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Kerry R. McGannon

Researcher at Laurentian University

Publications -  135
Citations -  5121

Kerry R. McGannon is an academic researcher from Laurentian University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sport psychology & Athletes. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 129 publications receiving 3936 citations. Previous affiliations of Kerry R. McGannon include Capital District Health Authority & University of Michigan.

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Social media for health promotion: What messages are women receiving about cardiovascular disease risk by the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation?:

TL;DR: Constructions (re)presented on Facebook of ‘typical’ women at risk and risk reduction were problematic as women most at risk were excluded through the use of consumerist, medicalized identities which also excluded promotion of healthy behaviour changes.
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Extreme Sport, Identity, and Well-Being: A Case Study and Narrative Approach to Elite Skyrunning

TL;DR: In this paper, a case-study approach grounded in narrative inquiry was used to explore identity meanings of one elite extreme-sport athlete (i.e., skyrunner Kilian Jornet) in relation to well-being.
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Control, consent and complicity in the coaching of elite women’s cycling in Australia: a media analysis

TL;DR: In this article, a thematic analysis of six online cycling magazine articles and their representations of the Australian women's elite cycling development camp was analysed to explore athletic abuse and the (re)production of coaching practices using Bourdieusian theory.
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Are you ‘woman enough’ to control your leading cause of death?: an ethnographic content analysis of women’s cardiovascular disease and identities in media narratives

TL;DR: The Heart Truth campaign was implemented in the United States by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 2002 to increase women's awareness of heart disease and encourage risk reduction of cardiovascular disease.