Blog Moments with Brylie

“Before” Method Section   The data collection process will focus on the Instagram account "TheHiddenOpponent". The account primarily features posts related to mental health, wellness, and overcoming challenges in athletics. To ensure a comprehensive analysis, I will gather data spanning from the last year. (April 2023-April 2024) In order to gauge users' responses accurately, I plan on using sentiment analysis on the selected comments. I will employ a sentiment analysis model tailored to social media data, enabling the classification of comments into positive, negative, or neutral sentiments.   Sampling Strategy:  Since this account is fairly active on Instagram, there is likely a plethora of posts I could choose from to analyze. Therefore, I plan on analyzing the 4 posts with the most interactions from the last year. So this means posts with a lot of likes or comments. I feel this will provide me with the most amount of data to analyze. I will then look at a range of 4-8...

Mental health in college sports has gathered increasing attention in recent years, with growing recognition of the unique stressors and challenges faced by student-athletes. The emergence of online platforms as a space for discourse presents an opportunity to examine how mental health issues within this context are portrayed, discussed, and perceived. Throughout this lit review, I will discuss what we already know about stress causing mental health issues within the world of sports. Then I will deep dive into the stigma surrounding mental health in sports and discuss why it needs to be broken. Lastly, I will provide information about the Instagram account I wish to analyze and why my work needs to be done.    Stress in College Athletics When we look at mental health within college sports, information regarding their intense amount of stress is prevalent. College is a stressful time in general. Most students often struggle to navigate their way through a new environment. I...

Throughout the semester in Dr. Vrooman’s Social Media and Society class, we have discussed a variety of topics related to our phones and social media. Therefore, I wanted to take what we have learned and apply it to some real-life examples.   Thanks to the senior thesis class, I have recently been researching why the mental health of college athletes is suffering. After being involved in both the research of athletes and mental health, as well as the discussion of how social media plays a vital role in our lives, I have come across an account that advocates for student-athletes and mental health.  So, for my project, I want to analyze the Instagram account TheHiddenOpponent, and see how people respond to the posts. I mainly want to look at the posts and then analyze the comments to see if people are responding positively or negatively to these posts.                                    ...

  Hello and welcome to Blog Moments with Brylie! I am Brylie and I am currently a communications major and volleyball player at Texas Lutheran University! This blog is a place where I will be posting all my pieces that lead up to the final project in Dr. Vrooman's Social Media and Society class. I'm excited for y'all to read my work!