Hi Everyone.
In preparation for my proposal pitch next week, I thought I post this recent article. Since my project focuses on gender disparity in professional wrestling, I would like to draw interest for my project by looking at how wrestling can be used to study and teach other subjective matters such as English and Math. Also, how it can empower youth. Some or all of you might not watch wrestling or know much about it but maybe some of the subjects matters currently revolving around it may interest you.
The second article displays the audience race composition across multiple wrestling promotions from 2021-2023. This is a great example of how I envision the data viz part of the project but with the focus on gender disparity/composition instead of race.
It’s interesting how all these things started to take form in 2021, which was about the same time I started watching wrestling after about a 15 year hiatus. Although my knowledge of wrestling may seem that I am a longtime expert. I started to watch it 3.5 years ago and just recently started involving it in my scholar works as of 2023. Wrestling as a teaching tool is fairly new and about the same time it seems interest around the subject of professional wrestling has started to blossom outside its sports entertainment lens and into a subject matter that can be also be studied, especially within the field of digital humanities.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Kind Regards,
MB
