Fantasy Baseball Forums on Rotoworld: Media Experiment

Chris Jeter
Media Ethnography
Published in
2 min readMay 5, 2017

All of these photos are screenshots of posts in a forum on rotoworld.com, discussing fantasy baseball. In the pictures provided, many of the posters are asking for tips for possible trades in their respective fantasy baseball leagues. This post plays into the additional screen work fantasy players engage in along with the expansion of their social outreach. While traditional fantasy games tend to be made up of a group of friends and is an extension of their social interaction, forums like these also develop there own sort of community if a poster interacts with others in the message boards long enough.

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Chris Jeter
Media Ethnography

Student at UMBC majoring in Media and Communication Studies. Hopeful sports journalist.