Sullivan, J., Figueroa, J., Dosono, B. (2019). From Gridiron Gang to Game Plan: Impact of ICTs on Student Athlete Information Seeking Practices, Routines, and Long-Term Goals. In: Taylor, N., Christian-Lamb, C., Martin, M., Nardi, B. (eds) Information in Contemporary Society. iConference 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11420. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15742-5_29
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