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Social Media Policies in Intercollegiate Athletics: The Speech and Privacy Rights of Student-Athletes
Focusing on the issue of institutional control versus student-athlete rights as students, this paper examines the regulation of student-athletes' social media usage by athletic departments. A central focus of the paper is the consideration of laws passed in 12 states since 2012 that limit the authority of colleges and universities to monitor students' social media activities, with much of the impetus for these laws motivated by the treatment of the student-athlete population